 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 candlelights.  The Quarterly Review - Page 2361856Full view - About this book
 | George Walker - English prose literature - 1825 - 668 pages
...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, Basil Montagu - 1825 - 550 pages
...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 the... | |
 | Francis Bacon - English prose literature - 1825 - 524 pages
...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 ad candle-lights. Truth may perhaps come to the price of a pearl, that sheweth best by day, but it... | |
 | Thomas Moore - Dramatists, English - 1826 - 570 pages
...assigned as a reason for this evident revolution in Parliamentary taste. " Truth," says Lord Bacon, " is a naked and open daylight, that doth not show the masques, and mummeries, and triumphs of the present world half so stately and daintily as candlelights;" — and there can be little doubt that... | |
 | James Amiraux Jeremie - 1826 - 102 pages
...been observed by the great Bacon: " This same truth is a naked and open daylight, that doth not shew the masques, and mummeries, and triumphs of the world half so stately and daintily as candlelights....A mixture of a lie doth ever add pleasure, &c. (Essays.) Man is an imaginative being.... | |
 | New elegant extracts, Richard Alfred Davenport - English literature - 1827 - 408 pages
...poets; nor for advantage, as with the merchant; but for the lie's sake. But I cannot tell: this same truth is a naked and open daylight, that doth not...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 the... | |
 | New elegant extracts, Richard Alfred Davenport - English literature - 1827 - 412 pages
...poets ; nor for advantage, as with the merchant; but for the lie's sake. But I cannot tell : this same truth is a naked and open daylight, that doth not...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 the... | |
 | Richard Alfred Davenport - Classical poetry - 1827 - 404 pages
...poets ; nor for advantage, as with the merchant; but for the lie's sake. But I cannot tell : this same truth is a naked and open daylight, that doth not...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 the... | |
 | Richard Alfred Davenport - Classical poetry - 1827 - 402 pages
...poets ; nor for advantage, as with the merchant; but for the lie's sake. But I cannot tell : this same truth is a naked and open daylight, that doth not...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 the... | |
 | Richard Alfred Davenport - 1827 - 494 pages
...poets ; nor for advantage, as with the merchant; but for the lie's sake. But I cannot tell : this same truth is a naked and open daylight, that doth not...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 the... | |
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