| Alvin B. Kernan - 1989 - 384 pagina’s
...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,... | |
| Denis Donoghue - 1987 - 344 pagina’s
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| Anne Drury Hall - 2010 - 217 pagina’s
...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 pagina’s
...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 pagina’s
...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... | |
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