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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. "
Works: Collected and Edited by James Spedding, Robert Leslie Ellis, and ... - Page 348
by Francis Bacon - 1857
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Q. Horatii Flacci Epistolae Ad Pisones, Et Augustum: With an ..., Volume 2

Horace - 1766 - 282 pages
...effential note of this part of learning — THAT IT SUBMITS THE SHEWS. OF THINGS TO THE DESIRES OF THE MIND : WHEREAS REASON DOTH: BUCKLE AND BOW THE MIND UNTO THE NATURE OF THINGS. For to gratify tie dejires of the mind, is to PLEASE : Pleafure then, in the idea of Lord Bacon, is...
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Q. Horatii Flacci Epistolae Ad Pisones, Et Augustum, Volume 2

Horace - 1776 - 280 pages
...the efiential note of this part of learning — THAT IT SUBMITS THE SHEWS OF THINGS TO THE DESIRES OF THE MIND : WHEREAS REASON DOTH BUCKLE AND BOW THE MIND UNTO THE K 4 NATURE NATURE OF THINGS. For to gratify the defires of the mind, is to PLEASE : Pleafurj then,...
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Critical works

Richard Hurd - 1811 - 390 pages
...the essential note of this part of learning — THAT IT SUBMITS THE SHEWS OF THINGS TO THE DESIRES OF THE MIND: WHEREAS REASON DOTH BUCKLE AND BOW THE MIND UNTO THE NATURE OF THINGS. For to gratify the desires of the mind} is to PLEASE: Pleasure then, in the B 2 idea of Lord Bacon,...
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The Descent of Liberty: A Mask

Leigh Hunt - 1815 - 156 pages
...diyineness, 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." BACON. I '• • . _fi. il l|,j ,' i!• if Ililf.' '; . ,', , . r- «, I . I ;i'-"i V1 r <••'•»...
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The Works of Francis Bacon, Volume 1

Francis Bacon (visct. St. Albans.) - 1819 - 648 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...hath with music, it hath had access and estimation in rode times and barbarous regions, where other learning stood excluded. The division of poesy, which...
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The North American Review, Volume 56

1843 - 706 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." — Advancement of Learning, pp. 142, 143. After listening to the music of such words, it seems like...
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The Works of Francis Bacon: Baron of Verulam, Viscount St. Albans ..., Volume 1

Francis Bacon - 1824 - 642 pages
...because 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...hath with music, it hath had access and estimation in rudfe time* and barbarous regions, where other learning stood excluded. The division of poesy, which...
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Examples of English Prose: From the Reign of Elizabeth to the Present Time ...

George Walker - 1825 - 668 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...barbarous regions, where other learning stood excluded. ******** In this third part of learning, which is poesy, I can report no deficience. For being as a...
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The Works of Francis Bacon: Lord Chancellor of England, Volume 2

Francis Bacon - 1825 - 524 pages
...mind; whereas reason doth buckle and bow the mind into the nature of things.* Poesy joined with music hath had access and estimation in rude times and barbarous regions, where other learning stood excluded. 5. Division of poesy. 1 . Common — the same as in history. 2. Proper division. 1. Narrative or heroical....
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The Athenaeum, Volume 2

1828 - 268 pages
...divineness j 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.' Nothing was ever written on the subject which contained a finer or more philosophical description of...
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