 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 into the nature of things.  Proceedings - Page 479by Royal Society of Edinburgh - 1878Full view - About this book
 | Horace - Poetry - 1776 - 280 pages
...of it; who gives it as the efiential note of this part of learning — THAT IT SUBMITS THE SHEWS OF THINGS TO THE DESIRES OF THE MIND : WHEREAS REASON DOTH BUCKLE AND BOW THE MIND UNTO THE K 4 NATURE NATURE OF THINGS. For to gratify the defires of the mind, is to PLEASE : Pleafurj then,... | |
 | George Dyer - English poetry - 1812 - 240 pages
...appeareth that poesy serveth and conserved! to magnanimity, morality, and delectation. And, therefore, it was ever thought to have some participation of divineness, because it doth raise and erect the mind; whereas reason doth buckle and bow the mind to the nature of things *." I close these testimonies,... | |
 | Sir Egerton Brydges - Essays - 1813 - 338 pages
...place, " that Poesy serveth, and conferreth to magnanimity, morality, and delectation ; and therefore it was ever thought to have some participation of divineness,...doth raise and erect the mind, by submitting , the shews of things to the desires of the mind ; whereas reason doth humble and bow the mind to the nature... | |
 | Leigh Hunt - English poetry - 1815 - 160 pages
...that Pob esy serveth and conferreth to magnanimity, morality, and to delectation. And therefore it 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... | |
 | Francis Bacon (visct. St. Albans.) - 1819 - 648 pages
...appeareth that poesy serveth and conferreth to magnanimity, morality, and to delectation. And therefore it 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... | |
 | Francis Bacon - English essays - 1824 - 642 pages
...appeareth that poesy serveth and conferreth to magnanimity, morality, and to delectation. And therefore it was ever thought to have some participation of divineness,...by submitting the shows of things to the desires of thfe mind ; whereas reason doth buckle and bow the mind unto the nature of things. And we see, that... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1825 - 524 pages
...appeareth that, poesy serveth and conferreth to magnanimity, morality, and to delectation. And therefore it 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... | |
 | George Walker - English prose literature - 1825 - 668 pages
...appeareth that poesy serveth and conferreth to magnanimity, morality, and to delectation. And therefore it 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... | |
 | Francis Bacon - Logic - 1825 - 432 pages
...appeareth poesy serveth and conierreth to magnanimity, morality, and to delectation. And therefore it was ever thought to have some participation of divineness, because it doth raise and erect _the mindj by submitting the shews of things to the desires of the mind ; whereas reason doth / buckle... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1826 - 626 pages
...appeareth that poesy serveth and conferreth to magnanimity, morality, and to delectation. And therefore it 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... | |
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