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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 shews of things to the desires of the mind ; whereas reason doth buckle and bow the mind unto the nature of things. "
The North American Review - Page 266
1843
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The Definition of Poetry: An Essay

Horace Peters Biddle - 1873 - 40 pages
...in his writings, rather describes the effect of poetry than gives it a definition; for he says that it "doth raise and erect the mind, by submitting the shows of things to the desire of the mind." This remark is profound and accurate, but it is scarcely a correct definition...
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Familiar Quotations: Being an Attempt to Trace to Their Source Passages and ...

John Bartlett - 1874 - 798 pages
...retrograde, by a computation backward from ourselves.1 Advancement of Learning. Booh i. (1605.) It [Poesy] 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. Ibid. Booh ii. 1 As in the little, so in the great world,...
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Familiar Quotations ...

John Bartlett - 1875 - 890 pages
...sun, which passeth through pollutions and itself remains as pure as before.1 Ibid. Book ii. It [Poesy] 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. IMd. Book 2. Sacred and inspired divinity, the sabaoth...
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The Earlier Poems of Elizabeth Barrett Browning, 1826-1833

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...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...
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The Earlier Poems of Elizabeth Barrett Browning, 1826-1833

Elizabeth Barrett Browning - 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...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...
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Poems

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...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...
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The Earlier Poems of Elizabeth Barrett Browning, 1826-1833

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...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...
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Studies in English prose: specimens, with notes, by J. Payne

Joseph Payne - 1881 - 516 pages
...grandly developed there as in the above pected and alternative variations. So aa (that) it appeareth that poesy serveth and conferreth to magnanimity, morality, and to delectation. And therefore it was ever tliought to have some participation of divineness, because it doth raise and erect the mind, by submitting...
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The Choice of Books

Charles Francis Richardson - 1881 - 108 pages
...it. 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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Rab and his friends, and other papers. 12th ed

John Brown - 1882 - 506 pages
...VARIETY, than can be found in the nature of things. So it appeareth that Poesy'1 (and the others) ' serveth and conferreth to magnanimity, morality, and...IT DOTH RAISE AND ERECT THE MIND, BY SUBMITTING THE SHEWS OF THINGS TO THE DESIRES OF THE MIND ; -whereas reason ' (science, philosophy) ' doth buckle...
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