 | Joseph Payne - 1868 - 530 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...pleasure, joined also with the agreement and " consort '" (connection) it hath with music, it hath had access and estimation in rude times and barbarous regions,... | |
 | English authors - 1869 - 458 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...hath with music, it hath had access and estimation in rude times and barbarous regions, where other learning stood excluded. The division of poesy which... | |
 | Noah Porter - 1871 - 392 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." — On the Advancement of Learning. If Lord Bacon is right then there is nothing in the nature of a... | |
 | Edmund Ollier - 1871 - 648 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." Yes, and the nature of things will not submit to be set aside by the dreams of poetry, or of philanthropists... | |
 | Noah Porter - 1871 - 406 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."—On the Advancement of Learning. If Lord Bacon is right then there is nothing in the nature... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1871 - 544 pages
...divinoness, 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."1 The domain of high poetry is the sublime, the solemn, the terrible, the pathetic, the tender,... | |
 | 1859 - 446 pages
...because it doth raise and erect the mind by submitting the shows of things unto the desires of the mind ; whereas reason doth buckle and bow the mind unto the nature of things. In this part of learning, which is poesy, I can report no deficiencies ; for, being as a plant that... | |
 | Noah Porter - 1872 - 426 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." — On the Advancement of Learning. If Lord Bacon is right then there is nothing in the nature of a... | |
 | David Masson - 1874 - 338 pages
...reference to the imaginaticm, " which faculty submitteth the shows of things to the desires of the mind, whereas reason doth buckle and bow the mind unto the nature of things." Or we may vary the phrase, and, with Coleridge, call it " the vision and faculty divine ; " or, with... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1876 - 504 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...hath with music, it hath had access and estimation in rude times and barbarous regions, where other learning stood excluded. 3. The division of poesy which... | |
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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. 
