 | Francis Bacon - 1720 - 556 Seiten
...Poefie, the Wine of T)evils* becmfe xt ft\\s the Imagination with vain Things; though Poefie is but the Shadow of a Lie. But it is not the Lie, that paiTes through the Mind, that does the Hurt; but the Lie that finks in, and fettles in it ; fuch I... | |
 | 1801 - 446 Seiten
...melancholy, and indisposition. One of the fathers, in great severity, called poesy " 'vinum damonum" because it filleth the imagination, and yet it is but with the shadow of a lie. it is not the lie which darts through the mind; but the lie that sinketh in, that doth the hurt. You... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray (IV), Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle) - 1843 - 626 Seiten
...paradoxical ; but, as Lord Bacon says, ' Works of imagination hurt not a child : taking them at the worst, it is not the lie that passeth through the mind, but the lie that sinketh in, and settlclh in it, which doth the hurt ;' and it may be justly questioned whether, in banishing the world... | |
 | Manual - 1809 - 288 Seiten
...the fathers, in great severity, called poesy, riinn/t divmonum, the devil's wine, because it fills the imagination, and yet it is but with the shadow of a lie. It is not, however, the lie that passes through the mind, but the lie that sinks in, and settles in... | |
 | Francis Bacon (visct. St. Albans.) - 1819 - 602 Seiten
...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,...imagination, and yet it is but with the shadow of a lye. But it is not the lye that passeth through the mind, but the lye that sinketh in, and settleth... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1819 - 580 Seiten
...themselves ? One of the fathers, in great severity, called poesy, vinum dcemontim ; because it fiUeth the imagination, and yet it is but with the shadow of a lye. But it is not the lye that passeth through the mind, but the lye that sinketh in, and settleth... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1820 - 548 Seiten
...and unpleasing to themselves? One of the fathers, in great severity, called poesy, " vinum daemonum," because it filleth the imagination, and yet it is...But it is not the lie that passeth through the mind, -out the lie, that sinketh in and settleth in it, that doth the hurt, such as we spake of before. But... | |
 | 1821 - 416 Seiten
...uupleasing to themselves ? One of the fathers, in great severity, called poesy, " vinum daemonum," becanse it filleth the imagination, and yet it is but with...lie that passeth through the mind, but the lie, that sinkcth in and settleth in it, that doth the hurt, such as we spake of before. But howsoever these... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1824 - 598 Seiten
...pleasure. Doth any man doubt, that if there were taken out of men's minds, vain opinions, nattering hopes, false valuations, imaginations as one would,...imagination, and yet it is but with the shadow of a lye. But it is not the lye that passeth through the mind, but the lye that sinketh in, and settleth... | |
 | Richard Alfred Davenport - 1827 - 402 Seiten
...unpleasing to themselves ? One of the fathers, in great severity, called poesy, " vinum daemonum," because it filleth the imagination, and yet it is...the lie that passeth through the mind, but the lie, thatsinketh in and settleth in it, that doth the hurt, such as we spake of before. But howsoever these... | |
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But it is not the lie that passeth through the mind, but the lie that sinketh in and settleth in it, that doth the hurt, such as we spake of before. 
