 | Johann Wolfgang von Goethe - 1847 - 366 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... | |
 | Henrietta Joan Fry - 1848 - 304 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... | |
 | Edwin Percy Whipple - 1848 - 372 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... | |
 | 1848 - 622 pages
...poesy serveth and conferreth to magnanimity, morality, and to delectation ; and therefore it was even 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... | |
 | James Barry, John Opie, Henry Fuseli - 1848 - 586 pages
...variations. So as it appeared! that poesie 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 show of things to the desires... | |
 | Henry Wright Phillott - 1849 - 224 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... | |
 | John Harris - 1849 - 526 pages
...them more just in retribution, and more according to revealed Providence. And therefore it was even 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." In the light of these views, we see... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1850 - 590 pages
...variations : so as it appeareth that poesy serveth and conferreth to magnanimity, morality, and to y lord ad castigaПопет, et non ad destructionem,...indeed she had often repeated the same phrase before: by submitting the shows of things to the desires of the mind ; whereas reason doth buckle and bow the... | |
 | J. D. Bell - 1850 - 488 pages
...unspotted from the world. " So it appeareth," says Lord Bacon, " that poetry serveth and conferreth to magnanimity, morality, and delectation; and, therefore,...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,... | |
 | Maria Georgina Shirreff Grey, Emily Anne Eliza Shirreff - 1851 - 496 pages
...poesy serveth and conferreth to magnanimity, morality, and to delectation. And, therefore, it was even thought to have some participation of 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... | |
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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. 
