| John Holmes Agnew, Eliakim Littell - Art - 1843 - 612 pages
...valuations, imaginations as one would say, and the like vinum Dœmonum, (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... | |
| English literature - 1843 - 596 pages
...valuations, ima' ginations as one would say, and the like vinum Dannonum, (as a ' Father calleth poetry,) but it would leave the minds of a number ' of men poor shrunken things, full of melancholy and indisposi' tion, and unpleasing to themselves ?' It would now be more to the purpose to enquire, what... | |
| George Lillie Craik - English language - 1845 - 484 pages
...lights. 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...melancholy and indisposition, and unpleasing to themselves ?" Swift, with the phraseology of this passage apparently running in his head, goes on to condemn the... | |
| John Seely Hart - Readers - 1845 - 404 pages
...A mixture of a lie doth ever add pleasure. Doth any man ever doubt, that if there were taken out of men's minds vain opinions, flattering hopes, false...melancholy and indisposition, and unpleasing to themselves ? But it is not the lie that passeth through the mind, but the lie that sinketh in, and settleth in... | |
| Samuel Taylor Coleridge - 1845 - 582 pages
...falee valuations, imaginations at one i-ould, and the like vinum Dœmonum {as a Father calleth poetry) Ye, as ye pass, toss high the des 0 * Л melancholy, a loo general, but not, I trust, a universal truth ! — and even where it does apply,... | |
| George Lillie Craik - Philosophers - 1846 - 778 pages
...lights. 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...melancholy and indisposition, and unpleasing to themselves. One of the Fathers, in great severity, called poesy ' Vinum Daemonum,'* because it filleth the imagination,... | |
| George Lillie Craik - 1846 - 226 pages
...lights. 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...things, full of melancholy and indisposition, and unpleaslng to themselves. One of the Fathers, in great severity, called poesy ' Vinum Daemonnm,'* because... | |
| john forbes - 1846 - 626 pages
...applicable who will fear the light of truth : ' Doth any man doubt that if there were taken out of men's minds vain opinions, flattering hopes, false...the minds of a number of men poor shrunken things, and unpleasiug to themselves ' " Nothing can be more injurious to the true interest of medicine than... | |
| George Lillie Craik - 1846 - 732 pages
...lights. A mixture of a lie doth ew add pleasure. Doth any man douht, that if there were taken out of men's minds vain opinions, flattering hopes, false...valuations, imaginations as one would, and the like; hut it would leave the minds of a numher of men, poor shrunken thingsfull of melancholy and indisposition,... | |
| Francis Bacon, Basil Montagu - 1848 - 594 pages
...lights. 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 likt, but it would leave the minds of a number of men, poor shrunken things, full of melancholy and... | |
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