| 1843 - 596 pages
...valuations, ima' ginations as one would say, and the like vinum Dannonum, (as a ' Father calleth poetry,) but it would leave the minds of a number ' of men poor shrunken things, full of melancholy and indisposi' tion, and unpleasing to themselves ?' It would now be more to the purpose to enquire, what... | |
| George Lillie Craik - 1845 - 484 pages
...ever add pleasure. Doth any man doubt, that, if there were taken out of men's minds vain opinions, flattering hopes, false valuations, imaginations as...melancholy and indisposition, and unpleasing to themselves ?" Swift, with the phraseology of this passage apparently running in his head, goes on to condemn the... | |
| John Seely Hart - 1845 - 404 pages
...ever add pleasure. Doth any man ever doubt, that if there were taken out of men's minds vain opinions, flattering hopes, false valuations, imaginations as...melancholy and indisposition, and unpleasing to themselves ? But it is not the lie that passeth through the mind, but the lie that sinketh in, and settleth in... | |
| Samuel Taylor Coleridge - 1845 - 582 pages
...falee valuations, imaginations at one i-ould, and the like vinum Dœmonum {as a Father calleth poetry) Ye, as ye pass, toss high the des 0 * Л melancholy, a loo general, but not, I trust, a universal truth ! — and even where it does apply,... | |
| George Lillie Craik - 1846 - 778 pages
...doth ever add pleasure. Doth any man doubt, that if there were taken out of men's minds vain opinions, flattering hopes, false valuations, imaginations as...the Fathers, in great severity, called poesy ' Vinum Daemonum,'* because it filleth the imagination, and yet it is but with the shadow of a lie. But it... | |
| George Lillie Craik - 1846 - 226 pages
...doth ever add pleasure. Doth any man doubt, that if there were taken out of men's minds vain opinions, flattering hopes, false valuations, imaginations as...things, full of melancholy and indisposition, and unpleaslng to themselves. One of the Fathers, in great severity, called poesy ' Vinum Daemonnm,'* because... | |
| George Lillie Craik - 1846 - 732 pages
...one would, and the like; hut it would leave the minds of a numher of men, poor shrunken thingsfull of melancholy and indisposition, and unpleasing to...the Fathers, in great severity, called poesy ' Vinum Daemonum,'* hecause it filleth the imagination, awl yet it is hut with the shadow of a lie. But it... | |
| Francis Bacon, Basil Montagu - 1848 - 594 pages
...minds, vain opinions, flattering hopes, false valuations, imaginations as one would, and the likt, but it would leave the minds of a number of men, poor...the fathers, in great severity, called poesy " vinum dsemonum," because it filleth the imagination, and yet it is but with the shadow of a lie. But it is... | |
| 1858 - 682 pages
...ever add Pleasure. Doth any roan doubt, that if there were taken out of Men's minds vain Opinions, flattering Hopes, false Valuations, Imaginations as...One of the Fathers, in great severity, called Poesy, Vinmn Daimonum • because it filleth the Imagination, and yet it is but with the Shadow of a Lie."... | |
| Francis Bacon - 1850 - 590 pages
.../an"ymïm doubt, that if there were taken out of men's minds, vain opinions, flattering hopes, Use r extendeth to the mysteries themselves ; but how...probation" no constant belief or confession, but left all to thefartiers.. in great severily, called poesy " vinuni oaemonum," because il filleth the imagination,... | |
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