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| 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 themĀ«' 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,...number of men poor shrunken things, full of melancholy and indisposition, and unpleasing to themselves. One of the fathers, in great severity, called poesy,... | |
| Francis Bacon - English essays - 1812 - 348 pages
...rise to the price of a diamond or carbuncle, that showeth best in varied lights. A mixture of a lie doth ever add pleasure. Doth any man doubt, that if...number of men poor shrunken things, full of melancholy and indisposition, and unpl easing to themselves? One of the fathers, in great severity, called poesy,... | |
| 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 shrunken things, full of melancholy and Indisposition, and unpleasing to themselves ? '' This formidable Objection, (which however grounds... | |
| Francis Bacon - 1815 - 310 pages
...rise to the price of a diamond or carbuncle, that sheweth best in varied lights. A mixture of a lie doth ever add pleasure. Doth any man doubt, that if...number of men, poor shrunken things, full of melancholy and indisposition, and unpleasing to themselves? One of the fathers, in great severity, called poesy,... | |
| Francis Bacon - Conduct of life - 1818 - 312 pages
...rise to the price of a diamond or carbuncle, that showeth best in varied lights. A mixture of a lie doth ever add pleasure. Doth any man doubt, that if...number of men, poor shrunken things, full of melancholy and indisposition, and unpleasing to themselves 1 One of the Fathers in great severity called Poesy,... | |
| Francis Bacon (visct. St. Albans.) - 1818 - 310 pages
...rise to the price of a diamond or carbuncle, that showeth best in varied lights. A mixture of a lie doth ever add pleasure. Doth any man doubt, that if...number of men, poor shrunken things, full of melancholy and indisposition, and unpleasing to themselves ? One of the Fathers in great severity called Poesy,... | |
| Francis Bacon (visct. St. Albans.) - 1819 - 214 pages
...rise to the price of a diamond or carbuncle, that sheweth best in varied lights. A mixture of a lie doth ever add pleasure. Doth any man doubt, that if...melancholy indisposition, and unpleasing to themselves ? One of the -'-fathers, in great severity, called poesy, " vinum daemonum," because it filleth the... | |
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