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Text-book of Prose: From Burke, Webster, and Bacon : with Notes, and ... - Page 562
by Henry Norman Hudson - 1876 - 636 pages
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The essays; or, Counsels civil and moral with A table of the colours of good ...

Francis Bacon (visct. St. Albans.) - 1853 - 176 pages
...minds vain opinions, nattering hopes, false valuations, imaginations as one would, and the like, but it would leave the minds of a number of men poor shrunken...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...
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The Complete Works of Samuel Taylor Coleridge: With an ..., Volume 2

Samuel Taylor Coleridge - 1853 - 566 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 ?"* A melancholy, a too general, but not, I trust, a universal truth ! — and even where it does apply,...
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The Complete Works of Samuel Taylor Coleridge: With an ..., Volume 2

Samuel Taylor Coleridge - 1853 - 492 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 ?"* A melancholy, a too general, but not, I trust, a universal truth ! — and even where it does apply,...
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The Complete Works of Samuel Taylor Coleridge: With an ..., Volume 2

Samuel Taylor Coleridge - 1854 - 568 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 ?"* A melancholy, a too general, but not, I trust, a universal truth ! — and even where it does apply,...
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Literary Recreations and Miscellanies

John Greenleaf Whittier - Literary Criticism - 1854 - 452 pages
...were taken out of men's minds vain opinions, flattering hopes, false valuations, and imaginations, but it would leave the minds of a number of men poor,...melancholy and indisposition, and unpleasing to themselves ? " This admitted tendency of our nature — this love of the pleasing intoxication of unveracity,...
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Miscellaneous Pamphlets on Some of the Leading Questions Agitated in the ...

Julius Charles Hare - 1855 - 536 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...melancholy and indisposition, and unpleasing to themselves ? — But howsoever these things are thus in men's depraved judgements and affections, yet Truth, which...
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The Essays: Or, Counsels, Civil and Moral ; and The Wisdom of the Ancients

Francis Bacon - English essays - 1856 - 406 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...indisposition, and unpleasing to themselves? One of the fathers,1 in great severity, called poesy " vinum doemonum," 2 because it filleth the imagination,...
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Faust: A Dramatic Poem, Volume 1

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe - 1856 - 344 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 ?" — (Lord Bacon, quoted in The Friend, vol. i., p. 9.) 8. That, old • gentlemen, is your duty.]...
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William Shakespeare not an imposter, by an English critic [G.H. Townsend].

George Henry Townsend - 1857 - 136 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 rinum dtzmonum, because itfilleth the imagination, and yet it is but with the shadow of a lie. But...
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The Works of Francis Bacon ...: Literary and professional works

Francis Bacon - English literature - 1858 - 812 pages
...inytnia quadam ventota ct ditcuriantia. * KM qua t* t& ia 1 1 Hi -i cogitaiionibtu imponitur captivitat. of a number of men poor shrunken things, full of melancholy...the Fathers, in great severity, called poesy vinum deemonum [devil'swine], because it filleth the imagination ; and yet it is but with the shadow of a...
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