 | Richard Alfred Davenport - 1827 - 494 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... | |
 | New elegant extracts, Richard Alfred Davenport - 1827 - 412 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... | |
 | Thomas Curtis - 1829 - 820 pages
...chance to be pinched with the cholick, you make faces like mummers. Id. Coriolaruu. This open day-light doth not shew the masques and mummeries, and triumphs of the world, half so «lately as candle-light. Bacm'i Natural History. une mirth'n but nummary, And sorrows only real be.... | |
 | Thomas Curtis - 1829 - 820 pages
...for sweetness, or pleasure of t»ste, and therefore »11 your dainty plumbs arc a little dry. Bacon. ed, because it was not obtained, or pretended to be obtaine masks and mummeries and triumphs of the world, half so stately and daintily as candlelight. Id. My... | |
 | Robert Leighton, George Barrell Cheever - 1832 - 584 pages
...of the latter 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 candle-light.... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1833 - 228 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 • 8 OP TRCTK. world, half so stately and daintily... | |
 | Johann Wolfgang von Goethe - 1833 - 396 pages
...spectator. De Arte Poetica. p. 272. Much falsehood and a spark of truthJ] — " I cannot tell why, this same truth is a naked and open daylight, that...shew the masques and mummeries and triumphs of the present world half so stately and daintily, as candle lights. Truth may perhaps come to the price of... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1838 - 898 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 day-light, that doth not show the masks, and mummeries, and triumphs of the world, half so stately and daintily as candle-lights.... | |
 | Francis Bacon (visct. St. Albans.) - 1840 - 244 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...truth is a 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.... | |
 | Samuel Taylor Coleridge - 1840 - 582 pages
...— " One of the later schools of the Grecians (says Lord Bacon) is at a stand to think what should that, by nature's I cannot tell why, this same truth is a naked and open day-light, that doth nut show the masques and... | |
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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 they make for pleasure, as with poets; nor for advantage, as with the merchant; but for the lie's sake. 
