 | New elegant extracts, Richard Alfred Davenport - English literature - 1827 - 408 pages
...doth ever add pleasure. Doth any man doubt, that if there were taken out of men's minds vain opinions, flattering hopes, false valuations, imaginations as...number of men poor shrunken things, full of melancholy indisposition, and unpleasing to themselves ? One of the fathers, in great severity, called poesy,... | |
 | Richard Alfred Davenport - Classical poetry - 1827 - 402 pages
...doth ever add pleasure. Doth any man doubt, that if there were taken out of men's minds vain opinions, flattering hopes, false valuations, imaginations as...number of men poor shrunken things, full of melancholy indisposition, and unpleasing to themselves ? One of the fathers, in great severity, called poesy,... | |
 | Richard Alfred Davenport - 1827 - 494 pages
...pleasure. Doth any man doubt, that if there were taken out of men's minds vain opinions, Battering hopes, false valuations, imaginations as one would,...number of men poor shrunken things, full of melancholy indisposition, and unpleasing to themselves ? One of the fathers, in great severity, called poesy,... | |
 | Robert Plumer Ward - English fiction - 1827 - 422 pages
...of men's minds, vain opinions, flattering hopes, false valuations, and imaginations, as one would, but it would leave the minds of a number of men poor...shrunken things, full of melancholy and indisposition?'* " This was my creed ; and I did not repent it, though my patron and kinsman told me I should never... | |
 | Walter Savage Landor - Imaginary conversations - 1829 - 570 pages
...doth ever add pleasure. Doth any man doubt that, if there were taken out of men's minds vain opinions, flattering hopes, false valuations, imaginations as...and indisposition, and unpleasing to themselves" One might well imagine, said he, unpleasing to themselves, if full of melancholy and indisposition. But... | |
 | Samuel Bailey - Belief and doubt - 1831 - 254 pages
...delusions, how flattering soever to the imagination, could afford, of men's minds vain opinions, nattering hopes, false valuations, imaginations as one would,...melancholy and indisposition, and unpleasing to themselves ?" — Essay on Truth. His lordship, however, although he thus strongly portrays the disagreeable effects... | |
 | Francis Bacon - English essays - 1833 - 228 pages
...flattering hopes, false valuations, imaginations as one would, and the like, but it would leave the miuds of a number of men poor shrunken things, full of melancholy...the fathers, in great severity, called poesy " vinum daemonum," because it nlleth the imagination, and yet it is but with the shadow of a lie. But it is... | |
 | Johann Wolfgang von Goethe - 1833 - 396 pages
...false valuations, imaginations as one would, and the like vinumDsemonum (as a Father calleth poetry) but it would leave the minds of a number of men poor...melancholy and indisposition, and unpleasing to themselves ?" — (Lord Bacon, quoted in The Friend, vol. ip 9.) impaired by age, whilst the power of pourtraying... | |
 | Basil Montagu - Fore-edged painting - 1837 - 400 pages
...there were taken out of men's minds vain opinions, flattering hopes, false valuations and imaginations, it would leave the minds of a number of men poor shrunken...melancholy and indisposition, and unpleasing to themselves. So, take from the aged Mahometan the opinion which he has entertained through the whole of his life... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1838 - 894 pages
...doth ever add pleasure. Doth any man doubt, that if there were taken out of men's minds vain opinions, flattering hopes, false valuations, imaginations as...the fathers, in great severity, called poesy, vinum •litmonum ; because it filleth the imagination, and yet it is but with the shadow of a lie. But it... | |
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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,... 
