| David Lester Richardson - 1840 - 364 pages
...ministers of state, as any the most renowned in story." * It appeareth that poetry serveth and conferreth to magnanimity, morality and delectation ; and therefore...divineness, because it doth raise and erect the mind, by submitting the show3 of things to the desires of the mind ; whereas reason doth humble and bow the... | |
| David Lester Richardson - 1840 - 396 pages
...ministers of state, as any the most renowned in story." * It appeareth that poetry serveth and conferreth to magnanimity, morality and delectation ; and therefore...participation of divineness, because it doth raise and erect ttie mind, by submitting the shows of things to the desires of the mind ; whereas reason doth humble... | |
| Francis Bacon (visct. St. Albans.) - 1840 - 244 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... | |
| 1841 - 832 pages
...variations ; so as it appcareth that, poesy serveth and confernth 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... | |
| Samuel Tyler - 1844 - 214 pages
...and more unexpected and alternative variations: so as it appeareth that poesy serveth 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... | |
| Jared Sparks, Edward Everett, James Russell Lowell, Henry Cabot Lodge - 1844 - 548 pages
...poetry comprehends the whole matter. " Poetry 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." Now, Wordsworth, whether he appears... | |
| Royal Society of Edinburgh - 1878 - 830 pages
...as it is useful — that is to say, didactic. It is with a covert sneer that he says : — " Poesy 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... | |
| George Lillie Craik - 1846 - 778 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... | |
| 1847 - 574 pages
...heroical, and enclueth them with more rareness, so as it appeareth that poesy serveth 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... | |
| Johann Wolfgang von Goethe - 1847 - 360 pages
...Olympus assures ? who with gods can unite ?* — 'Tis the Poet, revealing man's soul in its might.f therefore it was ever thought to have some participation of divineness, because it does raise and erect the mind, by submitting the shows of things to the desires of the mind ; whereas... | |
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