 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
 | Francis Bacon - English essays - 1822 - 238 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 stately...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 (visct. St. Albans.) - 1822 - 234 pages
...stately and daintily as candlelights. Truth may perhaps come to the price of a pearl, that showetb. best by day ; but it will not rise to the price of...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 - English essays - 1824 - 598 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,...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... | |
 | Francis Bacon - English prose literature - 1825 - 524 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...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... | |
 | Francis Bacon, Basil Montagu - 1825 - 550 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 daemonum," because it filleththe imagination, and yet it is but with the shadow of a lie. But it is... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1825 - 538 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 daemonum," because it filleththe imagination, and yet it is but with the shadow of a lie. But it is... | |
 | George Walker - English prose literature - 1825 - 668 pages
...ever add pleasure. Doth any man doubt, that if there were taken out of men's minds, vain opiiiions, flattering hopes, false valuations, imaginations as...the fathers, in great severity, called poesy, vinum dcemonum ; because it filleth the imagination, and yet it is but the shadow of a lie. But it is not... | |
 | Richard Alfred Davenport - Classical poetry - 1827 - 402 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...number of men poor shrunken things, full of melancholy indisposition, and unpleasing to themselves ? One of the fathers, in great severity, called poesy,... | |
 | New elegant extracts, Richard Alfred Davenport - English literature - 1827 - 408 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...number of men poor shrunken things, full of melancholy indisposition, and unpleasing to themselves ? One of the fathers, in great severity, called poesy,... | |
 | Richard Alfred Davenport - Classical poetry - 1827 - 404 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...number of men poor shrunken things, full of melancholy indisposition, and unpleasing to themselves ? One of the fathers, in great severity, called poesy,... | |
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