 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.  Essays and Reviews - Страница 262по Edwin Percy Whipple - 1853Пълен достъп - Информация за книгата
 | Edmund Ollier - 1871 - 648 страници
...goodness, and a more absolute variety, than can be found in the nature of things. And therefore poetry was ever thought to have some participation of divineness,...submitting the shows of things to the desires of the mind, whereas reason doth buckle and bow the mind unto the nature of things." Yes, and the nature of... | |
 | Noah Porter - 1871 - 392 страници
...shall not argue over again. We are contented to cite a second time the words of Bacon, that " Poesy serveth and conferreth to magnanimity, morality, and...thought to have some participation of divineness." What Coleridge says of the writing of poetry must be true of the reading of it^ " Poetry has been to... | |
 | Noah Porter - 1871 - 406 страници
...shall not argue over again. We are contented to cite a second time the words of Bacon, that " Poesy serveth and conferreth to magnanimity, morality, and...thought to have some participation of divineness." What Coleridge says of the writing of poetry must be true of the reading of it. " Poetry has been to... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1979 - 434 страници
...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...submitting the shows of things to the desires of the mind." See JMN, VI, 4 1n, for a list of other places where Emerson uses this sentence of Bacon. 19.35... | |
 | David Daiches - 1979 - 304 страници
...interesting definitions, that of poetry might be singled out, for it is curiously Freudian: "it [poetry] 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." (The dwindling number... | |
 | Northrop Frye - 1982 - 220 страници
...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,...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 страници
...of man, poesy feigneth acts and events greater and more heroica!.... So as it appeareth that poesy serveth and conferreth to magnanimity, morality, and...submitting the shows of things to the desires of the mind; whereas reason doth buckle and bow the mind unto the nature of things. In Ephraim Chambers' Cyclopaedia... | |
 | Anne Drury Hall - 2010 - 217 страници
...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 the shows of things to the desires of the mind; whereas reason doth buckle and bow the mind into the nature of things" (Advancement, 343-44).... | |
 | Heather Dubrow, Richard Strier - 1988 - 387 страници
...heroic and virtuous image which is more satisfying than the imperfections of nature. Therefore poetry "was ever thought to have some participation of divineness,...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 страници
...alternative variations: so as it appeareth that poesy serveth and conferreth to magnanimity, morality, and delectation. And therefore it was ever thought to...submitting the shows of things to the desires of the mind; whereas reason doth buckle and bow the mind unto the nature of things.3 Here is suggested a relation... | |
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