 | Samuel Griswold Goodrich - 1844 - 336 pages
...needleworks and embroideries, it is more pleasing to have a lively work upon a sad and solemn ground, than to have a dark and melancholy work upon a lightsome...pleasure of the eye. Certainly, virtue is like precious odors, most fragrant when they are incensed or crushed ; for prosperity doth best discover vice, but... | |
 | Samuel Griswold Goodrich - 1844 - 680 pages
...needleworks and embroideries, it is more pleasing to have a lively work upon a sad and solemn ground, than to have a dark and melancholy work upon a lightsome...pleasure of the eye. Certainly, virtue is like precious odors, most fragrant when they are incensed or crushed ; for prosperity doth best discover vice, but... | |
 | 1905 - 1004 pages
...in true poetic language. Take this from the essay Of Adversity: — Virtue is like precious odors. Most fragrant when they are incensed or crushed; For...discover vice. But adversity doth best discover virtue. Not a word here has been altered from the prose form in which it appears in the original. Then in the... | |
 | Basil Montagu, Hannah Mary Rathbone - 1845 - 396 pages
...works and embroideries, it is more pleasing to have a lively work upon a sad and solemn ground, than to have a dark and melancholy work upon a lightsome...the pleasure of the eye. Certainly virtue is like pleasant odors, most fragrant when they are incensed, or crushed ; for prosperity doth best discover... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1846 - 782 pages
...needleworks and embroideries it is more pleasing to have a lively work upon a sad and .solemn ground, than . Dante never stays too long. No difference of political...excite the honor of Bossuet. Nothing, then, can be It is by the " Essays" that Bacon is best known to the multitude. The Nomim Organunt and the De JSu%mentit... | |
 | 1846 - 308 pages
...needle-workers and imbroiderers, it is more pleasing to have a lively woik upon a sad and solemn ground, than to have a dark and melancholy work upon a lightsome...the pleasure of the eye. Certainly virtue is like pre cious odors, most fragrant when they are incensed or crushed; for Prosperity doth best discover... | |
 | Robert Chambers - 1847 - 712 pages
...needle-works and embroideries, it is more pleasing to have a lively work upon a sad and solemn ground, than ܀ 0 where they arc incensed or crushed : for prosperity doth best discover vice, but adversity doth best... | |
 | Robert Chambers - 1847 - 712 pages
...needle-works and embroideries, it is more pleasing to have a lively work upon a sad and solemn ground, than divine nature, except it proceed, not out of a pleasure in solitude, but out of a love and desire moet fragrant where they arc incensed or crushed : for prosperity doth best discover vice, but adversity... | |
 | Francis Bacon, Basil Montagu - 1848 - 594 pages
...needle-works and embroideries, it is more pleasing to have a lively work upon a sad and solemn ground, than to have a dark and melancholy work upon a lightsome...pleasure of the eye. Certainly virtue is like precious odoure, most fragrant when they are incensed, or crushed : for prosperity doth best discover vice,... | |
 | Congregational union of England and Wales - 1848 - 684 pages
...pleasing to have a lively work upon a sad and solemn ground, than to have a dark and melancholy work npon a lightsome ground. Judge, therefore, of the pleasure...like precious odours, most fragrant when they are crushed ; for prosperity doth best discover vice, bnt adversity doth best discover virtue. — Lord... | |
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Certainly virtue is like precious odours, most fragrant when they are incensed or crushed ; for Prosperity doth best discover vice, but Adversity doth best discover virtue. 
