 | Francis Bacon - 1720 - 556 pàgines
...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 pàgines
...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 pàgines
...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 pàgines
...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 - 1812 - 348 pàgines
...unpl easing to themselves? One of the fathers, in great severity, called poesy, " vinum daemonum," because it filleth the imagination, and yet it is...howsoever these things are thus in men's depraved judgments and affections, yet truth which only doth judge itself, teacheth that the inquiry of truth,... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1815 - 310 pàgines
...themselves? One of the fathers, in great severity, called poesy, " vinum " da;monum," because it fi'leth the imagination, and yet it is but with the shadow...howsoever these things are thus in men's depraved judgments and affections, yet truth, which only doth judge itself, teacheth that the inquiry of truth,... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1818 - 312 pàgines
...unpleasing to themselves 1 One of the Fathers in great severity called Poesy, " the wine of Dasmons," because it filleth the imagination, and yet it is...howsoever these things are thus in men's depraved judgments and affections ; yet Truth, which only doth judge itself, teacheth, that the inquiry of Truth,... | |
 | Francis Bacon (visct. St. Albans.) - 1818 - 310 pàgines
...unpleasing to themselves ? One of the Fathers in great severity called Poesy, " the wine of Daemons," because it filleth the imagination, and yet it is...howsoever these things are thus in men's depraved judgments and affections; yet Truth, which only doth judge itself, teacheth, that the inquiry of Truth,... | |
 | Francis Bacon (visct. St. Albans.) - 1819 - 602 pàgines
...and unpleasing to themselves ? One of the fathers, in great severity, called poesy, vinum dcemonum ; because it filleth 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 - 1819 - 580 pàgines
...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... | |
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One of 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 not the lie that passeth through the mind, but the lie that sinketh in and settleth in it, that... 
