 | John Bartlett - Quotations - 1868 - 828 pages
...retrograde, by a computation backward from ourselves.1 Advancement of Learning. Book i. (1605.) It [Poesy] was ever thought to have some participation of divineness,...raise and erect the mind, by submitting the shews of tilings to the desires of the mind. Ibid. Book ii. 1 As in the little, so in the great world, reason... | |
 | Joseph Payne - 1868 - 530 pages
...seryeth and conferreth to magnanimity, morality, and to delectation. And therefore it was ever taought 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... | |
 | English authors - English literature - 1869 - 458 pages
...and more unexpected and alternative variations. So as it appeareth that poesy serveth and conferreth to magnanimity, morality, and to delectation. And...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... | |
 | Francis Bacon - Logic - 1869 - 446 pages
...rareness, and more unexpected and ernative variations. So as it appeareth that poesy serveth and conferreth to magnanimity, morality, and to delectation. And...participation of divineness, because it doth raise arid" 'erect.. the_mjnd, _by [ jubmitting the .shgws. of^things to the desires of the mind; whereas... | |
 | Theology - 1870 - 604 pages
...again. We are contented to cite a second time the words of Bacon, that " Poesy servcth and conferreth to magnanimity, morality, and to delectation. 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... | |
 | Edmund Ollier - 1871 - 648 pages
...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,...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... | |
 | Noah Porter - Books and reading - 1871 - 392 pages
...again. We are contented to cite a second time the words of Bacon, that " Poesy serveth and conferreth to magnanimity, morality, and to delectation. 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 - Bibliography - 1871 - 406 pages
...again. We are contented to cite a second time the words of Bacon, that " Poesy serveth and conferreth to magnanimity, morality, and to delectation. 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 - 404 pages
...again. We are contented to cite a second time the words of Bacon, that " Poesy serveth and conferreth to magnanimity, morality, and to delectation. And therefore it was ever thought to have so:ue participation of divineness." What Coleridge says of the writing of poetry must be true of the... | |
 | 1859 - 446 pages
...with more rareness, so as it appeareth that poesy serveth and conferreth to magnanimity, morality, and delectation ; and therefore it was ever thought to...it doth raise 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... | |
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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. 
