 | New elegant extracts, Richard Alfred Davenport - English literature - 1827 - 412 pages
...a natural though 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...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 - 404 pages
...a natural though 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...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... | |
 | Dugald Stewart - 1829 - 510 pages
...their deeds are evil ; " well knowing (if I may borrow the words of Bacon,) " that the open daylight doth not shew the masks and mummeries, and triumphs of the world, half so stately as candlelight." The philosopher, on the other hand, who is duly impressed with the latter, may be... | |
 | Dugald Stewart - 1829 - 518 pages
...their deeds are evil ; " well knowing (if I may borrow the words of Bacon,) " that the open daylight doth not shew the masks and mummeries, and triumphs of the world, half so stately as candlelight." The philosopher, on the other hand, who is duly impressed with the latter, may be... | |
 | Dugald Stewart - 1829 - 518 pages
...their deeds are evil; " well knowing (if I may borrow the words of Bacon,) " that the open daylight doth not shew the masks and mummeries, and triumphs of the world, half so stately as candlelight." The philosopher, on the other hand, who is duly impressed with the latter, may be... | |
 | 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. Truth... | |
 | Robert Leighton, George Barrell Cheever - Episcopal Church in Scotland - 1832 - 584 pages
...natural, though corrupt love of the lie itself. One of the latter schools of the Grecians examineth the matter, and is at a stand to think what should...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 - English essays - 1833 - 228 pages
...natural, though 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...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 doth not shew the masques and mummeries and triumphs of the present world half so stately and daintily, as candle lights.... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1838 - 894 pages
...a natural though 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...truth is a naked and open day-light, that doth not show the masks, and mummeries, and triumphs of the world, half so stately andldaintily as candle-lights.}... | |
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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... 
