 | Charles Wegener - 1992 - 244 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... | |
 | Arthur Davis - 1996 - 374 pages
...alternative variations. So 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... | |
 | Philipp Wolf - 1998 - 364 pages
...retribution, and more according to revealed providence (Bacon 1963, III, 343). Und deshalb, so Bacon weiter, 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... | |
 | Connie Robertson - 1998 - 686 pages
...of history which have casually escaped the shipwreck of time. 678 The Advancement of Learning Poesy embrance. 5485 Letter to John Taylor If poetry comes not as naturally as the leaves to a tree it had by submitting the shows of things to the desires of the mind; whereas reason doth buckle and bow the... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 2002 - 868 pages
...as it appeareth that poesy serveth and conferreth0 to magnanimity,0 morality, and to delectation.0 And therefore it was ever thought to have some participation of divineness, because it doth raise and erect0 the mind, by submitting the shews0 of things to the desires of the mind; whereas reason doth... | |
 | Tim Milnes - 2003 - 294 pages
...His attitude to the argument from inspiration is, in this context, unsurprising: poetry, he notes, '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... | |
 | Jonathan Dollimore - 2004 - 420 pages
...empirical reality: 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... | |
 | Alan Shepard, Stephen David Powell Powell - 2004 - 324 pages
...1605, Francis Bacon stresses the visual and heuristic power of poetry when he observes that poetry "was ever thought to have some participation of divineness, because it doth raise and erect the lDescartes, Les meditations, p. 440. 2Plato, Phaedrus, p. 521. 3Sidney, Defence of Poetry, p. 345.... | |
 | Émilien Mohsen - 2005 - 628 pages
...agreable to the merits of virtue and vice, therefore poesy feigns them more just in retribution ... . And therefore it was ever thought to have some participation...of divineness, because it doth raise and erect the mind.259 The matter cannot be easily settled, however, as whether to consider Spenser, in The Faerie... | |
 | Bidyut Chakrabarty - 2004 - 192 pages
...more exact goodness, and a more absolute variety, than can be found in the nature of things.' 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. 
