 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
 | Howard B. White - 1968 - 266 頁
...masques, and mummeries and triumphs of the world half so stately and daintily as candelights. Truth may perhaps come to the price of a pearl that showeth...or carbuncle, that showeth best in varied lights." 57 Light is also distinguished from love. The angels of light are said to be the highest in the celestial... | |
 | Samuel Taylor Coleridge - 2001
...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...the price of a diamond or carbuncle, that showeth bfst in varied lights. A mixture of a lie doth ever add pleasure. Doth any man doubt that if there... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 2002 - 813 頁
...stately and daintily0 as candle-lights. Truth may perhaps come to the price of a pearl, that sheweth0 best by day; but it will not rise to the price of a diamond or carbuncle,0 that sheweth best in varied lights. A mixture of a lie doth ever add pleasure. Doth any... | |
 | Adam Nicolson - 2003 - 280 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. That shifting, layered sensibility... | |
 | Sukanta Chaudhuri - 1981 - 231 頁
...more expansive humanity holds precious. 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 carbuncle that sheweth best in varied lights. A mixture of a lie doth ever add pleasure. Doth any man doubt, that... | |
 | Jeffrey Miller - 2007 - 275 頁
...clutches again. As Oscar Wilde said of the wallpaper on his deathbed, "One of us has got to go." Truth may perhaps come to the price of a pearl, that showeth...will not rise to the price of a diamond or carbuncle [ruby] that showeth best in varied lights. Francis Bacon, Essays, "Of Truth" In 1987, this court considered... | |
 | Sylvia Adamson, Gavin Alexander, Katrin Ettenhuber - 2007 - 306 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. 55 Bacon here combines small-scale... | |
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