 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 candlelights. Truth may, perhaps, come to the price of a pearl that showeth best by day, but...  Macmillan's Magazine - 第 54 頁1882完整檢視 - 關於此書
 | Francis Bacon - 1868 - 786 頁
...masques, and mummeries, and triumphs of the world, half so stately and daintily4 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 1 Affect. To aim at ; endeawmr after. ' This proud man affectt imperial sway.' — Dryden. ' Discoursing.... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1868 - 472 頁
...Stately, and daintily, as Candlelights. Truth may perhaps come to the price of a Pearle, that sheweth best by day : But it will not rise, to the price of a Diamond, or Carbuncle, that sheweth best in varied lights. A mixture of a Lie doth ever adde Pleasure. Doth any man doubt, that... | |
 | Henry Lewis (M.A.) - 1869 - 196 頁
...sentences or phrases in a period, when they are already separated from each other by commas. " Truth may perhaps come to the price of a pearl, that showeth...; but it will not rise to the price of a diamond, that showeth best in varied lights." " I testified the pleasure I should have in his company ; .and... | |
 | 1871
...stately and daintily as candle-light. Truth may, perhaps, come to the price of a pearl that sheweth best by day, but it will not rise to the price of a diamond or a carbuncle that sheweth best in varied lights. A mixture of a lie doth ever add pleasure. Doth any... | |
 | 1881 - 314 頁
...sincerer lover of such truth than Bacon. But he will not overlook the claims of falsehood. " Truth may, perhaps, come to the price of a pearl, that showeth...lights. A mixture of a lie doth ever add pleasure." That famous sentence is just one of the sayings which the decorous moralist is apt to denounce or to... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1873 - 266 頁
...masques, and mummeries, and triumphs' of the world half so stately and daintily2 as candle-lights. Truth may perhaps come to the price of a pearl, that showeth...lights. A mixture of a lie doth ever add pleasure. Doth any man doubt, that if there were taken out of men's minds vain opinions, flattering hopes, false... | |
 | Homer Baxter Sprague - 1874 - 474 頁
...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...lights. A mixture of a lie doth ever add pleasure. Doth any man doubt, that if there were taken out of men's minds vain opinions, flattering hopes, false... | |
 | Homer Baxter Sprague - 1874 - 456 頁
...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 in varied lights. A mixture of a lie doth ever acid pleasure. Doth any man doubt, that if there were taken out of men's minds vain opinions, flattering... | |
 | English literature - 1874 - 274 頁
...triumphs of the world, half so stately and daintily as candle light. Truth may perhaps come to tho price of a pearl that showeth best by day, but it will not rise to the prico of a diamond or carbuncle, that showeth best in varied lights. A mixture of a lie doth ever add... | |
 | Francis Bacon (visct. St. Albans.) - 1874 - 100 頁
...stately1 4 and daintily as candle-lights.1 5 Truth may perhaps come to the price of a pearl, that sheweth best by day; but it will not rise to the price of a diamond 16 or carbuncle,' 7 that sheweth best in varied lights. A mixture of a lie doth ever add pleasure.'... | |
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