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 - 1873 - 266 pages
...minds vain opinions, flattering hopes, false valuations, imaginations as one would,3 and the like, but it would leave the minds of a number of men poor shrunken...the Fathers, in great severity, called poesy vinum damonum* because it filleth the imagination, and yet it is but with the shadow of a lie. But it is... | |
| Abraham Hayward - 1873 - 448 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... | |
| Francis Bacon (visct. St. Albans.) - 1874 - 100 pages
...vain opinions, flattering hopes, false valuations, imaginations as one would,' 9 and the like, but 2 ' it would leave the minds of a number of men poor shrunken...it filleth the imagination, and yet it is but with a shadow of a lie. 23 But it is not the lie that passeth through the mind, but the lie that sinketh... | |
| Homer Baxter Sprague - 1874 - 456 pages
...thoughts = it puts restrictions upon men's thoughts = it puts bounds to the license of speculation, etc. minds of a number of men poor shrunken things, full...One of the fathers, in great severity, called poesy* u vinurn dsemonum," because it filleth the imagination, and yet it is but with the shadow of a lie.... | |
| English literature - 1874 - 274 pages
...of the Fathers called poesy vinum dcemonium, 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 and setteth in it, that doth the hurt, such as we spoke of before. But howsoever those things are thus... | |
| Cassell, ltd - 1876 - 466 pages
...minds vain opinions, flattering hopes, false valuations, imaginations as one would, and the like ; but tz AF oM3 E 6 E' gI ~ό uR E VN W A n俫Fb) r ã Rh# *" D&monum,1 because it filleth the imagination, and yet it is but with the shadow of a lie. But it is... | |
| Francis Bacon (visct. St. Albans.) - 1876 - 300 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...indisposition, and unpleasing to themselves ? One 30 of the fathers, in great severity, called poesy vinum damonum, because it filleth the imagination,... | |
| Walter Savage Landor - 1876 - 562 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...indisposition, and unpleasing to themselves." " One might well imagine," said he, " unpleasing to themselves, ;/" full of melancholy and indisposition.... | |
| 1921 - 838 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...melancholy and indisposition and unpleasing to themselves ? ' Miss Yonge's ideals are certainly not of this stuff, but even they who might think them so must... | |
| lady Mary Hartley - 1876 - 358 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...melancholy and indisposition and unpleasing to themselves." — Bacon. " IT'S the most unaccountable proceeding I ever remember to have heard of. Disappear in... | |
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