 | Francis Bacon - 1815 - 324 páginas
...inculcates morality and nobleness of soul. Whence it may be justly esteemed of a divine nature; as it raises the mind, by accommodating the images of...history and reason, subjecting the mind to things.* And by these its charms, and congruity to the mind, with the assistance also of music, which conveys... | |
 | Ralph Griffiths, George Edward Griffiths - 1820 - 570 páginas
...relieves us by unexpected turns and changes, and thus not only delights but at the same time inspires morality and nobleness of soul. It raises the mind...history and reason, subjecting the mind to things." (De Augment. Sci. lib. i.) . From the influence of reasons of this kind, the appetite for fiction derives... | |
 | Ralph Griffiths, George Edward Griffiths - 1820 - 570 páginas
...relieves us by unexpected turns and changes, and thus not only delights but at the same time inspires morality and .nobleness of soul. It raises the mind...history and reason, subjecting the mind to things." (De Augment. Sci. lib. i.) . ,. ' From the influence of reasons of this kind, the appetite for fiction... | |
 | 1821 - 536 páginas
...displays to us the fates and fortunes of persons rewarded or punished, according to their merit. Fiction raises the mind by accommodating the images of things...history and reason, subjecting the mind to things'' Now although it may not be absolutely essential to a good tragedy, that an equal justice should -be... | |
 | 1821 - 732 páginas
...inculcates morality and noble" ness of soul." — " It raises the mind," says he, "• by accommodat" ing the images of things to our desires — and not like...history and " reason, subjecting the mind to things." Bacon, deAug. Scient. lib.ii. Statesmenalso have resorted to it,andMemmius saved Rome from a great... | |
 | 1825
...own benefit and for that of others. Mr. Mat/tews. It is Lord Bacon, I think, who says, that fiction " raises the mind by accommodating the images of things...history and reason, subjecting the mind to things." Dr. Primrose. It is. But I differ, with all due respect, from that mighty genius, when he says, that... | |
 | John Penford THOMAS - 1825 - 414 páginas
...only to our commendations, but also to our gratitude and imitation. Bacon observes of painting that it " raises the mind, by accommodating the images of things to our desires," — a proposition which displays the most profound knowledge of human nature. This fine large picture... | |
 | William Harper - 1836 - 38 páginas
...inculcates morality and nobleness of soul. Whence it may justly be es. / teemed of a divine nature ; as it raises the mind by accommo^dating the images of...history and reason, subjecting the mind to things." When the mathematician inquired, what does poetry prove ? it might have been replied, that it proves... | |
 | William Harper - 1836 - 23 páginas
...Whence it may justly be esteemed of a divine nature ; as it raises the mind by accommodating the ¡mages of things to our desires ; .and not like history and reason, subjecting the mind to things." When the mathematician inquired, what does poetry prove ? it might have been replied, that it proves... | |
 | Charles Frederick Briggs - 1843 - 394 páginas
...not only delights, but inculcates morality and nobleness of soul. It raises the mind by accomodating the images of things to our desires, and not like history and reason subjecting the mind to things." And Sir Walter Raleigh advises the writer of history even, not to follow too close after Truth, lest... | |
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Divine nature, as it raises the mind, by accommodating the images of things to our desires, and not, like history and reason, subjecting the mind to things. 
