 One of 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 is not the lie that passeth through the mind, but the lie that sinketh in and settleth in it, that...  Bacon's Essays and Wisdom of the Ancients - Page 58by Francis Bacon - 1884 - 425 pagesFull view - About this book
 | 1909 - 378 pages
...unpleasing to themselves ? One of the fathers, in great severity, called poesy vinum damonum [devils'-wine], because it filleth the imagination; and yet it is...judge itself, teacheth that the inquiry of truth, which is the love-making or wooing of it, the knowledge of truth, which is the presence of it, and... | |
 | William Blake - 1966 - 964 pages
...masques, and mummeries, and triumphs of the world half so stately and daintily as candlelights . . . But howsoever these things are thus in men's depraved...judge itself, teacheth that the inquiry of truth, which is the love-making, or wooing of it; the knowledge of truth, which is the presence of it; and... | |
 | Lisa Jardine - 1974 - 300 pages
...similarity does not seem to me to go any deeper than this. On Bacon and Montaigne see Zeitlin, art. cit. 245 But it is not the lie that passeth through the mind,...it, that doth the hurt; such as we spake of before. [VI, 378] 'Such as we spake of before' does not in fact refer back to 'lying in first principles' in... | |
 | Thomas Babe - 1989 - 72 pages
...in great severity, called poesy vinum daemonum because it filleth the imagination; and yet it is but the shadow of a lie. But it is not the lie that passeth through the mind, but the lie that sinketh in it, that doth hurt . . . — Francis Bacon, "Of Truth" (1625) DEMON WINE ACT I SCENE 1 A table, a couple... | |
 | John Hollander - 1990 - 280 pages
...unmixed falsehood. Bacon in "Of Truth" draws an analogous distinction: "It is not the lie that passes through the mind but the lie that sinketh in and settleth in it that doth the hurt," but here again, the "lie" means the falsehood that has been mistaken by the hearer for truth and not... | |
 | John Bryant - 1993 - 331 pages
..."imaginations," but in confusing "false valuations" with true, we run the risk of self-delusion, 9 for "It is not the lie that passeth through the mind, but the lie that sinketh and settleth in it, that doth the hurt." Rather than happily fall out of memory, Bacon's lie, through... | |
 | Steven C. Ward - 1996 - 196 pages
...must needs be filled with infinite errors and false appearances" (Bacon 1961a, 433). He argued that "it is not the lie that passeth through the mind, but the lie that sinketh in and settleth in it" (Bacon 1961b, 378). He compared the mind to "an enchanted glass, full of superstition and imposture"... | |
 | Nieves Mathews - 1996 - 620 pages
...But that magic has done its work. 'It is not the lie that passetti through the mind,' wrote Bacon, 'but the lie that sinketh in and settleth in it that doth the hurt.'68 The psychological power of what he called a 'false notion, or idol' is all the greater when... | |
 | Detlev Gohrbandt - 1998 - 320 pages
...anführt, um ihn zu modifizieren: One of the Fathers, in great Severity, called Poesie Vinum Daemonum; because it filleth the Imagination, and yet it is but with the shadow of a lie. (2) gleich ganz zur Lüge zu machen. Der Grund, weshalb diese halbe Ehrenrettung der Poesie möglich... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1999 - 276 pages
...constantly changing opinions 4 liking 5 inclination 6 lays restraints on 7 at a loss 8 conduce to 9 window the mind, but the lie that sinketh in and settleth...that doth the hurt; such as we spake of before. But howsoever1 these things are thus in men's depraved judgments2 and affections,3 yet truth,* which only... | |
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