 | Francis Bacon - 1838 - 898 pages
...and open day-light, that doth not show the masks, 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 ; but it will not rise to the price of a diamond or carbuncle, that showeth best... | |
 | Chandos Leigh - 1839 - 430 pages
...side ? Where sky-born forms are flitting near, To charm it through " the eternal year." NOTHING. " Doth any man doubt, that if there were taken out of men's minds, vain opinions, nattering hopes, false valuations, imaginations as ' one would,' and the like, but it would leave the... | |
 | Samuel Taylor Coleridge - 1840 - 582 pages
...open day-light, that doth nut show the masques and mummeries and triumphs of the present world half so eatre of rich And elmy showeth best by day ; but it will not rise to the price of a diamond or carbuncle, which showeth best... | |
 | Francis Bacon (visct. St. Albans.) - 1840 - 244 pages
...and open day-light, that doth not show the masks, 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, but it will not rise to the price of a diamond or carbuncle, that showeth best... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1841 - 590 pages
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 | 1842 - 146 pages
...place, before they reached it) — this may have been DAVID'S WELL. {To be continued.'} '-J FRAGMENTS. TRUTH may perhaps come to the price of a pearl, that...or carbuncle, that sheweth best in varied lights. — Bacon. In the Scriptures we find four things : — precepts for life ; doctrines for knowledge... | |
 | John Holmes Agnew, Walter Hilliard Bidwell, Henry T. Steele - 1847 - 606 pages
...so stately and daintily as candlelight. 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 a carbuncle, that showeth best in varied lights. A MIXTURE OF A LIE DOTH EVER ADD A PLEASURE. One of... | |
 | John Seely Hart - 1845 - 404 pages
...stately and daintily as candle-light. 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. A mixture of a lie doth ever add pleasure. Doth any man ever doubt,... | |
 | Samuel Taylor Coleridge - 1845 - 582 pages
...open day-light, that doth not show the 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 by day ; but it will not rise to the price of a diamond or carbuncle, which showeth best... | |
 | George Lillie Craik - 1846 - 778 pages
...stately and daintily as candle-lights. Truth may perhaps come to the price of a pearl, Ihat showeth best by day ; but it will not rise to the price of a diamond or carbuncle, that showeth 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 sheweth best by day ; but it will not rise to the price of a diamond or carbuncle, that showeth best in varied lights. A mixture of a lie doth ever add pleasure. 
