 | Henry Dunn - 1839 - 302 páginas
...vain hopes and false valuations. Men do not generally love truth. " This same truth (says Lord Bacon) is a naked and 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. Doth any man doubt, that if there were... | |
 | Henry Dunn - 1839 - 238 páginas
...vain hopes and false valuations. Men do not generally love truth. " This same truth (says Lord Bacon) is a naked and 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. Doth any man doubt, that if there were... | |
 | Francis Bacon (visct. St. Albans.) - 1840 - 244 páginas
...think what should be in it, that men should love lies ; where neither they make for pleasure, as with poets; nor for advantage, as with the merchant, but...a naked 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... | |
 | Samuel Taylor Coleridge - 1840 - 582 páginas
...think what should be in it that men should love lies, where neither they make for pleasure, as with d me, I find myself upon the brow, nnd pause Startled ! Anil after lonely I cannot tell why, this same truth is a naked and open day-light, that doth nut show the masques and... | |
 | John Holmes Agnew, Walter Hilliard Bidwell, Henry T. Steele - 1847 - 606 páginas
...think what should be in it, that men should love lies, where neither they make for pleasure, as with poets, nor for advantage, as with the merchant ; BUT FOR THE LIE'S SAKE. But I (•-iiniot tell : this same truth is a naked and open daylight that doth not show the masques, and... | |
 | George Lillie Craik - 1845 - 484 páginas
...thinking of Bacon, or fresh from the reading of the passage in his Essay on Truth, in which he says, " 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 lights. A mixture... | |
 | John Seely Hart - 1845 - 404 páginas
...think what should be in it that men should love lies ; where neither they make for pleasure, as with poets, nor for advantage, as with the merchant, but...This same truth is a naked and open daylight, that does not show the masks, and mummeries, and triumphs of the world, half so stately and daintily as... | |
 | Samuel Taylor Coleridge - 1845 - 582 páginas
...as with poete ; nor for advantage, as with the merchant ; hut lor the lie's sake. I cannot tell why, , the day-light fled, And the night-wind clamors hoarse...! the starting wretch's head Liée pillow'd on a present world half so stately and daintily, as candle-lights. Truth may perhaps come to the price of... | |
 | George Lillie Craik - 1846 - 732 páginas
...; where neither they make for pleasure, as with poets, nor for advantagr, as with the merchant, hut for the lie's sake. But I cannot tell: this same Truth...that doth not show the masques, and mummeries, and trinmphs of the world, half so stately and daintily as candle-lights. Truth may perhaps come to the... | |
 | Francis Bacon, Basil Montagu - 1848 - 594 páginas
...think what should be in it, that men should love lies; where neither they make for pleasure, as with poets ; nor for advantage, as with the merchant, but...a naked and open daylight, that doth not show the masks, and mummeries, and triumphs of the world, half so stately and daintily as candlelights. Truth... | |
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One of the later school of the Grecians examineth the matter, and is at a stand to think what should be in it, that men should love lies, where neither they make for pleasure, as with poets, nor for advantage, as with the merchant; but for the lie's sake. 
