| Francis Bacon - Philosophy - 1819 - 580 pages
...they make for pleasure, as with poets ; nor for advantage, as with the merchant ; but for the lye'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 randle-lights. Truth... | |
| British prose literature - 1821 - 416 pages
...One of the later schools 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...that doth not shew the masques, and mummeries, and trinmphs of the world, half so stately and daintily as candlelights. Truth may perhaps come to the... | |
| Francis Bacon (visct. St. Albans.) - 1822 - 234 pages
...examineth the matter, and is at a stand to think what should be in it, that men should love lies, whether neither they make for pleasure, as with poets; nor...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.... | |
| Francis Bacon - English prose literature - 1825 - 524 pages
...One of the later schools 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...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... | |
| Francis Bacon - 1825 - 538 pages
...of the later schools of the Grecians examine th the matter, and is at a stand to think what should be in it, that men should love lies ; where neither...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... | |
| George Walker - English prose literature - 1825 - 668 pages
...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...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... | |
| Francis Bacon, Basil Montagu - 1825 - 550 pages
...the later schools of the Grecians ox ami no tl i the matter, and is at a stand to think what should be in it, that men should love lies ; where neither...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... | |
| New elegant extracts, Richard Alfred Davenport - English literature - 1827 - 408 pages
...One of the later schools 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...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.... | |
| Richard Alfred Davenport - Classical poetry - 1827 - 404 pages
...One of the later schools 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 wilh poets ; nor for advantage, as with the merchant; but for the lie's sake. But I cannot tell : this... | |
| Richard Alfred Davenport - Classical poetry - 1827 - 402 pages
...One of the later schools 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 wilh poets ; nor for advantage, as with the merchant; but for the lie's sake. But I cannot tell : this... | |
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