 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
 | George Lillie Craik - 1846 - 226 pages
...stately and daintily as candle-lights. Truth may perhaps come to the price of a pearl, lhat ahoweth best by day ; but it will not rise to the price of...things, full of melancholy and indisposition, and unpleaslng to themselves. One of the Fathers, in great severity, called poesy ' Vinum Daemonnm,'* because... | |
 | John Locke - Intellect - 1849 - 372 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...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... | |
 | Electronic journals - 1858 - 682 pages
...421.) I send a few additional Notes : — I. "A mixture of a Lie doth ever add Pleasure. Doth any roan doubt, that if there were taken out of Men's minds...One of the Fathers, in great severity, called Poesy, Vinmn Daimonum • because it filleth the Imagination, and yet it is but with the Shadow of a Lie."... | |
 | Francis Bacon (visct. St. Albans.) - 1851 - 228 pages
...disserted much on the question what tit truth? and held the doctrine that man has no criterion of it. world half so stately and daintily as candle-lights....fathers, in great severity, called poesy, " vinum daBmonum, " because it filleth the imagination, and yet it is but with the shadow of a lie. But it... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1852 - 580 pages
...bring lies in favour, but a natural though corrupt love of the lie itself. One of the later schools of the Grecians examineth the matter, and is at a...of melancholy and indisposition, and unpleasing to themselves1? One of the fathers, in great severity, called poesy " vinum daempnum," because it filleth... | |
 | Francis Bacon - Ethics - 1854 - 894 pages
...mummeries, and triumphs of the world, half so stately and daintily as candle-lights. Truth may perhaps rome to the price of a pearl, that showeth best by day...like; but it would leave the minds of a number of men I>oor shrunken things ; full of melancholy and indisposition, and unpleasing to themselves ? One of... | |
 | Julius Charles Hare - 1855 - 536 pages
...the masks and mummeries and triumphs of the world half so stately and daintily as candle-lights. — A mixture of a lie doth ever add pleasure. Doth any...melancholy and indisposition, and unpleasing to themselves ? — But howsoever these things are thus in men's depraved judgements and affections, yet Truth, which... | |
 | Francis Bacon - English essays - 1856 - 406 pages
...unsatisfactory conclusion, that mankind has no criterion by which to form a judgment; for advanta e, as with the merchant, but for the lie's sake. But...indisposition, and unpleasing to themselves? One of the fathers,1 in great severity, called poesy " vinum doemonum," 2 because it filleth the imagination,... | |
 | Francis Bacon (visct. St. Albans.) - 1856 - 562 pages
...Walts. * Daintily. Elegantly. 'The Duke exceeded in that his leg was daintily formed.' — Wot ton. B price of a diamond or carbuncle, that showeth best...things, full of melancholy and indisposition, and unpleasing2 to themselves? One of the fathers, in great severity, called poesy ' vinum daemonum,'3... | |
 | George Henry Townsend - 1857 - 136 pages
...ancient as well as modern, the author will not have written in vain. LONDON, January 26(/i, 1857. " TRUTH may perhaps come to the price of a pearl, that...the fathers, in great severity, called poesy vinum dcemonum, because it filleth the imagination, and yet it is but with the shadow of a lie. But it is... | |
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