 | William Minto - English prose literature - 1881 - 596 pages
...His well-known figure concerning Truth has a more poetical tone than his figures usually have : — " 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 candle-lights." This... | |
 | English essays - 1881 - 578 pages
...John xviU. 38. be in it, that men should love lies ; where neither they make for pleasure, as with W/ 1 cannot tell : this same truth is a naked and open day-light, that doth not show the masks, and mummeries,... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1882 - 570 pages
...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...a naked and open daylight, that doth not show the masks, and mummeries, and triumphs of the world, half so stately and daintily as candle-lights. Truth... | |
 | Franklyn Bliss Snyder, Robert Grant Martin - English literature - 1916 - 964 pages
...what should be in it, that men should love lies, where [20 neither they make for pleasure, as with poets, nor for advantage, as with the merchant, but...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. Truth... | |
 | John Matthews Manly - English literature - 1916 - 828 pages
...think what should be in it, that men should love lies, where neither they make for pleasure, as with wned -with flowers, Where Thames with pride surveys...frame, Wliich from the neighbouring Hampton * takes masks and mummeries and triumphs of the world, half so stately and daintily as candlelights. Truth... | |
 | John Matthews Manly - English literature - 1916 - 806 pages
...think what should be in it, that men should love lies, where neither they make for pleasure, as with sea came he, Still hid in masks and mummeries and triumphs of the world, half so stately and daintily as candlelights. Truth... | |
 | William Frank Bryan, Ronald Salmon Crane - English essays - 1916 - 540 pages
...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...truth is a naked and open day-light, that doth not shew the masques and mummeries and triumphs of the world half so stately and daintily as candle-lights.... | |
 | Sarah Norcliffe Cleghorn, Dorothy Canfield Fisher - American literature - 1916 - 168 pages
...replies, There is but one good rest, Whose head is pillowed upon Truth's bare breast. — James Thomson. Truth is a naked and open daylight, that doth not show the masks and mummeries and triumphs of the world hah" so daintily and half so stately as candle-light.... | |
 | John Michels (Journalist) - Science - 1918 - 672 pages
...are aware that no researcher whose results are offensive to the patrons can retain their support, for 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.* We have... | |
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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. 
