 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
 | Charles Edward De Coetlogon - Christianity - 1807 - 586 pages
...love Lits. But, I cannot tell ; this same Truth is a naked and open day. lighr, that doth not shew 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... | |
 | Charles Edward De Coetlogon - Christianity - 1807 - 588 pages
...should love Lies. Bur, I cannot tell ; 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 candle-lights. Doth any man doubt, that, if there were taken out of men's minds vain opinions, flattering hopes, false... | |
 | Francis Bacon - English essays - 1812 - 348 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... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1815 - 310 pages
...the lie's sake. But I cannot tell : 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. 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.) - 1819 - 602 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 - Philosophy - 1819 - 580 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 randle-lights. Truth may perhaps come to the price of a pearl, that sheweth best by day : but it will... | |
 | Francis Bacon - English essays - 1820 - 548 pages
...the lie's 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 candlelights. Truth may perhaps come to the price of a pearl, that sheweth best by day; but it will not rise to the... | |
 | Thomas Moore - Dramatists - 1825 - 654 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 candle-lights;" — and there can be little doubt that... | |
 | English literature - 1825 - 542 pages
...perhaps, be assigned for this evident revolution in parliamentary taste. " 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 daiatily as candle-light ;" and there can be little doubt that the... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1825 - 538 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... | |
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