 | Francis Bacon (visct. St. Albans.) - 1819 - 214 pages
...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 indisposition, and unpleasing to themselves ? One of the -'-fathers, in great severity, called poesy,... | |
 | Francis Bacon - English essays - 1820 - 548 pages
...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 indisposition, and unpleasing to themselves? One of the fathers, in great severity, called poesy, "... | |
 | Samuel Bailey - Belief and doubt - 1821 - 300 pages
...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?" — Essay on Truth. His lordship, however, although he thus strongly pourtrays the disagreeable effects... | |
 | British prose literature - 1821 - 416 pages
...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, fall of melancholy indisposition, and uupleasing to themselves ? One of the fathers, in great severity,... | |
 | Francis Bacon - English essays - 1822 - 238 pages
...the like, but it would leave the minds of a number of men poor shrunken things, full of melancholy indisposition, and unpleasing to themselves ? One...severity, called poesy, " vinum daemonum," because it iillcth the imagination, and yet it is but with the shadow of a lie. But it is not the lie that passeth... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1825 - 538 pages
...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...severity, called poesy, " vinum daemonum," because it filleththe imagination, and yet it is but with the shadow of a lie. But it is not the lie that passeth... | |
 | Francis Bacon, Basil Montagu - 1825 - 550 pages
...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...severity, called poesy, " vinum daemonum," because it filleththe imagination, and yet it is but with the shadow of a lie. But it is not the lie that passeth... | |
 | George Walker - English prose literature - 1825 - 668 pages
...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 shrunken...the fathers, in great severity, called poesy, vinum dcemonum ; because it filleth the imagination, and yet it is but the shadow of a lie. But it is not... | |
 | Richard Baxter - Christian life - 1825 - 660 pages
...vain opinions, flattering hopes, false valuations, imaginations, &c. but it would leave the minds ot a number of men, poor shrunken things, full of melancholy and indisposition, and uncomfortable to thenueUcs ? Lord Bacon's Essay of Lies. please God, or to come to heaven by persecuting... | |
 | Robert Plumer Ward - English fiction - 1827 - 422 pages
...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... | |
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A mixture of a lie 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 one would, and the like, but it would leave the minds of a number of men poor... 
