 | John Dennis - 1876 - 466 páginas
...Poetry, in Lord Bacon's judgment, fills the imagination with the shadow of a lie, but he adds that "it is not the lie that passeth through the mind,...but the lie that sinketh in and settleth in it that doeth the hurt." That Pope, having found or invented a romantic heroine, should have linked his fate... | |
 | Charles Mackay - 1876 - 654 páginas
...DOTH EVEII ADD A PLEASUUE. One of the fathers, in great severity, called poesy, " the wine of demons," because it filleth the imagination, and yet it is but with the shadow of a lie.' So said the great philosopher ; and so too many have believed, because they were told to believe by... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1876 - 504 páginas
...uses again in Essay i. p. 2 : ' One of the fathers, in great severity, called poesie vinum dcemonum; because it filleth the imagination, and yet it is, but with the shadow of a lie.' [28] Aristotle, Eth. Nic. i. 3. 5. Mr. Ellis, in his note on the corresponding passage of the De Augmentis,... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1877 - 1014 páginas
...themselves ? One of the Fathers, in great severity, called poesy vinum dcemmum [devil's-wine], • because it filleth the imagination; and yet it is...men's depraved judgments and affections, yet truth, I which only doth judge itself, teacheth that the inquiry of truth, which is the love-making or wooing... | |
 | Francis Bacon (visct. St. Albans.) - 1877 - 782 páginas
...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 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 (visct. St. Albans.) - 1878 - 246 páginas
...unpleasing to themselves? One of the fathers, in great severity, called poesy 'vt'num dcemonum,'™ because it filleth the imagination, and yet it is...it, that doth the hurt, such as we spake of before. ing is the honour of man's nature, and that mixture of falsehood is like alloy in coin of gold and... | |
 | 1878 - 636 páginas
...now only remember Bacon's remark : — " A mixture of a lie doth ever add pleasure." And again : " It is not the lie that passeth through the mind, but...sinketh in and settleth in it that doth the hurt." We have kept the truest and best remark — the good wine until the end. THE CHURCH AND THE DISSENTERS.... | |
 | Homer Baxter Sprague - 1874 - 462 páginas
...impleasing to themselves? One of the fathers, in great severity, called poesy* ' ' vinum dœmonum, " because it filleth the imagination, and yet it is but with the shadow of a lie. liut it is not the lie that passeth through the mind, but the lie that sinketh in and settleth in it,... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1879 - 356 páginas
...and unpleasing to themselves? One of the fathers, in great severity, called poesy 'vinum damonum,'™ because it filleth the imagination, and yet it is...that doth the hurt, such as we spake of before. But howsoever20 these things are thus in men's depraved judgments and affections, yet Truth, which only... | |
 | Francis Bacon (visct. St. Albans.) - 1879 - 272 páginas
...and unpleasing to themselves ? One 30 of the fathers, in great severity, called poesy vinum d<zmonum, because it filleth the imagination, and yet it is...that doth the hurt such as we spake of before. But 35 howsoever these things are thus in men's depraved judgments and affections, yet truth, which only... | |
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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... 
