 | Francis Bacon - Conduct of life - 1879 - 356 pages
...pearl, that showeth15 best by day, but it will not rise16 to 'the price of a diamond or carbuncle,17 that showeth best in varied lights. A mixture of a...flattering hopes, false valuations, imaginations as one would,13 and the like, but it would leave the minds of a number of men poor shrunken things, full of... | |
 | May Laffan - Irish fiction - 1881 - 508 pages
...been last night. CHAPTER XXXIII. " Truth may perhaps come to the price of a peril that showeth best hy day, but it will not rise to the price of a diamond...and indisposition, and unpleasing to themselves." — Bacon. "Ix's the m'ost unaccountable proceeding I ever remember to have heard of. Disappear in... | |
 | Osgood Eaton Fuller - Conduct of life - 1881 - 658 pages
...Ruin is not, perforce, of wrath (he token, Nor doth stern vengeance on the torrent ride " (p. 400) but it will not rise to the price of a diamond or...melancholy and indisposition, and unpleasing to themselves ? — LORD BACON. Do not be over - fond of anything, or consider that for your interest which makes... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1881 - 292 pages
...that sheweth best in varied lights. A mixture of a lie doth ever add pleasure. Doth any man doubt, *5 that if there were taken out of men's minds vain opinions,...indisposition, and unpleasing to themselves ? One 30 of the fathers, in great severity, called poesy mnum dcemonum, because it filleth the imagination,... | |
 | Henry Norman Hudson - 1881 - 104 pages
...onco to the business in hand. 2 Discoursing in the sense of discursive ; that Is, roving or unsettled. in varied lights. A mixture of a lie doth ever add...valuations, imaginations as one would, and the like, it would leave the minds of a number of men poor shrunken things, full of melancholy and indisposition,... | |
 | Kathleen Knox - English language - 1882 - 156 pages
...of a pearl that sheweth best by day ; but it will not rise to the price of a carbuncle, that sheweth best in varied lights. A mixture of a lie doth ever...One of the Fathers in great severity called poesy .... devil's wine, because it filleth the imagination ; and yet it is but with the shadow of a lie.... | |
 | Francis Bacon (visct. St. Albans.) - 1882 - 214 pages
...thut pheweth b<-st by day; but it will uot rise to the price of a diamond or carbuncle, that sheweth best in varied lights. A mixture of a lie doth ever...things, full of melancholy and indisposition, and unjileasiug to-themselves ? One of the fathers, in great severity, called poesy ' vinum ' dasmonum,'... | |
 | Walter Savage Landor - 1883 - 458 pages
...an elderly gentlemaij of another college came into the room, took up the book, and read aloud, — " This same truth is a naked and open daylight, that...melancholy and indisposition, and unpleasing to themselves 1 " " One might well imagine," said he, "unpleasing to themselves, //"full of melancholy and indisposition.... | |
 | Cassell, ltd - 1883 - 488 pages
...that doth not show the masks, and mummeries, and triumphs of the world half so stately and daintilv as candlelights. Truth may perhaps come to the price...melancholy and indisposition, and unpleasing to themselves 'i One of the fathers in great severity called poesy, Yinum lltemonmn,1 because it filleth the imagination,... | |
 | David Thomas - 1883 - 470 pages
...bastard knowledge that does " puff up." Witness the great philosopher who knew the difference well. " Doth any man doubt that if there were taken out of...and indisposition, and unpleasing to themselves." But the light of the body is the eye, and the light of the soul is the intellect, and if the eye be... | |
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Doth any man doubt that if there were taken out of men's minds vain opinions, flattering hopes, false valuations, imaginations as one would, and the like, but it would leave the minds of a number of men poor shrunken things, full of melancholy and indisposition,... 
