 | Northrop Frye - Literary Collections - 1982 - 220 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. The sciences, in other words, are primarily concerned with the world as it is: the arts are primarily... | |
 | Robert L. Montgomery - Literary Criticism - 2010 - 229 pages
...Pleiade ed. Poetry, according to Bacon, may delude us, "submitting the shews of things to the desires of the mind; whereas reason doth buckle and bow the mind unto the nature of things." 13 And to underscore the fairly widespread disposition in the seventeenth century to court a sense... | |
 | Alvin B. Kernan - Biography & Autobiography - 1989 - 384 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. In Ephraim Chambers' Cyclopaedia (1728)—which Johnson knew well in connection with his Dictionary,... | |
 | Heather Dubrow, Richard Strier - Literary Criticism - 1988 - 387 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."42 Bacon's defense of poetry starts out, like Spenser's description of the golden age, with... | |
 | Charles Wegener - Philosophy - 1992 - 244 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.3 Here is suggested a relation of the imaginative functioning of the mind to the world the paradigm... | |
 | Heinrich F. Plett - Literary Criticism - 1994 - 460 pages
..."[...] it [ie poesy] 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." (Ill, 343 f.) Obwohl Bacon solches nicht direkt expliziert, ist zu vermuten, daß seine Sympathie der... | |
 | Arthur Davis - Philosophy - 1996 - 374 pages
...submitting the shows of things to the desires of the mind; whereas reason doth buckle and bow the mind to the nature of things. And we see that by these insinuations...barbarous regions, where other learning stood excluded.' (Francis Bacon, The Advancement of Learning, book 2, part 4, iii) This passage at least disproves with... | |
 | Philipp Wolf - Literary Criticism - 1998 - 364 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 (ebd. 343f). Bacons modernitätsevolutionäres Verdienst liegt einerseits in seiner Differenzierung... | |
 | Connie Robertson - Reference - 1998 - 686 pages
...divineness, because it doth raise and erect the mind, by submitting the shows of things to the desires of is true that in the height of enthusiasm I have been cheated into some fine 679 The Advancement of Learning The knowledge of man is as the waters, some descending from above,... | |
 | John Sitter - Literary Criticism - 2001 - 322 pages
...Bacon "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."10 Bacon's noble identification of poetry with what Freud might have regarded as the pleasure... | |
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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. 
