 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 indisposition,...  Hogan, M.P.: A Novel - Page 409by May Laffan - 1881 - 491 pagesFull view - About this book
 | David Lloyd - Favorites, Royal - 1766 - 608 pages
...valua" tions, imaginations as one would, and the " like * vinum detnoKuw, as a father calls poetry, " but it would leave the minds of a number of " men, poor fnrunken things, full of melancho" ly, and indifpofition, and unpleafmg to them«' felves." " Clear... | |
 | 1801 - 446 pages
...deprived of vain opinions, flattering hopes, false valuations, imaginations as one would, and the like, it would leave the minds of a number of men poor shrunken things, full of fear, melancholy, and indisposition. One of the fathers, in great severity, called poesy " 'vinum damonum"... | |
 | Manual - Essays - 1809 - 288 pages
...mixture of a lie does ever add pleasure. Does any man doubt, that if there were taken out of mens' minds vain opinions, flattering hopes, false valuations,...melancholy and indisposition, and unpleasing to themselves. One of the fathers, in great severity, called poesy, riinn/t divmonum, the devil's wine, because it... | |
 | Francis Bacon - English essays - 1812 - 348 pages
...and daintily as candlelights. Truth may perhaps come to the price of a pearl, that showeth best by day; but it will not rise to the price of a diamond...things, full of melancholy and indisposition, and unpl easing to themselves? One of the fathers, in great severity, called poesy, " vinum daemonum,"... | |
 | Samuel Taylor Coleridge - Ethics - 1812 - 466 pages
...false 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...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
...that sheweth best by day ; but it will not rise to the price of a diamond or carbuncle, that sheweth best in varied lights. A mixture of a lie doth ever...melancholy and indisposition, and unpleasing to themselves? One of the fathers, in great severity, called poesy, " vinum " da;monum," because it fi'leth the imagination,... | |
 | Francis Bacon - Conduct of life - 1818 - 312 pages
...and daintily as candle-lights. Truth may perhaps come to the price. of a pearl, that sheweth best by day; but it will not rise to the price of a diamond...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.) - 1818 - 310 pages
...and daintily as candle-lights. Truth may perhaps come to the price of a pearl, that sheweth best by day ; but it will not rise to the price of a diamond...melancholy and indisposition, and unpleasing to themselves ? One of the Fathers in great severity called Poesy, " the wine of Daemons," because it filleth the... | |
 | Francis Bacon (visct. St. Albans.) - 1819 - 214 pages
...sheweth B 2 best by day ; but it will not rise to the price of a diamond or carbuncle, that sheweth best in varied lights. A mixture of a lie doth ever...number of men poor shrunken things, full of melancholy indisposition, and unpleasing to themselves ? One of the -'-fathers, in great severity, called poesy,... | |
 | Francis Bacon - Philosophy - 1819 - 580 pages
...A mixture of a lye doth ever add pleasure. Doth any man doubt, that if there were taken out of mens minds, vain opinions, flattering hopes, false valuations,...melancholy and indisposition, and unpleasing to themselves ? One of the fathers, in great severity, called poesy, vinum dcemontim ; because it fiUeth the imagination,... | |
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