 | 1825 - 412 pages
...according to revealed Providence : so as it appeareth, poesy serveth to magnanimity, to morality, and to delectation. And therefore it was ever thought to have some participation of divineness, because it loth raise and erect the mind, by subjniting the shows of things to the desires of he mind ; whereas... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1826 - 626 pages
...variations : so as it appeareth that poesy serveth and conferreth to magnanimity, morality, and to delectation. And therefore it was ever thought to...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... | |
 | James Barry - 1831 - 228 pages
...variations. So as it appeareth that poesy serveth and conferreth to magnanimitie, moralitie, and to delectation. And therefore it was ever thought to have some participation of divinenesse, because it doth raise and erect the mind, by submitting the shew of things to the desires... | |
 | Robert Montgomery - 1832 - 330 pages
...vol. i. page 330, End edit. and more heroical:—so it appeareth that poesy serveth to and conferreth to magnanimity, morality, and delectation. And therefore...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... | |
 | Francis Bacon, Basil Montagu - 1825 - 538 pages
...variations: so as it appeareth that, poesy serveth and conferreth to magnanimity, morality, and to delectation. And therefore it was ever thought to...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... | |
 | 1835 - 616 pages
...predominates to realize all the high objects of Poetical composition. For, as says Lord Bacon, Poetry ' 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... | |
 | 1837 - 352 pages
...alternative variations ; so as it appeareth that poesy serveth and conferred] to magnanimity, morality and to delectation. And therefore it was ever thought to have some participation of dirineness, because it doth raise and erect the mind, by submitting the shows of things to the desires... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1838 - 898 pages
...variations : so as it appeareth that poesy serveth and conferreth to magnanimity, morality, and to delectation. And therefore it was ever thought to...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... | |
 | James Douglas (of Cavers.) - 1839 - 404 pages
...that Poesy servcth and conferreth to magnanimity, morality, and delectation. And therefore it was even 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... | |
 | 1839 - 538 pages
...that the light of truth was in his heart, " serveth and conferreth to magnanimity, morality, and to delectation. And, therefore, it was ever thought to have some participation of divineness, bccauseit doth raise and erect the mind, by submitting the shews of things to tfiedesires of the mind,"... | |
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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. 
