 | Francis Bacon - 1838 - 898 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,...melancholy and indisposition, and unpleasing to themselves ? One of the fathers, in great severity, called poesy, vinum dtcmonum ; because it filleth the imagination,... | |
 | Chandos Leigh - English poetry - 1839 - 430 pages
...NOTHING. " Doth any man doubt, that if there were taken out of men's minds, vain opinions, nattering hopes, false valuations, imaginations as ' one would,'...melancholy and indisposition, and unpleasing to themselves ?"—BACON. WHAT wild ambitious schemes The ripen'd man engage ? To love's delusive dreams Succeed... | |
 | Henry Dunn - Teaching - 1839 - 302 pages
...masques, and mummeries, and triumphs of the present world, half so stately and daintily as candle-lights. Doth any man doubt, that if there were taken from...valuations, imaginations, as one would, and the like vinum damonum, but it would leave the minds of a number of men, poor shrunken things, full of melancholy... | |
 | Henry Dunn - Teaching - 1839 - 238 pages
...opinions, nattering hopes, false valuations, imaginations, as one would, and the like vinum damonum, but it would leave the minds of a number of men, poor...melancholy and indisposition, and unpleasing to themselves ?"' Alas, how true ! How many, in this way, first dupe themselves, and then become the dupes of others... | |
 | Francis Bacon (visct. St. Albans.) - 1840 - 244 pages
...lights. A mixture of a lie doth eve? add pleasure. Doth any man doubt, that if there were taken out of men's minds vain opinions, flattering hopes, false...things, full of melancholy and indisposition, and vmpleasing to themselves ? One of the fathers, in great severity, called poesy " vinum daemonum,"i... | |
 | Samuel Taylor Coleridge - 1840 - 582 pages
...valuations, imaginations as one would, and the hi* viiinm Dcmonum (as a Fattier calleth poetry) but c rument. And thus, my love ! as on the midway slope Of yonder hill I stretch my limbs indisposabcsi, and unpleasing to themselves?" A melancholy, a too general, but not, I trust, a amvenal... | |
 | Robert Aspland - 1842 - 846 pages
...race of " orthodox" professors, when he asks, " Doth any man doubt that if there were taken out of men's minds vain opinions, flattering hopes, false...melancholy and indisposition, and unpleasing to themselves ?" Is there not benevolence in the wish — it is one in which I am often disposed to indulge — that... | |
 | Asia - 1843 - 734 pages
...much to expect from human nature. " Doth any man doubt," observes Lord Bacon, in his Essay on Truth, " that if there were taken from men's minds vain opinions,...shrunken things, full of melancholy and indisposition, CRITICAL NOTICES. n» Easter* <nd Wetter* States of America. By JS BVCCIMQBAM, Esq. Three Vols. Fisher.... | |
 | English literature - 1843 - 594 pages
...valuations, imaginations as one would say, and the like vinum Dcemanum, (as a Father calleth poetry,) but it would leave the minds of a number of men poor...melancholy and indisposition, and unpleasing to themselves ?' It would now be more to the purpose to enquire, what is likely to be the effect of living in an... | |
 | 1843 - 602 pages
...valuations, imaginations as one would say, and the like vinum Damonum, (as a Father calleth poetry,) but it would leave the minds of a number of men poor...melancholy and indisposition, and unpleasing to themselves 1" It would now be more to the purpose to inquire, what is likely to be the effect of living in an... | |
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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,... 
