 | Francis Bacon - Literary Collections - 1999 - 276 pages
...constantly changing opinions 4 liking 5 inclination 6 lays restraints on 7 at a loss 8 conduce to 9 window the mind, but the lie that sinketh in and settleth...that doth the hurt; such as we spake of before. But howsoever1 these things are thus in men's depraved judgments2 and affections,3 yet truth,* which only... | |
 | Francis Bacon - Biography & Autobiography - 2000 - 470 pages
...unpleasing to themselves? One 30 of the Fathers, in great Severity, called Poesie, Vinum Daemonum; because it filleth the Imagination, and yet it is,...Lie. But it is not the Lie, that passeth through the Minde, but the Lie that sinketh in, and setleth in it, that doth the hurt, such as we spake of before.... | |
 | Edward Geoffrey Parrinder, Geoffrey Parrinder - Reference - 2000 - 389 pages
...apple, rotten at the heart. William Shakespeare, The Merchant of Venice, I, iii, 93-6 (c. 1596-8) 8 It is not the lie that passeth through the mind, but...sinketh in, and settleth in it, that doth the hurt. Francis Bacon, Essays, 'Of Truth' (1625) 9 And, after all, what is a lie? 'Tis but The truth in masquerade,... | |
 | Francis Bacon - English essays - 2002 - 868 pages
...themselves? One of the Fathers,0 in great severity, called poesy 'vinum daemonum'0 because it filleth0 the imagination; and yet it is but with the shadow of a tie. But it is not the lie that passeth through the mind, but the lie that sinketh in and settleth... | |
 | Francis Bacon - Literary Collections - 2007 - 157 pages
...unpleasing to themselves? One of the fathers, in great severity, called poesy vinum dsmonum [devils'-winej, because it filleth the imagination; and yet it is...not the lie that passeth through the mind, but the He that sinketh in and settleth in it, that doth the hurt; such as we spake of before. But howsoever... | |
 | Jeffrey Miller - Fiction - 2007 - 291 pages
...Fields North. Solitary confinement. Outlawry. Exile. 12 A mixture of a lie doth ever add pleasure . . . but it is not the lie that passeth through the mind,...sinketh in, and settleth in it, that doth the hurt. Francis Bacon, Essays, "Of Truth" THE FACTS Nathalie Robicheaux is Canadian blueblood on at least her... | |
 | P. F. Clarke - History - 2007 - 494 pages
...as their opponents had done.2 Unfair tactics really came down to misrepresentation of various kinds. 'It is not the lie that passeth through the mind,...sinketh in, and settleth in it, that doth the hurt.' Misrepresentation aroused such strong feelings because it was felt to be impossible to overtake a falsehood.... | |
 | George Herbert - Literary Collections - 2007 - 47 pages
...the real thing as an image is to the essence or true object. See Bacon, Essay, Of Truth 62: poetry 'filleth the imagination, and yet it is but with the shadow of a lie'. The implication is ultimately funereal - a shadow (or shade) is a ghost. course-spunne lines: Badly... | |
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Fathers, in great severity, called poesy vinum dcemonum [devil's-wine], because it filleth the imagination ; and yet it is but with the shadow of a lie. But it is not the lie that passeth through the mind, but the lie that sinketh in and settleth in it,... 
