 | Alfred Guy L'Estrange - English wit and humor - 1878 - 370 pages
...stately and daintily as candle light. Truth may perhaps come to the price of a pearl that showeth well by day, but it will not rise to the price of a diamond or carbuncle that shineth best in varied lights. A mixture of a lie doth ever add pleasure. Doth any man doubt that if... | |
 | Alfred Guy L'Estrange - English wit and humor - 1878 - 414 pages
...stately and daintily as candle light. Truth may perhaps come to the price of a pearl that showeth well by day, but it will not rise to the price of a diamond or carbuncle that shineth best in varied lights. A mixture of a lie doth ever add pleasure. Doth any man doubt that if... | |
 | Literature - 1909 - 378 pages
...naked and open day-light, that doth not show 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 showeth best by day; but it will not rise to the price of a diamond or carbuncle, that showeth best... | |
 | Lisa Jardine - Science - 1974 - 300 pages
...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...lights. A mixture of a lie doth ever add pleasure. [VI, 377] The next transition, from the occasional untruth to 'living a lie', is once again made by... | |
 | Robert L. Montgomery - Literary Criticism - 2010 - 229 pages
...stately and daintily as candlelights. Truth may perhaps rome 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. A mixture of a lie doth ever add pleasure. Doth any man doubl. that... | |
 | Anne Drury Hall - Literary Criticism - 2010 - 217 pages
...the civil irony of Bacon in the Essays: 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. A mixture of a lie doth ever add pleasure. Doth any man doubt, that... | |
 | Jonathan Adams, James Luther Adams - Religion - 1991 - 404 pages
...about with a small watch candle into every corner?" He would have liked also another word from Bacon, "Truth may perhaps come to the price of a pearl, that...or carbuncle that sheweth best in varied lights." During the next two decades Tillich by means of his vision of the one great light attempted to interpret... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - Literary Collections - 1995 - 304 pages
...stately and daintily 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 price of a diamond or carbuncle that showeth best in varied lights. A mixture of a lie doth ever add pleasure. Doth any man doubt that if... | |
 | David Loewenstein, Janel M. Mueller - Language Arts & Disciplines - 2002 - 1064 pages
...naked and open day-light, that doth not shew the masks and mummeries and triumphs of the world, half so stately and daintily as candlelights. Truth may perhaps...diamond or carbuncle, that sheweth best in varied lights.54 In the course of reading the poem, the reader learns to interpret - to discriminate, to evaluate,... | |
 | Francis Bacon - Biography & Autobiography - 2000 - 470 pages
...world, halfe so 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...best in varied lights. A mixture of a Lie doth ever adde Pleasure. Doth any man 25 doubt, that if there were taken out of Mens Mindes, Vaine Opinions,... | |
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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 showeth best in varied lights. A mixture of a lie doth ever add pleasure. 
