 | Jakob Olaus Løkke - 1875 - 556 pages
...merchant; but for the 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...world, half so stately and daintily as candlelights. Truth may, perhaps, come to the price of a pearl, that showeth best by day; but it will not rise to... | |
 | Newton Abbot College - 1875 - 354 pages
...be swallowed, and some few to be chewed and digested. 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 candlelight. No pleasure is comparable to the standing upon the vantage ground of truth. In great place... | |
 | Walter Savage Landor - 1876 - 562 pages
...came into the room, took up the book, and read aloud, " This same truth is a naked and open daylight, that doth not show the masks, and mummeries, and triumphs...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... | |
 | Cassell, ltd - 1876 - 466 pages
...merchant ; but for the lie's sake. But I cannot tell : this same truth is a naked and open daylight, ere and miserable solitude, to want true friends,...the world is but a wilderness : and even in this sen Truth may perhaps come to the price of a pearl that showeth best by day : but it will not rise to the... | |
 | Francis Bacon (visct. St. Albans.) - 1876 - 300 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 20 VOL. I. B 2 ©f tltrut!) [Essay I perhaps come to the price of a pearl, that sheweth best... | |
 | Henry Norman Hudson - 1876 - 660 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 the... | |
 | Walter Savage Landor - 1927 - 318 pages
...came into the room, took up the book, and read aloud, " This same truth is a naked and open daylight, that doth not show the masks, and mummeries, and triumphs...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... | |
 | George Reuben Potter - 1928 - 640 pages
...merchant; but for the lie's sake. But I cannot tell; this same truth is a naked and open day-light, that doth not show the masks and mummeries and triumphs...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... | |
 | 1909 - 378 pages
...merchant ; but for the lie's sake. But I cannot tell ; this same truth is a naked and open day-light, that doth not show the masks and mummeries and triumphs...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... | |
 | William Blake - 1966 - 964 pages
...sake. But I cannot tell: this same truth is a naked and open da) light, that doth not shew the masques, and mummeries, and triumphs of the world half so stately and daintily as candlelights . . . But howsoever these things are thus in men's depraved judgments and affections, yet truth, which only doth... | |
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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. 
