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" 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. "
The Works of Francis Bacon ...: Philosophical works - Page 342
by Francis Bacon - 1857
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Beiträge zur Entstehungsgeschichte der neueren Ästhetik

Wilhelm Kuntz - Aesthetics - 1899 - 68 pages
...thought to have some participation of divineness, because it does raise and erect the mind. . . it has had access and estimation in rude times and barbarous regions, where other learning stood excluded 2 ). Wie aber immer da, wo eine ideal hohe Idee von einer Sache stattfindet, man am meisten zu einer...
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A History of Literary Criticism in the Renaissance: With Special Reference ...

Joel Elias Spingarn - Classicism - 1899 - 358 pages
...of divineness, because it doth raise 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." l For the expression of affections, passions, corruptions, and customs, the world is more indebted...
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A History of Literary Criticism in the Renaissance: With Special Reference ...

Joel Elias Spingarn - Criticism - 1899 - 350 pages
...of divineness, because it doth raise 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."1 For the expression of affections, passions, corruptions, and customs, the world is more indebted...
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A History of Literary Criticism in the Renaissance: With Special Reference ...

Joel Elias Spingarn - Criticism - 1899 - 372 pages
...divineness, because it doth raise the mind, by submitting the shows of things to the desires of the mTnd; whereas reason doth buckle and bow the mind unto the nature of things." * For the expression of affections, passions, corruptions, and customs, the world is more indebted...
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The Park Review, Volumes 1-2

1900 - 452 pages
...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. " The historical drama, then, composed of these two elements — history and poetry — is an attempt...
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Battle of Marathon; Essay on mind; Juvenilia; Seraphim, and other poems

Elizabeth Barrett Browning - 1901 - 376 pages
...divineness, because 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 of things. ' ' — Advancement of Learning, Book 2. — EBB~~\ 1048-1056. When god-like Milton . . . When Horace...
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Essays on Poetry

William Hazlitt - English poetry - 1901 - 320 pages
...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." 26- 33- " Our eyes are made the fools." ' Macbeth,' II. i. 44. 27. 3. " That if it would but apprehend...
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The Tragedy of Julius Caesar

William Shakespeare - 1902 - 292 pages
...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." Every point of contrast between history and poetry that Bacon insists upon in this fine passage might...
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The Teaching of English in the Elementary and the Secondary School

Percival Chubb - English language - 1902 - 440 pages
...Kenneth Graham also does in his " Golden Age." 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." Not therefore to cancel this real world of poetry, but to establish it in right and consistent relation...
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A Critical History of English Literature: Shakespeare to Milton, Volume 2

David Daiches - 1979 - 304 pages
...Freudian: "it [poetry] 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." (The dwindling number of those who profess to believe that Bacon wrote Shakespeare's plays might reflect...
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