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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. "
The Eclectic Magazine of Foreign Literature, Science, and Art - Página 100
1848
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Eclectic Magazine: Foreign Literature, Volume 40

John Holmes Agnew, Walter Hilliard Bidwell - 1857 - 588 páginas
...assigns as the reason for it, "that 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." Unless the lie looked more attractive than the truth, no one would prefer it, but, we believe, in every...
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The Earlier Poems of William Wordsworth: Corrected as in the Latest Editions ...

William Wordsworth - 1857 - 480 páginas
...poetry. "Thi* same truth," says Lord Bacon, " 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. Doth any man doubt that if there were taken out of men's minds, vain opinions, flattering hopes, false...
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The Eclectic Magazine of Foreign Literature, Science, and Art, Volume 40

1857 - 602 páginas
...assigns as the reason for it, "that 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." Unless the lie looked more attractive than the truth, no one would prefer it, but, we believe, in every...
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Under Green Leaves

Charles Mackay - 1857 - 874 páginas
...sake. But I cannot tell : this same truth is n naked and open daylight that doth not show the masques, and mummeries, and triumphs of the world half so stately and daintily as candlelight. Truth may, perhaps, come to the price of a pearl, that showeth best by day, but it will...
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Works: Collected and Edited by James Spedding, Robert Leslie Ellis ..., Volume 6

Francis Bacon - 1858 - 790 páginas
...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...
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The Guardian, Volumes 10-11

1859 - 802 páginas
...— this same truth is a plain thing; it is an open day-light, which shows not the processions mid mummeries, and triumphs of the world, half so stately and daintily, as candle-lights do. Truth may perhaps be rated as a pearl which appears best by day, but it will not rise in general...
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Six Months in Italy

George Stillman Hillard - 1860 - 588 páginas
...presence of sunshine. ' Truth,' says Lord Bacon, with great beauty, ' 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.' Thanks to these ' candle-lights,' we want nothing but stucco, gilded wood, and painted canvas to produce...
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A Compendious History of English Literature and of the English ..., Volume 2

George Lillie Craik - 1861 - 580 páginas
...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...world half so stately and daintily as candlelights A mixture of a lie doth ever add pleasure. Doth any man doubt, that, if there were taken out of men's...
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The Essays, Or, Counsels, Civil and Moral: And, The Wisdom of the Ancients

Francis Bacon - 1861 - 408 páginas
...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 of the world, half so stately and daintily as candlerlights. Truth may perhaps come to the price of a pearl, that showeth best by day, but it will...
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Bacon's Essays

Francis Bacon, Richard Whately - 1861 - 630 páginas
...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...
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