 | Francis Bacon - 1868 - 458 trang
...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 if there were taken out of Mens Mindes, Vaine Opinions, Flattering Hopes, False valuations, Imaginations as one would, and the... | |
 | Henry Lewis (M.A.) - 1869 - 196 trang
...the 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...; 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 trang
...is no 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,...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... | |
 | Homer Baxter Sprague - 1874 - 456 trang
...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...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... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1874 - 700 trang
...mind and practice.'— Watts, 4 Daintily. Elegantly. price of a diamond or carbuncle, that skoweth best in varied lights. A mixture of a lie doth ever...there were taken out of men's minds vain opinions, nattering hopes, false valuations, imaginations as one would, 1 and the like, but it would leave the... | |
 | English literature - 1874 - 274 trang
...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 trang
...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.'... | |
 | Samuel Taylor Coleridge - 1875 - 474 trang
...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 price of a diamond or carbuncle, which sheweth best in varied lights. A mixture of lies doth ever add pleasure. Doth any man doubt,... | |
 | 1875 - 630 trang
...fishmonger who cursed the eels for not lying still to be skinned. ' A mixture of lies,' says Bacon, ' doth ever add pleasure. Doth any man doubt that if there were taken from men's minds vain opinions, false valuations, imaginations as one would, and the like vinum dcemonum,... | |
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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. 
