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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. "
The Works of Francis Bacon: Baron of Verulam, Viscount St. Albans, and Lord ... - Page 88
by Francis Bacon - 1824
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A History of Literary Criticism in the Renaissance: With Special Reference ...

Joel Elias Spingarn - 1899 - 350 pages
...divineness, because it doth raise 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 For the expression of affections, passions, corruptions, and customs, the world is more indebted...
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A Critical History of English Literature: Shakespeare to Milton, Volume 2

David Daiches - 1979 - 304 pages
..."it [poetry] 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." (The dwindling number of those who profess to believe that Bacon wrote Shakespeare's plays might reflect...
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Divisions on a Ground: Essays on Canadian Culture

Northrop Frye - 1982 - 220 pages
...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 sciences, in other words, are primarily concerned with the world as it is: the arts are primarily...
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Samuel Johnson & the Impact of Print

Alvin B. Kernan - 1989 - 384 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. In Ephraim Chambers' Cyclopaedia (1728)—which Johnson knew well in connection with his Dictionary,...
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Terms of Response: Language and the Audience in Seventeenth- and Eighteenth ...

Robert L. Montgomery - 2010 - 229 pages
...ed. Poetry, according to Bacon, may delude us, "submitting the shews of things to the desires of the mind; whereas reason doth buckle and bow the mind unto the nature of things." 13 And to underscore the fairly widespread disposition in the seventeenth century to court a sense...
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The Historical Renaissance: New Essays on Tudor and Stuart Literature and ...

Heather Dubrow, Richard Strier - 1988 - 387 pages
...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."42 Bacon's defense of poetry starts out, like Spenser's description of the golden age, with...
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The Discipline of Taste and Feeling

Charles Wegener - 1992 - 244 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.3 Here is suggested a relation of the imaginative functioning of the mind to the world the paradigm...
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Renaissance-Poetik

Heinrich F. Plett - 1994 - 460 pages
...it [ie poesy] 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." (Ill, 343 f.) Obwohl Bacon solches nicht direkt expliziert, ist zu vermuten, daß seine Sympathie der...
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George Grant and the Subversion of Modernity: Art, Philosophy, Politics ...

Arthur Davis - 1996 - 374 pages
...submitting the shows of things to the desires of the mind; whereas reason doth buckle and bow the mind to the nature of things. And we see that by these insinuations...hath with music, it hath had access and estimation in rude times and barbarous regions, where other learning stood excluded.' (Francis Bacon, The Advancement...
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The Wordsworth Dictionary of Quotations

Connie Robertson - 1998 - 686 pages
...divineness, because it doth raise and erect the mind, by submitting the shows of things to the desires of the rue that in the height of enthusiasm I have been cheated into some fine 679 The Advancement of Learning The knowledge of man is as the waters, some descending from above,...
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