...show the masks, and mummeries, and triumphs of the world half so stately and daintily as candlelights A mixture of a lie doth ever add pleasure. Doth any...melancholy and indisposition, and unpleasing to themselves ?" Swift, with the phraseology of this passage apparently runnjng in his head, goes on to condemn the...

...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...things, full of melancholy and indisposition, and unpleasiug to themselves. One of the Fathers, in great severity, called poesy ' Vinum Daraonum,'* because...

...philosophers and casuists argue and sneer. " Doth any man doubt," says Francis Bacon (of truth), " that if there were taken out of men's minds vain opinions,...melancholy and indisposition, and unpleasing to themselves ?" Apply this to supposed religious truths, such as those of the Papal Church for instance, and we...

...as was in those of the ancients. But it is not only the difficulty and labour which men take in the finding out of truth; nor again, that when it is found,...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...

...discoursing wits, which are of the same veins, though there be not so much blood in them, as was in those of ence due to them ? \\V must have recourse to the old...Johnson to fill that great and arduous post. And D&monum,1 because it filleth the imagination, and yet it is but with the shadow of a lie. But it is...

...when an elderly gentleman of another college came into the room, took up the book, and read aloud, " This same truth is a naked and open daylight, that...indisposition, and unpleasing to themselves." " One might well imagine," said he, " unpleasing to themselves, if full of melancholy and indisposition....

...and was twelve shillings further off being able to pay it than he had been last night. CHAPTEE XI. " Truth may perhaps come to the price of a pearl that...melancholy and indisposition and unpleasing to themselves." — Bacon. " IT'S the most unaccountable proceeding I ever remember to have heard of. Disappear in...

...that sheweth best in varied lights. A mixture of a lie doth ever add pleasure. Doth any man doubt, 25 that if there were taken out of men's minds vain opinions,...indisposition, and unpleasing to themselves ? One 30 of the fathers, in great severity, called poesy vinum damonum, because it filleth the imagination,...

...things about a man are his ideals and over beliefs.' ' Doth any man doubt/ wrote Bacon, ' that if these were taken out of men's minds, vain opinions, flattering...melancholy and indisposition and unpleasing to themselves ? ' Miss Yonge's ideals are certainly not of this stuff, but even they who might think them so must...

...carbuncle, that showeth best 'n varied lights. A mixture of a lye doth ever add pleasure. Doth ,;nyman doubt, that if there were taken out of men's minds,...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...