 | Henry Nelson Coleridge - 1850 - 304 pages
...Doth any man doubt, that if there were taken from men's minds, vain opinions, flattering hopes, falfe valuations, imaginations as one would, and the like,...it would leave the minds of a number of men, poor fhrunken things, full of melancholy and indifpofition, and unpleafing to themfelves ? " * A melancholy,... | |
 | Francis Bacon (visct. St. Albans.) - 1851 - 228 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...fathers, in great severity, called poesy, " vinum daBmonum, " because it filleth the imagination, and yet it is but with the shadow of a lie. But it... | |
 | Johann Wolfgang von Goethe - 1851 - 342 pages
...false valuations, imaginations as one would, and the like vinum Daemonum, (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. i., p. 9.) 8. That, old gentlemen, is your duty.] —... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1852 - 580 pages
...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...of melancholy and indisposition, and unpleasing to themselves1? One of the fathers, in great severity, called poesy " vinum daempnum," because it filleth... | |
 | Education - 1852 - 512 pages
...daintily as candle-light. Doth any man doubt, that, if there were taken out of men's minds vain opinions, flattering hopes, false valuations, imaginations as...the minds of a number of men poor shrunken things," &c.— vBACON, Essay on Truth. " How fading and insipid do all objects accost us that are not conveyed... | |
 | Francis Bacon - English essays - 1852 - 394 pages
...any man doubt, that if there were taken out of Men's Minds, vain Opinions, flattering Hopes, falfe Valuations, Imaginations as one would, and the like...it would leave the Minds of a Number of Men, poor fhrunken Things ; full of Melancholy, and Indifpofition, and unpleafing to themfelves ? One of the... | |
 | Francis Bacon (visct. St. Albans.) - 1853 - 176 pages
...pleasure. Doth any man doubt, that if there were taken out of men's minds vain opinions, nattering hopes, false valuations, imaginations as one would,...indisposition, and unpleasing to themselves? One of the fathers,3 in great severity, i Job. xviii. 38. * Probably he means the Sceptics. 1 Perhaps he was thinking... | |
 | Samuel Taylor Coleridge - 1853 - 566 pages
...doth ever add pleasure. Doth any man doubt, that if there were taken from men's minds, vain opinions, flattering hopes, false valuations, imaginations as...melancholy and indisposition, and unpleasing to themselves ?"* A melancholy, a too general, but not, I trust, a universal truth ! — and even where it does apply,... | |
 | Samuel Taylor Coleridge - 1853 - 492 pages
...doth ever add pleasure. Doth any man doubt, that if there were taken from men's minds, vain opinions, flattering hopes, false valuations, imaginations as...melancholy and indisposition, and unpleasing to themselves ?"* A melancholy, a too general, but not, I trust, a universal truth ! — and even where it does apply,... | |
 | Samuel Taylor Coleridge - 1854 - 568 pages
...doth ever add pleasure. Doth any man doubt that if there were taken from men's minds, vain opinions, flattering hopes, false valuations, imaginations as...melancholy and indisposition, and unpleasing to themselves ?"* A melancholy, a too general, but not, I trust, a universal truth ! — and even where it does apply,... | |
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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,... 
