 | 1801 - 446 pages
...melancholy, and indisposition. One of the fathers, in great severity, called poesy " 'vinum damonum" because it filleth the imagination, and yet it is but with the shadow of a lie. it is not the lie which darts through the mind; but the lie that sinketh in, that doth the hurt. You... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray (IV), Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle) - English literature - 1843 - 626 pages
...paradoxical ; but, as Lord Bacon says, ' Works of imagination hurt not a child : taking them at the worst, it is not the lie that passeth through the mind, but the lie that sinketh in, and settlclh in it, which doth the hurt ;' and it may be justly questioned whether, in banishing the world... | |
 | Manual - Essays - 1809 - 288 pages
...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 of a lie. It is not, however, the lie that passes through the mind, but the lie that sinks in, and settles in... | |
 | Francis Bacon - English essays - 1812 - 348 pages
...unpl easing to themselves? One of the fathers, in great severity, called poesy, " vinum daemonum," because it filleth the imagination, and yet it is...men's depraved judgments and affections, yet truth which only doth judge itself, teacheth that the inquiry of truth, which is the love-making, or wooing... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1815 - 310 pages
...themselves? One of the fathers, in great severity, called poesy, " vinum " da;monum," because it fi'leth the imagination, and yet it is but with the shadow...men's depraved judgments and affections, yet truth, which only doth judge itself, teacheth that the inquiry of truth, which is the love-making, or wooing... | |
 | Francis Bacon - Conduct of life - 1818 - 312 pages
...unpleasing to themselves 1 One of the Fathers in great severity called Poesy, " the wine of Dasmons," because it filleth the imagination, and yet it is...men's depraved judgments and affections ; yet Truth, which only doth judge itself, teacheth, that the inquiry of Truth, which is the love-making, or wooing... | |
 | Francis Bacon (visct. St. Albans.) - 1818 - 310 pages
...unpleasing to themselves ? One of the Fathers in great severity called Poesy, " the wine of Daemons," because it filleth the imagination, and yet it is...men's depraved judgments and affections; yet Truth, which only doth judge itself, teacheth, that the inquiry of Truth, which is the love-making, or wooing... | |
 | Francis Bacon (visct. St. Albans.) - 1819 - 602 pages
...and unpleasing to themselves ? One of the fathers, in great severity, called poesy, vinum dcemonum ; because it filleth the imagination, and yet it is but with the shadow of a lye. But it is not the lye that passeth through the mind, but the lye that sinketh in, and settleth... | |
 | Francis Bacon - English essays - 1820 - 548 pages
...and unpleasing to themselves? One of the fathers, in great severity, called poesy, " vinum daemonum," because it filleth the imagination, and yet it is...But it is not the lie that passeth through the mind, -out the lie, that sinketh in and settleth in it, that doth the hurt, such as we spake of before. But... | |
 | British prose literature - 1821 - 416 pages
...uupleasing to themselves ? One of the fathers, in great severity, called poesy, " vinum daemonum," becanse it filleth the imagination, and yet it is but with...lie that passeth through the mind, but the lie, that sinkcth in and settleth in it, that doth the hurt, such as we spake of before. But howsoever these... | |
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One of the fathers, in great severity, called poesy vinum daemonum, 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, that... 
