 | Charles Francis Richardson - 1881 - 108 pages
...divineness, because it doth nise 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;' whether, in more modern times, we define it, with Shelley, as 'the best and happiest thoughts of the... | |
 | Emelyn W. Washburn - 1882 - 278 pages
...one, that 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." He has here, too, a keen critique, which our modern myth-hunters would do well to read, " that the... | |
 | 1883 - 908 pages
..."it was over thought to have some participation of divineness, because it doth raise and erect the mind, whereas Reason doth buckle and bow the mind unto the nature of things." WL COURTNEY. IRELAND AND THE TORY PARTY. THE Tories have always been regarded as the enemies of nearly... | |
 | Francis Bacon (visct. St. Albans.) - 1884 - 564 pages
...divineness, because 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 of things. The division of poesy, which is aptest in the propriety thereof, besides those divisions which are... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1885 - 436 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... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1885 - 438 pages
...because it doth raise and erect the mind, by submitting the shows of things to the desires of the mindA whereas reason doth buckle and bow the mind unto the...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... | |
 | 1886 - 484 pages
..." 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." Dryden was one of the earliest English writers to use the very word genius in the sense of that which... | |
 | Edward FitzGerald - 1887 - 544 pages
...doth raise and erect the mind," says Bacon, " 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." But Sir Philip Sidney says, the poet shows the " nature of things " as much as the reasoner, though... | |
 | 1888 - 102 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; whether in modern times we define it, with Shelley, as " the best and happiest thoughts of the best... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1871 - 542 pages
...diviueuess, because it doth raise and cruet 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,... | |
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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. 
