 | Francis Bacon - 1864 - 464 pages
...alternative 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... | |
 | Nathaniel Holmes - 1867 - 670 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... | |
 | John Bartlett - 1868 - 828 pages
...retrograde, by a computation backward from ourselves.1 Advancement of Learning. Book i. (1605.) It [Poesy] was ever thought to have some participation of divineness, because it doth raise and erect the mind, by submitting the shews of tilings to the desires of the mind. Ibid. Book ii. 1 As in the little, so... | |
 | Joseph Payne - 1868 - 530 pages
...seryeth and conferreth to magnanimity, morality, and to delectation. And therefore it was ever taought 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... | |
 | English authors - 1869 - 458 pages
...alternative 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... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1869 - 446 pages
...ernative variations. So as it appeareth that poesy serveth and conferreth to magnanimity, morality, and to delectation. And therefore it was ever thought to...participation of divineness, because it doth raise arid" 'erect.. the_mjnd, _by [ jubmitting the .shgws. of^things to the desires of the mind; whereas... | |
 | 1870 - 604 pages
...second time the words of Bacon, that " Poesy servcth and conferreth to magnanimity, morality, and to delectation. And therefore it was ever thought to have some participation of divineness." What Coleridge says of the writing of poetry must be true of the reading of it. " Poetry has been to... | |
 | Edmund Ollier - 1871 - 648 pages
...goodness, and a more absolute variety, than can be found in the nature of things. And therefore 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... | |
 | Noah Porter - 1871 - 392 pages
...second time the words of Bacon, that " Poesy serveth and conferreth to magnanimity, morality, and to delectation. And therefore it was ever thought to have some participation of divineness." What Coleridge says of the writing of poetry must be true of the reading of it^ " Poetry has been to... | |
 | Noah Porter - 1871 - 406 pages
...rareness and more unexpected and alternate variation: so it appeareth that poesy serveth and conferreth to magnanimity, morality, and delectation. And> therefore, it was ever thought to bear some participation of divineness, because it doth raise and erect the mind, by submitting 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. 
