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... Bacon's Essays: With Annotations - Page 2by Francis Bacon, Richard Whately - 1858 - 588 pagesFull view - About this book
| Samuel Taylor Coleridge - 1840 - 582 pages
...valuations, imaginations as one would, and the hi* viiinm Dcmonum (as a Fattier calleth poetry) but c rument. And thus, my love ! as on the midway slope Of yonder hill I stretch my limbs indisposabcsi, and unpleasing to themselves?" A melancholy, a too general, but not, I trust, a amvenal... | |
| Robert Aspland - 1842 - 846 pages
...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...melancholy and indisposition, and unpleasing to themselves ?" Is there not benevolence in the wish — it is one in which I am often disposed to indulge — that... | |
| 1843 - 602 pages
...valuations, imaginations as one would say, and the like vinum Damonum, (as a Father calleth poetry,) but it would leave the minds of a number of men poor...melancholy and indisposition, and unpleasing to themselves 1" It would now be more to the purpose to inquire, what is likely to be the effect of living in an... | |
| 1843 - 594 pages
...valuations, imaginations as one would say, and the like vinum Dcemanum, (as a Father calleth poetry,) but it would leave the minds of a number of men poor...melancholy and indisposition, and unpleasing to themselves ?' It would now be more to the purpose to enquire, what is likely to be the effect of living in an... | |
| John Holmes Agnew, Eliakim Littell - 1843 - 612 pages
...valuations, imaginations as one would say, and the like vinum Dœmonum, (as a Father calleth poetry,) but it would leave the minds of a number of men poor...melancholy and indisposition, and unpleasing to themselves 1" It would now be more to the purpose to inquire, what is likely to be the effect of living in an... | |
| 1843 - 734 pages
...taken from 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...shrunken things, full of melancholy and indisposition, CRITICAL NOTICES. n» Easter* <nd Wetter* States of America. By JS BVCCIMQBAM, Esq. Three Vols. Fisher.... | |
| 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
...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...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
...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...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,... | |
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