 | English literature - 1843 - 594 pages
...valuations, imaginations as one would say, and the like vinum Dcemanum, (as a Father calleth poetry,) but it would leave the minds of a number of men poor...melancholy and indisposition, and unpleasing to themselves ?' It would now be more to the purpose to enquire, 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... | |
 | 1843 - 594 pages
...says, ' A mixture of lies doth ever add ' pleasure. Doth any man doubt, that, if there were taken from men's minds vain opinions, flattering hopes, false valuations, imaginations as one would say, and the like vinum Damonum, (as a Father calleth poetry,) but it would leave the minds of a number... | |
 | John Holmes Agnew - American periodicals - 1843 - 612 pages
...says, "A mixture of lies doth ever add pleasure. Doth any man doubt, that, if there were taken from men's minds vain opinions, flattering hopes, false valuations, imaginations as one would say, and the like vinum Damonum, (as a Father calleth poetry,) but it would leave the minds of a number... | |
 | 1843 - 602 pages
...says, "A mixture of lies doth ever add pleasure. Doth any man doubt, that, if there were taken from men's minds vain opinions, flattering hopes, false valuations, imaginations as one would say, and the like vinum Damonum, (as a Father calleth poetry,) but it would leave the minds of a number... | |
 | George Lillie Craik - English language - 1845 - 484 pages
...stately and daintily as candle 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...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
...showeth best in varied lights. 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,...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
...that showeth best in varied 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,...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
...that showeth best in varied 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,...things, full of melancholy and indisposition, and unpleaslng to themselves. One of the Fathers, in great severity, called poesy ' Vinum Daemonnm,'* because... | |
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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,... 
