 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
 | George Walker - English prose literature - 1825 - 668 pages
...minds, vain opiiiions, flattering hopes, false valuations, imaginations as one would, and the like ; but it would leave the minds of a number of men, poor...because it filleth the imagination, and yet it is but the shadow of a lie. But it is not the lie that passeth through the mind, but the lie that sinketh... | |
 | Francis Bacon - English prose literature - 1825 - 524 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 daemonum," because it filleth the imagination, and yet it is but with the shadow of a lie. But it is... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1825 - 538 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 daemonum," because it filleththe imagination, and yet it is but with the shadow of a lie. But it is... | |
 | Francis Bacon, Basil Montagu - 1825 - 550 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 daemonum," because it filleththe imagination, and yet it is but with the shadow of a lie. But it is... | |
 | Richard Alfred Davenport - Classical poetry - 1827 - 402 pages
...unpleasing to themselves ? One of the fathers, in great severity, called poesy, " vinum daemonum," because it filleth the imagination, and yet it is...the lie that passeth through the mind, but the lie, thatsinketh in and settleth in it, that doth the hurt, such as we spake of before. But howsoever these... | |
 | Walter Savage Landor - Imaginary conversations - 1829 - 570 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...and indisposition, and unpleasing to themselves" One might well imagine, said he, unpleasing to themselves, if full of melancholy and indisposition. But... | |
 | 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
...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 shrunken...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
...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...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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