 POESY is a part of learning in measure of words for the most part restrained, but in all other points extremely licensed, and doth truly refer to the imagination; which, being not tied to the laws of matter, may at pleasure join that which nature hath...  Litterarhistorische Forschungen - Page 266edited by - 1913Full view - About this book
 | Heather Dubrow, Richard Strier - 1988 - 387 pages
...branch of learning which is "extremely licensed": "[It] doth truly refer to the Imagination, which, being not tied to the laws of matter, may at pleasure...and so make unlawful matches and divorces of things. ... It is ... nothing else but Feigned History."39 Poetic fable seems indeed to be doubly fantastic,... | |
 | Mary Beth Rose - 1989 - 256 pages
...poetry in The Advancement of Learning, for example, he refers it to the faculty of imagination, "which, being not tied to the laws of matter, may at pleasure...and so make unlawful matches and divorces of things" (6: 202). The marital imagery he employs weds the power of poetry to self-indulgence, unnaturalness,... | |
 | Charles Wegener - 1992 - 244 pages
...restrained, but in all other parts extremely licensed, and doth truly refer to the imagination, which, being not tied to the laws of matter, may at pleasure...and so make unlawful matches and divorces of things. (Painters and Poets have always been allowed to take what liberties they dared. [Horace, Ars Poetica])3... | |
 | Robert Alexy, Ralf Dreier - 1993 - 322 pages
...Bacon for instance, assigned it in The Advancement of Learning to the realm of imagination 'which, being not tied to the laws of matter, may at pleasure...and so make unlawful matches and divorces of things' (p. 80). By means of such fictions man tries to compensate for what is lacking in reality. According... | |
 | Kevin Pask - 1996 - 238 pages
...licensed, and doth truly refer to the imagination, which, being not tied to the limits of matter, may of pleasure join that which nature hath severed, and...and so make unlawful matches and divorces of things" (CE, 2:343). 31 The evidence for a formalized club at the Mermaid Tavern is limited to Thomas Coryat's... | |
 | Arthur Davis - 1996 - 374 pages
...restrained; but in all other points extremely licensed, and doth truly refer to the imagination; which, being not tied to the laws of matter, may at pleasure join what nature hath severed, and sever that which nature has joined; and so make unlawful matches and... | |
 | Philipp Wolf - 1998 - 364 pages
...participation of divineness", ist, so Bacon, nicht an die Gesetze der Materie gebunden. Sie kann deshalb at pleasure join that which nature hath severed, and...and so make unlawful matches and divorces of things (Bacon 1962 (18571874, ed. Spedding et al.), III, 343). Der Empirist Bacon setzt die (noch ominösen)... | |
 | Detlev Gohrbandt - 1998 - 320 pages
...Leistung der Tropen, Zusammenhänge herzustellen, die über die Erfahrungswirklichkeit hinausgehen, »[to] join that which nature hath severed, and sever that which nature hath joined« (101). Blumenberg spricht davon, daß bei Bacon der Mensch »zum Werksetzen installiert und legitimiert... | |
 | Desiree Hellegers - 2000 - 250 pages
...restrained, but in all other points extremely licensed, and doth truly refer to the Imagination; which being not tied to the laws of matter, may at pleasure...joined, and so make unlawful matches and divorces of things."11 Bacons identification of poetry with the imagination both masks and reveals his concern... | |
 | Richard Eldridge - 2001 - 268 pages
...restrained, but in all other points extremely licensed, and doth truly refer to the Imagination; which, being not tied to the laws of matter, may at pleasure...and so make unlawful matches and divorces of things. ... [It submits] the shews of things to the desires of the mind, [unlike reason] which doth buckle... | |
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