 | Francis Bacon - Conduct of life - 1720 - 528 pages
...Men's Minds, vain Opinions, flattering Hopes, falfe Valuations of Things, Imaginations at Pleafure, and the like ; but it would leave the Minds of a Number of Men poor dejefted Ihrunken Things, full of Melancholy and Languor, and uneafy and unpleafmg to themfelves? ONE... | |
 | David Lloyd - Favorites, Royal - 1766 - 608 pages
...valua" tions, imaginations as one would, and the " like * vinum detnoKuw, as a father calls poetry, " but it would leave the minds of a number of " men, poor fnrunken things, full of melancho" ly, and indifpofition, and unpleafmg to them«' felves." " Clear... | |
 | 1801 - 446 pages
...deprived of vain opinions, flattering hopes, false valuations, imaginations as one would, and the like, it would leave the minds of a number of men poor shrunken things, full of fear, melancholy, and indisposition. One of the fathers, in great severity, called poesy " 'vinum damonum"... | |
 | 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,...melancholy and indisposition, and unpleasing to themselves. One of the fathers, in great severity, called poesy, riinn/t divmonum, the devil's wine, because it... | |
 | Francis Bacon - English essays - 1812 - 348 pages
...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...things, full of melancholy and indisposition, and unpl easing to themselves? One of the fathers, in great severity, called poesy, " vinum daemonum,"... | |
 | Samuel Taylor Coleridge - Ethics - 1812 - 466 pages
...false valuations, imaginations as one would, and the like vinum Dsemonum (as a Father calleth poetry) but it would leave the minds of a number of men poor...melancholy and Indisposition, and unpleasing to themselves ? '' This formidable Objection, (which however grounds itself on the false assumption, that I wage... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1815 - 310 pages
...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...melancholy and indisposition, and unpleasing to themselves? One of the fathers, in great severity, called poesy, " vinum " da;monum," because it fi'leth the imagination,... | |
 | Francis Bacon (visct. St. Albans.) - 1818 - 310 pages
...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...melancholy and indisposition, and unpleasing to themselves ? One of the Fathers in great severity called Poesy, " the wine of Daemons," because it filleth the... | |
 | Francis Bacon - Conduct of life - 1818 - 312 pages
...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...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 - 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,...melancholy and indisposition, and unpleasing to themselves ? One of the fathers, in great severity, called poesy, vinum dcemontim ; because it fiUeth the imagination,... | |
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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,... 
