 | Henry Norman Hudson - 1881 - 104 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; 9 whereas reason doth buckle 10 and bow... | |
 | Charles Francis Richardson - 1881 - 236 pages
...it. Whether we call it, with Aristotle, imitation; whether we say more worthily, with 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... | |
 | Charles Francis Richardson - 1881 - 108 pages
...it. Whether we call it, with Aristotle, imitation; whether we say more worthily, with Bacon, ' that it was ever thought to have some participation of divineness, because it doth nise and erect the mind by submitting the shows of things to the desires of the mind, whereas reason... | |
 | John Brown - 1882 - 506 pages
...it appeareth that Poesy'1 (and the others) ' 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 ' (science, philosophy)... | |
 | Alfred Hix Welsh - 1882 - 558 pages
...therefore poesy inducth them with more rareness, and more unexpected and alternative variations. . . . And therefore it was ever thought to have some participation...divineness, because it doth raise and erect the mind by submittmg the show of things to the desires of the mind.' 2. Precepts for the interpretation of... | |
 | 1882 - 122 pages
...Imprinted for Charles Pratt & Co. At 46 Broadway, near Trinity Church-Yard. CHRISTMAS, 1882. V 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. Lord Bacon—-Advancement of Learning,... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1979 - 434 pages
...bk. II, ch. iv, para. 2: "poesy serveth and conferreth to magnanimity, morality, and to delectations. 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." See JMN, VI, 4 1n, for a list of other... | |
 | Northrop Frye - 1982 - 220 pages
...things doth deny it, the world being in proportion inferior to the soul . . . And therefore (poetry) 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... | |
 | Alvin B. Kernan - 1989 - 384 pages
...heroica!.... 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... | |
 | Heather Dubrow, Richard Strier - 1988 - 387 pages
...heroic and virtuous image which is more satisfying than the imperfections of nature. Therefore poetry "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... | |
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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. 
