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 | George Dyer - English poetry - 1812 - 240 pages
...appeareth that poesy serveth and conserved! to magnanimity, morality, and delectation. And, therefore, it was ever thought to have some participation of divineness, because it doth raise and erect the mind; whereas reason doth buckle and bow the mind to the nature of things *." I close these testimonies,... | |
 | Sir Egerton Brydges - Essays - 1813 - 338 pages
...place, " that Poesy serveth, and conferreth to magnanimity, morality, and delectation ; and therefore it was ever thought to have some participation of divineness,...doth raise and erect the mind, by submitting , the shews of things to the desires of the mind ; whereas reason doth humble and bow the mind to the nature... | |
 | Leigh Hunt - English poetry - 1815 - 160 pages
...that Pob esy serveth and conferreth to magnanimity, morality, and to delectation. And therefore it was ever thought to have some participation of divineness,...it doth raise and erect the mind by submitting the shews of things to the desires of the mind, whereas reason doth buckle and bow the mind unto the nature... | |
 | England - 1865 - 790 pages
...absolute variety, than can be found in the nature of things" i Where, in fine, is the art -creation that " doth raise and erect the mind by submitting the show of things to the desires of the mind" ? It must be confessed that the products of modern art, when contrasted with the soul -moving... | |
 | England - 1865 - 804 pages
...than can be found in the nature of things" 1 Where, in fine, is the art - creation that " doth raiae and erect the mind by submitting the show of things to the desires of the mind" : It must be confessed that the products of modern art, when contrasted with the soul -moving... | |
 | Francis Bacon (visct. St. Albans.) - 1819 - 648 pages
...appeareth that poesy serveth and conferreth to magnanimity, morality, and to delectation. And therefore it was ever thought to have some participation of divineness,...it doth raise and erect the mind, by submitting the shews of things to the desires of the mind ; whereas reason doth buckle and bow the mind unto the nature... | |
 | North American review and miscellaneous journal - 1843 - 706 pages
...appeareth, poesy serveth and conferreth to magnanimity, morality, and to delectation. And, therefore, it was ever thought to have some participation of divineness,...it doth raise and erect the mind, by submitting the shows of things to the desires of the mind ; whereas reason doth buckle and bow the mind unto the nature... | |
 | Francis Bacon - English essays - 1824 - 642 pages
...appeareth that poesy serveth and conferreth to magnanimity, morality, and to delectation. And therefore it was ever thought to have some participation of divineness,...it doth raise and erect the mind, by submitting the shows of things to the desires of thfe mind ; whereas reason doth buckle and bow the mind unto the... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1825 - 524 pages
...appeareth that, poesy serveth and conferreth to magnanimity, morality, and to delectation. And therefore it was ever thought to have some participation of divineness,...it doth raise and erect the mind, by submitting the shews of things to the desires of the mind ; whereas reason doth buckle and bow the mind unto the nature... | |
 | George Walker - English prose literature - 1825 - 668 pages
...appeareth that poesy serveth and conferreth to magnanimity, morality, and to delectation. And therefore it was ever thought to have some participation of divineness,...it doth raise and erect the mind, by submitting the shews of things to the desires of the mind ; whereas reason doth buckle and bow the mind unto the nature... | |
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