 | Noah Porter - 1872 - 426 pages
...and conferreth to magnanimity, morality, and delectation. And, therefore, it was ever thought to bear some participation of divineness, because it doth...buckle and bow the mind unto the nature of things." — On the Advancement of Learning. If Lord Bacon is right then there is nothing in the nature of a... | |
 | 1859 - 446 pages
...serveth and conferreth to magnanimity, morality, and delectation ; and therefore it was ever thought to have some participation of divineness, because...and erect the mind by submitting the shows of things unto the desires of the mind ; whereas reason doth buckle and bow the mind unto the nature of things.... | |
 | Horace Peters Biddle - 1873 - 40 pages
...in his writings, rather describes the effect of poetry than gives it a definition; for he says that it "doth raise and erect the mind, by submitting the shows of things to the desire of the mind." This remark is profound and accurate, but it is scarcely a correct definition... | |
 | Northrop Frye - 1982 - 220 pages
...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 Mind unto the Nature... | |
 | Alvin B. Kernan - 1989 - 384 pages
...serveth and conferreth to magnanimity, morality, and to delectation. And therefore it was ever thought to have some participation of divineness, because...buckle and bow the mind unto the nature of things. In Ephraim Chambers' Cyclopaedia (1728)—which Johnson knew well in connection with his Dictionary,... | |
 | Anne Drury Hall - 2010 - 217 pages
...poetry and prose or between poetic prose and prosaic prose. Poetry, says Bacon, is like "inspiration" because it "doth raise and erect the mind, by submitting...mind; whereas reason doth buckle and bow the mind into the nature of things" (Advancement, 343-44). In the essay "Of Fame," Bacon assaults the language... | |
 | Robert L. Montgomery - 2010 - 229 pages
...original I quote the Pleiade ed. Poetry, according to Bacon, may delude us, "submitting the shews of things to the desires of the mind; whereas reason...buckle and bow the mind unto the nature of things." 13 And to underscore the fairly widespread disposition in the seventeenth century to court a sense... | |
 | Heather Dubrow, Richard Strier - 1988 - 387 pages
...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 mind unto the nature... | |
 | Charles Wegener - 1992 - 244 pages
...serveth and conferreth to magnanimity, morality, and delectation. And therefore it was ever thought to have some participation of divineness, because...reason doth buckle and bow the mind unto the nature of things.3 Here is suggested a relation of the imaginative functioning of the mind to the world the paradigm... | |
 | Heinrich F. Plett - 1994 - 460 pages
...Learning noch deutlicher: "[...] it [ie poesy] doth raise and erect the mind, by submitting the shews of things to the desires of the mind; whereas reason...buckle and bow the mind unto the nature of things." (Ill, 343 f.) Obwohl Bacon solches nicht direkt expliziert, ist zu vermuten, daß seine Sympathie der... | |
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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. 
