 Doth any man doubt, that if there were taken out of men's minds vain opinions, flattering hopes, false valuations, imaginations as one would, and the like ; but it would leave the minds of a number of men, poor shrunken things, full of melancholy and...  Text-book of Prose: From Burke, Webster, and Bacon : with Notes, and ... - Page 562by Henry Norman Hudson - 1876 - 636 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Francis Bacon - 1857 - 412 pages
...unpleafing to themfelves ? One of the Fathers,3 in great Severity, called Poefy, Vinum Dfemonum ; becaufe it filleth the Imagination, and yet it is but with the Shadow of a Lie. But it is not the Lie that paffeth through the Mind, but the Lie that finketh in and fettleth in it, that doth the Hurt, fuch... | |
 | Francis Bacon, Richard Whately - 1858 - 620 pages
...minds vain opinions, flattering hopes, false valuations, imaginations as one would,1 and the like, but it would leave the minds of a number of men poor shrunken...the fathers, in great severity, called poesy ' vinum daemonum," because it filleth the imagination, and yet is but with the shadow of a lie. But it is not... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1858 - 790 pages
...quadam ventota et dÎKurtantia. * пес уча ex eâ inventa cogituiionibta imponitur captivitai. of a number of men poor shrunken things, full of melancholy...the Fathers, in great severity, called poesy vinum dœmonum [devil'swine], because it filleth the imagination ; and yet it is but with the shadow of a... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1858 - 792 pages
...venfota et discursantiu. 9 nee qua: ex tu inventn cogltationibut imponitur capticitas. 378 OF TRUTH. of a number of men poor shrunken things, full of melancholy...the Fathers, in great severity, called poesy vinum damonum [devil'swine], because it filleth the imagination ; and yet it is but with the shadow of a... | |
 | 1859 - 708 pages
...minds vain opinions, flattering hopes, kilse valuations, imaginations as one would, and the like, but it would leave the minds of a number of men poor shrunken...melancholy and indisposition, and unpleasing to themselves? — Bacon. Certainly it is heaven upon earth to have a mans mind move in charity, rest in providence,... | |
 | Francis Bacon, Basil Montagu - 1859 - 616 pages
...and unpleasing to themselves t 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 He that passeth through the mind, but the lie that sinketh in, and settleth in it, that doth the hurt,... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1860 - 480 pages
...minds vain opinions, flattering hopes, false valuations, imaginations as one would, and the like, but it would leave the minds of a number of men poor shrunken...Fathers, in great severity, called poesy vinum dcemonum [devil's-wine], because it filleth the imagination ; and yet it is but with the shadow of a lie. But... | |
 | 1860 - 544 pages
...minds, vain opinions, flattering hopes, false valuations, imaginations asoné would, and the like, but it would leave the minds of a number of men, poor...and indisposition ; and unpleasing to themselves. There is no vice that doth so cover a man with shame, as to be found false and perfidious. It is not... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, John Murray, George Walter Prothero - 1861 - 630 pages
...taken from men's minds vain opinions, flattering hopes, imaginations as one would, and the like, but it would leave the minds of a number of men poor shrunken...melancholy and indisposition, and unpleasing to themselves ? ' So says Lord Bacon ; and few aphorisms in prose or verse are more popular than Gray's ' Where ignorance... | |
 | William B. Dana - 1861 - 798 pages
...valuations, imaginations as one would, and the like vinum Daemonium, (as a father calls poetry,) that it would leave the minds of a number of men poor shrunken...melancholy and indisposition, and unpleasing to themselves i"j Fourier does not seem to have been at all conversant either with the grand sentiiiiunt ot' Pope... | |
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