 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 unto the nature of things.  American Anthropologist - Page 1221893Full view - About this book
 | Elizabeth Barrett Browning - 1878 - 264 pages
...position. NOTE (m). ... to trace Nature's ideal form in Nature's place, Lord Bacon says of Poetry, that "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... | |
 | Elizabeth Barrett Browning - English poetry - 1878 - 270 pages
...position. NOTE (in). to trace Nature's ideal form in Nature's place. Lord Bacon says of Poetry, that "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 to the nature... | |
 | Elizabeth Barrett Browning - 1878 - 270 pages
...position. NOTE (in}. to trace Nature's ideal form in Nature's place. Lord Bacon says of Poetry, that "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 to the nature... | |
 | Elizabeth Barrett Browning - English poetry - 1878 - 272 pages
...position. NOTE (m\ to trace Nature's ideal form in Nature's place. Lord Bacon says of Poetry, that "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... | |
 | William Parsons Atkinson - Books and reading - 1878 - 78 pages
...Whether we call it, with Aristotle, imitation ; whether we say more worthily, with Lord Bacon, " that 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... | |
 | Samuel Davey - English literature - 1879 - 302 pages
...appeareth that poesy serveth and conferreth to magnanimity and delectation ; and therefore it was even 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... | |
 | Paul Stapfer - 1880 - 428 pages
...the nature of things. Therefore, because the acts or events of true history have not that magnitude which satisfieth the mind of man, poesy feigneth acts...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... | |
 | Charles Francis Richardson - Best books - 1881 - 236 pages
...Whether we call it, with Aristotle, imitation; whether we say more worthily, with Bacon, ' that 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... | |
 | Henry Norman Hudson - 1881 - 104 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 the mind; 9 whereas reason doth buckle 10 and bow the mind unto the... | |
 | Charles Francis Richardson - Best books - 1881 - 108 pages
...Whether we call it, with Aristotle, imitation; whether we say more worthily, with Bacon, ' that it was ever thought to have some participation of divineness, because it doth nise and erect the mind by submitting the shows of things to the desires of the mind, whereas reason... | |
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