 And therefore it was ever thought to have some participation of divineness, because 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 into the nature of things.  Bacon: His Writings, and His Philosophy - Page 64by George Lillie Craik - 1846Full view - About this book
 | George Dyer - English poetry - 1812 - 240 pages
...alternative variations ; so that it appeareth that poesy serveth and conserved! to magnanimity, morality, and delectation. And, therefore, it was ever thought to...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,... | |
 | Leigh Hunt - English poetry - 1815 - 160 pages
...more unexpected and alternative variations ; so as it appeareth, that Pob esy serveth and conferreth to magnanimity, morality, and to delectation. And...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... | |
 | Leigh Hunt - English poetry - 1815 - 156 pages
...more unexpected and alternative variations ; so as it appeareth, that Pob esy serveth and conferreth to magnanimity, morality, and to delectation. And...it was ever thought to have some participation of diyineness, because it doth raise and erect the mind by submitting the shews of things to the desires... | |
 | 1828 - 496 pages
...or that equally beautiful and noble sentiment of Bacon, which describes poetry as " having something of divineness ; because it doth raise and erect the...things to the desires of the mind ; whereas reason dolh buckle and bow the mind unto the nature of things." Nothing was ever written on the subject which... | |
 | Francis Bacon (visct. St. Albans.) - 1819 - 648 pages
...and more unexpected and alternative variations : so as it appeareth that poesy serveth and conferreth to magnanimity, morality, and to delectation. And...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... | |
 | Jared Sparks, Edward Everett, James Russell Lowell, Henry Cabot Lodge - American fiction - 1844 - 538 pages
...ideal. Lord Bacon's definition of poetry comprehends the whole matter. " Poetry serveth and conferreth to magnanimity, morality, and to delectation. * And,...submitting the shows of things to the desires of the mind." Now, Wordsworth, whether he appears to sing of the past or the present, is, in reality, singing... | |
 | Sir Egerton Brydges - Essays - 1813 - 338 pages
...appeareth," he adds in another place, " that Poesy serveth, and conferreth to magnanimity, morality, and delectation ; and therefore it was ever thought to have some participation of divineness, be[ cause it doth raise and erect the mind, by submitting ' the shews of things to the desires of the... | |
 | Francis Bacon - English essays - 1824 - 642 pages
...and more unexpected and alternative variations : so as it appeareth that poesy serveth and conferreth to magnanimity, morality, and to delectation. And...by submitting the shows of things to the desires of thfe mind ; whereas reason doth buckle and bow the mind unto the nature of things. And we see, that... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1825 - 524 pages
...and. more unexpected and alternative variations: so as it appeareth that, poesy serveth and conferreth to magnanimity, morality, and to delectation. And...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... | |
 | Francis Bacon - Learning and scholarship - 1825 - 428 pages
...rareness, and more unexpected and alternative variations : so as it appeareth poesy serveth and conferreth to magnanimity, morality, and to delectation. And...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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