 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.  Bacon's essays, with annotations by R. Whately - Page 1by Francis Bacon (visct. St. Albans.) - 1864Full view - About this book
 | Richard Alfred Davenport - Classical poetry - 1827 - 404 pages
...corrupt love of the lie itself. 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...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... | |
 | Richard Alfred Davenport - 1827 - 494 pages
...corrupt love of the lie itself 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...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 - English literature - 1827 - 412 pages
...corrupt love of the lie itself. 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...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... | |
 | Richard Alfred Davenport - Classical poetry - 1827 - 402 pages
...corrupt love of the lie itself. 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...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... | |
 | Walter Savage Landor - Imaginary conversations - 1829 - 570 pages
...when an elderly gentleman of another college came into the room, took up the book, and redd aloud, " This same truth is a naked and open daylight, that doth not shew the masques and mummeries and triumphs of the world half so stately and daintily as candle-lights.... | |
 | 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 doth not shew the masques and mummeries and triumphs of the present world half so stately and daintily, as candle... | |
 | Jonathan Dymond - Ethics - 1834 - 444 pages
...tongue talked of bravery and glory, and no newspaper published the achievements of a regiment ?* " Truth is a naked and open daylight that doth not show the masks and mummeries and triumphs of the world half so stately a»d daintily as candle-lights."t Let... | |
 | Thomas Moore - 1835 - 504 pages
...assigned as a reason for this evident revolution in Parliamentary taste. " Truth," says Lord Bacon, "is a naked and open day-light, that doth not show the masques, and mammeries, and triumphs of the present world half so stately and daintily as candlelights ;" — and... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1838 - 894 pages
...corrupt love of the lie itself. One of the later schools of the Grecians examineth the matter, and is e law of England no man is bound to accuse himself....required ; no, not permitted. In criminal matters 2 A 2 masks, and mummeries, and triumphs of the world, half so stately andldaintily as candle-lights.} Truth... | |
 | Francis Bacon (visct. St. Albans.) - 1840 - 244 pages
...corrupt love of the lie itself. 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...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... | |
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