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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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Books and Reading: Or, What Books Shall I Read and how Shall I Read Them?

Noah Porter - 1871 - 408 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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Books and Reading: Or, What Books Shall I Read and how Shall I Read Them?

Noah Porter - 1871 - 404 pages
...and conferrcth to magnanimity, morality, and delectation. Ano^ therefore, it was ever thought to bear 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 dotli buckle and bow the...
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The British Controversialist and Literary Magazine

1859 - 446 pages
...therefore poesy endueth 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 unto the desires of the mind ; whereas reason doth buckle and bow...
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Books and Reading, Or, What Books Shall I Read and how Shall I Read Them ?

Noah Porter - 1872 - 426 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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Wordsworth, Shelley, Keats, and Other Essays

David Masson - 1874 - 338 pages
...therefore Poesy endueth 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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Familiar Quotations: Being an Attempt to Trace to Their Source Passages and ...

John Bartlett - 1874 - 798 pages
...retrograde, by a computation backward from ourselves.1 Advancement of Learning. Booh 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 things to the desires of the mind. Ibid. Booh ii. 1 As in the little, so...
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Bacon Versus Shakspere: A Plea for the Defendant

Thomas Davies King - 1875 - 202 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 * Advancement of Learning,...
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Familiar Quotations ...

John Bartlett - 1875 - 890 pages
...sun, which passeth through pollutions and itself remains as pure as before.1 Ibid. Book ii. It [Poesy] was ever 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. IMd. Book 2. Sacred and inspired divinity,...
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Wordsworth, Shelley, Keats, and Other Essays

David Masson - 1875 - 332 pages
...therefore Poesy endueth them with more rareness : so as it appeareth that Poesy serveth and conferreth to magnanimity, morality, and delectation. And, therefore, it was ever thought to ha"»e some participation of divineness, because it doth raise and erect the mind, by submitting the...
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From out the deeps, with intr. and notes by S.W. Christophers

Deeps - 1875 - 358 pages
...and conferreth to magnanimity, morality, and delectation. And, therefore, it was even thought to bear 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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