 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 2661843Full view - About this book
 | Francis Bacon (visct. St. Albans.) - 1884 - 564 pages
...endueth them with more rareness, and more unexpected and alternative variation : so as it appeareth that poesy serveth and conferreth to magnanimity, morality,...it doth raise and erect the mind, by submitting the show of things to the desires of the mind ; whereas reason doth buckle and bow the mind unto the nature... | |
 | Charles William Bardeen - 1884 - 828 pages
...alternative variations; so as it appeareth that poesy serveth and conferreth to magnanimity, morality, and delectation. And therefore it was ever thought to...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... | |
 | Charles William Bardeen - 1884 - 824 pages
...alternative variations ; so as it appeareth that poesy servetb and conferreth to magnanimity, morality, and delectation. And therefore it was ever thought to...of divineness, because it doth raise and erect the mim i by submitting the shews of things to the desires of the mind ; whereas reason doth buckle and... | |
 | Charles William Bardeen - 1884 - 828 pages
...alternative variations; so as it appeareth that poesy serveth and conferreth to magnanimity, morality, and delectation. And therefore it was ever thought to...of divineness, because it doth raise and erect the miud by submitting the shews of things to the desires of the mind; whereas reason doth buckle and bow... | |
 | Charles William Bardeen - 1884 - 828 pages
...alternative variations ; so as it appeareth that poesy serveth and conferreth to magnanimity, morality, and delectation. And therefore it was ever thought to have some participation of divineuess, because it doth raise and erect the mind by submitting the shews of things to the desires... | |
 | John Francis Xavier O'Conor - 1885 - 64 pages
...of imagination. In the words of Bacon, " Poetry serveth and conferreth to magnanimity, morality and delectation, and therefore it was ever thought to have some participation of Divineness." Or, in the still briefer and more beautilul language of Festus : " Poetry is itself a thing of God.... | |
 | 1886 - 484 pages
...of the body to the enjoying its own divine essence ; " and on like ground Bacon thought it partook 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... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1887 - 882 pages
...and more unexpected and alternative variations. So as it appeareth that poesy serveth and conferrcth to magnanimity, morality, and to delectation. And...it doth raise and erect the mind, by submitting the shews of things to the desires o£ 1 De Aug. il. 13. The arrangement is partly altered in the translation,... | |
 | Anna Lydia Ward - 1889 - 724 pages
...and philosophy will be replaced by poetry. 4146 Matthew Arnold : Ward's English Poets. Introduction. It was ever thought to have some participation of divineness, because it dotli raise and erect the mind, by submitting the shows of things to the desires of the mind. 4147... | |
 | John Brown - 1890 - 356 pages
...VARIETY, than can be found in the nature of things. So it appearelh that Poesy" (and the others') " serveth and conferreth to magnanimity , morality,...to delectation* And therefore it was ever thought lohave some participation ofdivineness because IT DOTH RAISE AND ERECT THE MIND, BY SUBMITTING THE... | |
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