 | Samuel Taylor Coleridge - 1853 - 566 pàgines
...the masques and mummeries and triumphs of the world half so stately and daintily, as candle-lights. Truth may perhaps come to the price of a pearl, that...pleasure. Doth any man doubt, that if there were taken from men's minds, vain opinions, flattering hopes, false valuations, imaginations as one would, and... | |
 | Francis Bacon (visct. St. Albans.) - 1853 - 176 pàgines
...the masques, and mummeries, and triumphs of the world half so stately and daintily as candle-lights. Truth may perhaps come to the price of a pearl, that showeth best by day; out it will not rise to the price of a diamond or carbuncle, that showeth best in varied lights. A... | |
 | Samuel Taylor Coleridge - 1854 - 568 pàgines
...the masques and mummeries and triumphs of the world half so stately and daintily, as candle-lights. Truth may perhaps come to the price of a pearl, that...pleasure. Doth any man doubt that if there were taken from men's minds, vain opinions, flattering hopes, false valuations, imaginations as one would, and... | |
 | John Locke - 1854 - 560 pàgines
...daintily as candle light. Truth may perhaps come to the price of a pearl, that .- 1 1 1 1 v. ! -i 1 1 best by day ; but it will not rise to the price of...diamond or carbuncle, that showeth best in varied light. A mixture of a lie doth ever add pleasure." But if there be a pleasure in lying, or in believing... | |
 | John Greenleaf Whittier - 1854 - 452 pàgines
...from a profound knowledge of human nature that Lord Bacon, in discoursing upon truth, remarked that a mixture of a lie doth ever add pleasure. " Doth any man doubt," he asks, " that if there were taken out of men's minds vain opinions, flattering hopes, false valuations,... | |
 | Johann Wolfgang von Goethe - 1855 - 318 pàgines
...masques, and mummeries, and triumphs of the present world, half so stately and daintily as candle-lights. Truth may perhaps come to the price of a pearl, that showeth best hy day ; hut it will not rise to the price of a diamond or carbuncle, which showeth best in varied... | |
 | Johann Wolfgang von Goethe - 1856 - 344 pàgines
...masques, and mummeries, and triumphs of the present world, half so stately and daintily as candle-lights. Truth may perhaps come to the price of a pearl that...will not rise to the price of a diamond or carbuncle, which showeth best in varied lights. A mixture cf. lies doth ever add pleasure. Doth any man doubt,... | |
 | Francis Bacon (visct. St. Albans.) - 1856 - 562 pàgines
...masques, and mummeries, and triumphs of the world, half so stately and daintily4 as candle-lights. Truth may perhaps come to the price of a pearl, that...showeth best by day ; but it will not rise to the 1 Affect. To aim at; endeavour afler. 'Thls proud man affects imperial sway.' — Dryden. 1 Discoursing.... | |
 | 1008 pàgines
...is tempted to cite Bacon, with a writer in the last number of the "Quarterly Review," and to say — "A mixture of a lie doth ever add pleasure. Doth any man doubt that if there were taken from men's minds vain opinions, flattering hopes, imaginations u one wonld, and the like, bat it would... | |
 | William Russell - 1856 - 240 pàgines
...stately and daintily as candlelights. Truth may, perhaps, come to the price of a pearl, that sheweth best by day ; but it will not 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... | |
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Truth may perhaps come to the price of a pearl, that showeth best by day ; but it will not rise to the price of a diamond or carbuncle, that showeth best in varied lights. 
