 | Francis Bacon - 1982 - 78 pages
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 | Leland Roth - 1983 - 700 pages
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 | W. W. Robson, William Wallace Robson - 1984 - 288 pages
...an ugly style if we could agree that we were being brought nearer to the truth by it. As Bacon says, 'Truth is a naked and open daylight that doth not shew the masks and mummeries and triumphs of the world half as stately and daintily as candlelight.' But is... | |
 | Robert E. Scholes - 1985 - 190 pages
...for pleasure's sake, Bacon goes on to tell us that "This same Truth, is a Naked, and Open day light, that doth not shew, the Masques and Mummeries, and Triumphs of the world, halfe so stately, and daintily, as Candle-lights." In short, Bacon himself can answer Pilate's question... | |
 | Marshall Blonsky - 1985 - 600 pages
...for pleasure's sake, Bacon goes on to tell us that "This same Truth, is a Naked, and Open day light, that doth not shew, the Masques and Mummeries, and Triumphs of the world, halfe so stately, and daintily, as Candle-lights." In short, he offers us metaphors, or poetry, for... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1986 - 328 pages
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 | Robert L. Montgomery - 2010 - 229 pages
...lies, where neither they make for plrasure. as with poets, nor for advantage. as with the merchanl. but for the lie's sake. But I cannot tell: this same truth is a naked and open daylighl. that doth not show the masks and mummeries and triumphs of the wortd. half so stately 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. 
