 | United States. Congress House - 1938 - 86 pages
...And Lord Bacon, in his essay Of Adversity, tells us: Certainly virtue is like precious odors, more fragrant when they are incensed or crushed. For prosperity...vice, but adversity doth best discover virtue. The adversity of the period discovered outstanding virtue in ANDREW JACKSON MONTAGUE. He did not fold his... | |
 | Great Britain. Scottish Education Dept - 1896 - 642 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...they are incensed or crushed ; for prosperity doth beat discover vice, but adversity doth best discover virtue." BACON. (4) So have I seen a lark rising... | |
 | 1909 - 378 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 odors, most fragrant when they are incensed or crushed: for prosperity doth best discover* vice, but... | |
 | Alfred Pownall - 1864 - 112 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...best discover vice, but adversity doth best discover virtue.—Bacon's Essays. Amid the thorns and"briars of this working-day world "' there is nothing... | |
 | Robert Bridges - 870 pages
...upon a sad and solemn ground, than to have a dark and melancholy work upon a lightsome ground. Judg therefore of the pleasure of the Heart, by the pleasure of the Eye.' I assert of these passages that they cannot be printed in short sections as free verse without damag... | |
 | Lisa Jardine - 1974 - 300 pages
...regarded as a welcome test of fortitude and divine mercy: Certainly virtue is like precious odours, more fragrant when they are incensed or crushed: for Prosperity...discover vice, but Adversity doth best discover virtue. [VI, 386] Bacon, like many of his contemporaries, collected in a notebook apophthegms which struck... | |
 | Philip Edwards - 1997 - 244 pages
...pleasing, to have a Lively Worke, upon a Sad and Solemne Ground; then to have a Darke and Melancholy Worke, upon a Lightsome Ground: Judge therefore, of the Pleasure...the Heart, by the Pleasure of the Eye. Certainly, Vertue is like pretious Odours, most fragrant, when they are incensed, or crushed: For Prosperity doth... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1999 - 276 pages
...eye. Certainly virtue is like precious odours, most fragrant when they are incensed9 or crushed:10 for Prosperity doth best discover* vice, but Adversity doth best discover virtue. 6. OF SIMULATION AND DISSIMULATION Dissimulation* is but a faint kind of policy" or wisdom; for it... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 2000 - 470 pages
...Solemne Ground; then to have a Darke and Melancholy Worke, upon a Lightsome Ground: Judge therfore, of the Pleasure of the Heart, by the Pleasure of the Eye. Certainly, Vertue is like pretious Odours, most fragrant, when they are incensed, or crushed: For Prosperity 40... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 2002 - 868 pages
...lively work0 upon a sad0 and solemn ground,0 than to have a dark and melancholy work upon a lightsome0 ground: judge therefore of the pleasure of the heart...like precious odours, most fragrant when they are incensed0 or crushed:0 for Prosperity doth best discover0 vice, but Adversity doth best discover virtue.... | |
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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. 
