 | William Hazlitt - 1818 - 354 sayfa
...it in the boldest manner, and by the most striking examples of the same quality in other instances. Poetry, according to Lord Bacon, for this reason,...is strictly the language of the imagination ; and the imagination is that faculty which represents objects, not as they are in themselves, but as they... | |
 | John Johnstone - 1827 - 596 sayfa
...the gods, are the applause of that heroic virtue which they inspire. This art, according to Bacon, " has something divine in it, because it raises the...mind and hurries it into sublimity, by conforming the shews of things to the desires of the soul, instead of subjecting the soul to external things, as reason... | |
 | William Tait, Christian Isobel Johnstone - 1832 - 824 sayfa
...question, Lord Bacon, a true poet, though he wrote in proso, replies, — " It is something divine ; because it raises the mind, and hurries it into sublimity,...soul to external things, as reason and history do." What is poetry ? we ask of Hazlitt, another of the poets, who neither submitted to the links of rhyme,... | |
 | 1843 - 592 sayfa
...be Free to come back to solitude and thee ! STRAY THOUGHTS ON POETS AND POETRY.— No. 2. " Poetry has something divine in it, because it raises the...mind and hurries it into sublimity, by conforming the shews of things to the desires of the soul, instead of subjecting the soul to external things, as reason... | |
 | William Hazlitt - 1845 - 510 sayfa
...it in the boldest manner, and by the most striking examples of the same quality in other instances. Poetry, according to Lord Bacon, for this reason,...is strictly the language of the imagination ; and the imagination is that faculty which represents objects, not as they are in themselves, but as they... | |
 | Eliphalet L. Rice - 1846 - 432 sayfa
...and it needs must be something more than human ; it "has something divine in it," says Lord Byron, "because it raises the mind and hurries it into sublimity,...conforming the shows of things to the desires of the soul." Such is the nature of poetry, and he is a poet who feels the operations of the Divinity in his own... | |
 | 1857 - 656 sayfa
...Here was a fulfilment of Lord Bacon's description — " Poetry has something divine in it, becaiise it raises the mind and hurries it into sublimity, by conforming the shows of thing! to the desires of the soul, instead of subjecting the soul to external things, as reason and... | |
 | 1871 - 800 sayfa
...that poetry is divine because it has power to raise the mind ' by conforming the shows of things i9 to the desires of the soul, instead of subjecting...soul to external things as reason and history do.' In this deep saying is probably contained the whole philosophy of poetry as a spiritual need of man.... | |
 | 1915 - 826 sayfa
...Bacon, who says of poetry that it " has something divine in it, because it raises the mind and carries it into sublimity by conforming the shows of things...soul to external things, as reason and history do." This (we observe) is a description of idealization by imagination. He reminds us how Shakespeare (or,... | |
 | William Hazlitt - 1876 - 474 sayfa
...it in the boldest manner, and by the most striking examples of tlie same quality in other instances. Poetry, according to Lord Bacon, for this reason "...it raises the mind and hurries it into sublimity, li by conforming the shows of things to the desires of tho soul, instead of subjecting the soul to... | |
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has something divine in it, because it raises the mind and hurries it into sublimity, by conforming the shows of things to the desires of the soul, instead of subjecting the soul to external things, as reason and history do... 
