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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. "
Poetics; Or a Series of Poems and Disquisitions on Poetry ... - Page 96
by George Dyer - 1812
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Literary Leaves, Volume 2

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...
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Literary Leaves; Or, Prose and Verse Chiefly Written in India, Volume 2

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...
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Essays; or, Counsels civil and moral, and the two books Of the proficience ...

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...
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The Dublin University Magazine: A Literary and Political Journal, Volume 18

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...
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A Discourse of the Baconian Philosophy

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...
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The North American Review, Volume 59

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...
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Proceedings, Volume 9

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...
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Bacon: His Writings, and His Philosophy, Volume 1

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...
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The North British review

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...
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Faust, a tragedy, tr. by capt. [C.H.] Knox

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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