 | Francis Bacon (visct. St. Albans.) - 1864 - 638 pàgines
...masques and mummeries, and triumphs of the world, half so stately and, daintily 4 as candlelights. Truth may perhaps come to the price of a pearl, that...best by day ; but it will not rise to the price of a i Affect. To aim at ; endearour after. ' This proud man affects imperial sway.' — Dryden. * Diaconreing.... | |
 | Samuel Taylor Coleridge - 1865 - 562 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 in varied lights. A mixture of a lie doth evei add pleasure. Doth any man doubt that if there were taken from men's minds, vain opinions, flattering... | |
 | John Greenleaf Whittier - 1866 - 416 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,... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1867 - 440 pàgines
...and mixed ; and let the masquers, or any other that are [6] so stately and daintily as candle-lights. Truth may perhaps come to the price of a pearl, that showeth to come down from the scene, have some motions upon the scene itself before coming' down ; for it draws... | |
 | Joseph Payne - 1868 - 530 pàgines
...half so stately and daintily (delicately) as candlelights. Truth may, perhaps, come to the price,4 of a pearl that showeth best by day; but it will not...mixture of a lie doth ever add pleasure. Doth any man (1) This essay first appeared in the revised edition of 1625. (2) Whately well remarks, that " never... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1868 - 786 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 ; endeawmr after. ' This proud man affectt imperial sway.' — Dryden. ' Discoursing.... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1868 - 472 pàgines
...Stately, and daintily, as Candlelights. Truth may perhaps come to the price of a Pearle, 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 adde Pleasure. Doth any man doubt, that... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1868 - 458 pàgines
...price of a Diamond, or Carbuncle, that sheweth best in varied lights. A mixture of a Lie doth ever adde Pleasure. Doth any man doubt, that if there were taken out of Mens Mindes, Vaine Opinions, Flattering Hopes, False valuations, Imaginations as one would, and the... | |
 | Henry Lewis (M.A.) - 1869 - 196 pàgines
...the sentences or phrases in a period, when they are already separated from each other by commas. " Truth may perhaps come to the price of a pearl, that...; but it will not rise to the price of a diamond, that showeth best in varied lights." " I testified the pleasure I should have in his company ; .and... | |
 | 1871
...stately and daintily as candle-light. 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 a carbuncle that sheweth best in varied lights. A mixture of a lie doth ever add pleasure. Doth any... | |
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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. 
