 | 1888 - 102 pagina’s
...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; whether in modern times we define it, with Shelley, as " the best and happiest thoughts... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1871 - 542 pagina’s
...some participation of diviueuess, because it doth raise and cruet 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."1 The domain of high poetry is the sublime, the solemn, the terrible, the pathetic,... | |
 | Philip Sidney - 1890 - 206 pagina’s
...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 o( things. And we see that by these insinuations and congruities with man's nature and pleasure,... | |
 | Simon Somerville Laurie - 1890 - 202 pagina’s
...degree of all literature. " Poetry," he says, " 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." 'This aim of poetry does not weaken the mind, as Plato would seem to say, but admits... | |
 | Philip Sidney - 1890 - 210 pagina’s
...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. And we see that by these insinuations and congruities with man's nature and pleasure,... | |
 | David Daiches - 1979 - 304 pagina’s
...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 of those who profess to believe that Bacon wrote Shakespeare's... | |
 | Northrop Frye - 1982 - 220 pagina’s
...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 of things. The sciences, in other words, are primarily concerned with the world as it is: the... | |
 | Robert L. Montgomery - 2010 - 229 pagina’s
...1722); for the 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 doth buckle and bow the mind unto the nature of things." 13 And to underscore the fairly widespread disposition in the seventeenth century... | |
 | Alvin B. Kernan - 1989 - 384 pagina’s
...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. In Ephraim Chambers' Cyclopaedia (1728)—which Johnson knew well in connection with... | |
 | Anne Drury Hall - 2010 - 217 pagina’s
...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). In the essay "Of Fame," Bacon assaults the language... | |
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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. 
