 | Francis Bacon - 1876 - 504 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... | |
 | Wisconsin Academy of Sciences, Arts, and Letters - 1876 - 636 pages
...Lord Bacon speaks thus of the influence of poetry: " Poetry serveth and conferreth to magnanimity, and therefore it was ever thought to have some participation...divineness, because it doth raise and erect the mind, by submitting the shows of things, to the desires of the mind. Milton speaks of, "our sage and serious... | |
 | Francis Bacon (visct. St. Albans.) - 1877 - 782 pages
...variations : so as it appeareth that poesy serveth and confcrreth 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... | |
 | Elizabeth Barrett Browning - 1878 - 270 pages
...position. NOTE (in}. to trace Nature's ideal form in Nature's place. Lord Bacon says of Poetry, that "it 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 ; whereas Reason doth buckle and bow the... | |
 | Elizabeth Barrett Browning - 1878 - 264 pages
...position. NOTE (m). ... to trace Nature's ideal form in Nature's place, Lord Bacon says of Poetry, that "it 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; whereas Reason doth buckle and bow the... | |
 | William Parsons Atkinson - 1878 - 74 pages
...Whether we call it, with Aristotle, imitation; whether we say more worthily, with Lord Bacon, " that 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... | |
 | Elizabeth Barrett Browning - 1878 - 272 pages
...position. NOTE (m\ to trace Nature's ideal form in Nature's place. Lord Bacon says of Poetry, that "it 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; whereas Reason doth buckle and bow the... | |
 | Elizabeth Barrett Browning - 1878 - 270 pages
...position. NOTE (in). to trace Nature's ideal form in Nature's place. Lord Bacon says of Poetry, that "it 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 ; whereas Reason doth buckle and bow the... | |
 | Samuel Davey - 1879 - 302 pages
...appeareth that poesy serveth and conferreth to magnanimity and 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... | |
 | Paul Stapfer - 1880 - 428 pages
...them more just in retribution and more according to revealed providence. . . . And therefore 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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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. 
