 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,...  English Prose and Poetry (1137-1892). - Page 1511916 - 792 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Manual - Essays - 1809 - 288 pages
...mixture of a lie does ever add pleasure. Does any man doubt, that if there were taken out of mens' minds vain opinions, flattering hopes, false valuations,...One of the fathers, in great severity, called poesy, riinn/t divmonum, the devil's wine, because it fills the imagination, and yet it is but with the shadow... | |
 | Francis Bacon - English essays - 1812 - 348 pages
...sake. But I cannot tell: this same truth is a naked and open daylight, that doth not show the masques, and mummeries, and triumphs of the world, half so...things, full of melancholy and indisposition, and unpl easing to themselves? One of the fathers, in great severity, called poesy, " vinum daemonum,"... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1815 - 310 pages
...that sheweth best by day ; but it will not rise to the price of a diamond or carbuncle, that sheweth best in varied lights. A mixture of a lie doth ever...fathers, in great severity, called poesy, " vinum " da;monum," because it fi'leth the imagination, and yet it is but with the shadow of a lie. But it... | |
 | Francis Bacon (visct. St. Albans.) - 1818 - 310 pages
...stately and daintily as candle-lights. Truth may perhaps come to the price of a pearl, that sheweth best by day ; but it will not rise to the price of...One of the Fathers in great severity called Poesy, " the wine of Daemons," because it filleth the imagination, and yet it is but with the shadow of a... | |
 | Francis Bacon - Conduct of life - 1818 - 312 pages
...stately and daintily as candle-lights. Truth may perhaps come to the price. of a pearl, that sheweth best by day; but it will not rise to the price of...melancholy and indisposition, and unpleasing to themselves 1 One of the Fathers in great severity called Poesy, " the wine of Dasmons," because it filleth the... | |
 | Francis Bacon (visct. St. Albans.) - 1819 - 214 pages
...sheweth B 2 best by day ; but it will not rise to the price of a diamond or carbuncle, that sheweth best in varied lights. A mixture of a lie doth ever...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 - Philosophy - 1819 - 580 pages
...A mixture of a lye doth ever add pleasure. Doth any man doubt, that if there were taken out of mens minds, vain opinions, flattering hopes, false valuations,...the fathers, in great severity, called poesy, vinum dcemontim ; because it fiUeth the imagination, and yet it is but with the shadow of a lye. But it is... | |
 | Francis Bacon - English essays - 1820 - 548 pages
...that sheweth best by day; but it will not rise to the price of a diamond or carbuncle, that sheweth best in varied lights. A mixture of a lie doth ever...number of men poor shrunken things, full of melancholy indisposition, and unpleasing to themselves? One of the fathers, in great severity, called poesy, "... | |
 | British prose literature - 1821 - 416 pages
...sheweth B 2 best by day ; but it will not rise to the price of a diamond or carbuncle, that sheweth best in varied lights. A mixture of a lie doth ever...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,... | |
 | Samuel Bailey - Belief and doubt - 1821 - 300 pages
...* ; yet it * On this point every one will agree with Lord Bacon : " Doth any man doubt," he asks, " that if there were taken out of men's minds vain opinions,...and indisposition, and unpleasing to themselves?" — Essay on Truth. His lordship, however, although he thus strongly pourtrays the disagreeable effects... | |
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