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
| Manual - Essays - 1809 - 288 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...One of the fathers, in great severity, called poesy, riinn/t divmonum, the devil's wine, because it fills the imagination, and yet it is but with the shadow... | |
| Samuel Taylor Coleridge - Ethics - 1812 - 466 pages
...valuations, imaginations as one would, and the like vinum Dsemonum (as a Father calleth poetry) but it would leave the minds of a number of men poor shrunken...melancholy and Indisposition, and unpleasing to themselves ? '' This formidable Objection, (which however grounds itself on the false assumption, that I wage... | |
| Francis Bacon - 1815 - 310 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...fathers, in great severity, called poesy, " vinum " da;monum," because it fi'leth the imagination, and yet it is but with the shadow of a lie. But it... | |
| Francis Bacon (visct. St. Albans.) - 1818 - 310 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...One of the Fathers in great severity called Poesy, " the wine of Daemons," because it filleth the imagination, and yet it is but with the shadow of a... | |
| Francis Bacon - Conduct of life - 1818 - 312 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 1 One of the Fathers in great severity called Poesy, " the wine of Dasmons," because it filleth the... | |
| Francis Bacon (visct. St. Albans.) - 1819 - 602 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...imagination, and yet it is but with the shadow of a lye. But it is not the lye that passeth through the mind, but the lye that sinketh in, and settleth... | |
| Francis Bacon - Philosophy - 1819 - 580 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...the fathers, in great severity, called poesy, vinum dcemontim ; because it fiUeth the imagination, and yet it is but with the shadow of a lye. But it is... | |
| Francis Bacon - English essays - 1820 - 548 pages
...and unpleasing to themselves? One of the fathers, in great severity, called poesy, " vinum daemonum," because it filleth the imagination, and yet it is...But it is not the lie that passeth through the mind, -out the lie, that sinketh in and settleth in it, that doth the hurt, such as we spake of before. But... | |
| British prose literature - 1821 - 416 pages
...uupleasing to themselves ? One of the fathers, in great severity, called poesy, " vinum daemonum," becanse it filleth the imagination, and yet it is but with...lie that passeth through the mind, but the lie, that sinkcth in and settleth in it, that doth the hurt, such as we spake of before. But howsoever these... | |
| Samuel Bailey - Belief and doubt - 1821 - 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,...and indisposition, and unpleasing to themselves?" — Essay on Truth. His lordship, however, although he thus strongly pourtrays the disagreeable effects... | |
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