 | George Henry Townsend - 1857 - 136 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...indisposition, and unpleasing to themselves ? One of the fathers, in great severity, called poesy vinum dcemonum, because it filleth the imagination,... | |
 | William Wordsworth - English poetry - 1857 - 480 pages
...mummeries, and triumphs of the world half so stately and daintily as candle-lights. Doth any man doubt that if there were taken out of men's minds, vain...number of men, poor shrunken things, full of melancholy indisposition, and unpleasing to themselves ? " It is because ordinary human nature answers so well... | |
 | George Henry Townsend - 1857 - 140 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...number of men poor shrunken things, full of melancholy .^nd indisposition, and unpleasing to themselves ? One of the fathers, in great severity, called poesy... | |
 | Francis Bacon - English literature - 1858 - 812 pages
...that sheweth 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,...would, and the like, but it would leave the minds 1 Cogitatimum vertigine. * inytnia quadam ventota ct ditcuriantia. * KM qua t* t& ia 1 1 Hi -i cogitaiionibtu... | |
 | Francis Bacon, Richard Whately - Conduct of life - 1857 - 578 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,...flattering hopes, false valuations, imaginations as one would,1 and the like, but it would leave the minds of a number of men poor shrunken things, full of... | |
 | Lisa Jardine - Science - 1974 - 300 pages
...into that of truth as occasional lying - day-to-day misrepresentation of facts: Doth any man doubt, that if there were taken out of men's minds vain opinions,...melancholy and indisposition, and unpleasing to themselves? [VI, 377] The observation that unrelenting truthfulness in appraisal of a man's situation would produce... | |
 | Anne Drury Hall - Literary Criticism - 2010 - 217 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,...melancholy and indisposition, and unpleasing to themselves? 95 Nor is it Gibbon's in his description of the monastic saints: The favourites of Heaven were accustomed... | |
 | Robert L. Montgomery - Literary Criticism - 2010 - 229 pages
...pleasure. Doth any man doubl. that if there were taken out of men's minds vain opinions, ftattering hopes, false valuations. imaginations as one would,...but it would leave the minds of a number of men poor shranken things. full of melancholy and indisposiiion, and anplrasing to themselves? —Francis Bacon,... | |
 | John Bryant - Literary Criticism - 1993 - 331 pages
...occasional lie, rather than impeding consciousness, smooths its flow. He writes: Doth any man doubt that, if there were taken out of men's minds vain...melancholy and indisposition and unpleasing to themselves. 8 We are shrunken things without our "imaginations," but in confusing "false valuations" with true,... | |
 | John Arundel Barnes - Family & Relationships - 1994 - 222 pages
...Brobdingnag and seem to confirm Francis Bacon's (1861a:377-378) rhetorical question: Doth any man doubt, that if there were taken out of men's minds vain opinions,...melancholy and indisposition, and unpleasing to themselves? Bok (1978:18) points to an acceptable intermediate state of affairs when she asserts that 'some level... | |
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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,... 
