 | Derwent Coleridge - 1863 - 414 pages
...sake. But I cannot tell : this same truth is a naked and open day-light, that doth not shew 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 sheweth best by day ; but it will not rise to... | |
 | Edward Isidore Sears, David Allyn Gorton, Charles H. Woodman - 1863 - 436 pages
...tone to the lie itself. " This same truth is a naked and open daylight, that doth not show the masques and mummeries and triumphs of the world half so stately and daintily (elegantly) as caudle-lights." He adds: " Doth any man doubt, that if Such persons " count it a bondage... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1864 - 468 pages
...the lie's sake. But I cannot tell : this same truth is a naked and open day-light, that doth not shew 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 sheweth best by day ; but it will not rise to... | |
 | Francis Bacon (visct. St. Albans.) - 1864 - 638 pages
...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 stately and, daintily 4 as candlelights. Truth may perhaps come to the price of a pearl, that showeth best by day ; but it... | |
 | James Lee (M.A.) - 1867 - 484 pages
...that all who learn it immedicularly from the Greek. ' The New ately become Jews.' Even the Faculty not show the masks, and mummeries, and triumphs of the world, half so. stately and gallant as candlelight doth. — Lord Bacon, The adulterators of food or of drugs, and the coiners... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1867 - 440 pages
...elegantly as nocturnal lamps.' Same: What is the force of this adjective a naked and open daylight, that doth not show the masks, and mummeries and triumphs of the world, half here? Point out the metaphor in this sentence. As the sentence stands in the text, what is the object... | |
 | 1871
...false pleasures. ' Truth,' says Bacon, ' is an open and naked daylight that doth not shew the masques, and mummeries, and triumphs of the world half so stately and daintily as candle-light. Truth may, perhaps, come to the price of a pearl that sheweth best by day, but it will... | |
 | English literature - 1874 - 274 pages
...the merchant, but for tho lie's sake. But I cannot tell; this same truth is a naked and open daylight that doth not show the masks and mummeries and triumphs of the world, half so stately and daintily as candle light. Truth may perhaps come to tho price of a pearl that showeth best by day, but it will... | |
 | Homer Baxter Sprague - 1874 - 456 pages
...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 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... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1874 - 700 pages
...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 stately and daintily 4 as candle-lights. Truth may perhaps come to the price of a pearl, that showeth best by day; but it... | |
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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. 
