 We see in 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 ground : judge therefore of the pleasure of the heart by the pleasure of the eye....  Southern Literary Messenger - Page 1951838Full view - About this book
 | Francis Bacon (visct. St. Albans.) - 1851 - 228 pages
...many fears and distastes ; and adversity is not without comforts and hopes. We see in needle-works and embroideries, it is more pleasing to have a lively...pleasure of the eye. Certainly virtue is like precious odours, most fragrant where they are incensed, or crushed; for prosperity doth best discover vice,... | |
 | Edward Hughes - 1851 - 362 pages
...not/without comforts and hopes. We see in needle-works and embroideries, it is more pleasing to have lively work upon a sad and solemn ground, than to...pleasure \of the eye. Certainly, virtue is like precious odours, most fragrant where they are incensed, or crushed ; for prosperity doth best discover vice,... | |
 | 1851 - 626 pages
...adverrity it not without comforts and hopes. We see in needle-works and embroideries, it is more pleasant to have a lively work upon a sad and solemn ground...pleasure of the heart by the pleasure of the eye." What are these images of, viz., the " lively work ;" the " sad and solemn ground;" the "dark and melancholy... | |
 | Abraham Mills - 1851 - 594 pages
...many fears and distastes ; and adversity is not without comforts and hopes. We see in needle-works and embroideries, it is more pleasing to have a lively...ground, than to have a dark and melancholy work upon * lightsome ground ; judge, therefore, of the pleasure of the heart by the pleasure of the eye. Certainly... | |
 | 1851 - 608 pages
...similar circumstances, but few votaries. As Lord Bacon says of virtue, we may say of religion — it is like precious odors, most fragrant when they are incensed or crushed. Of his early years we know little. They were overshadowed, we know, by one cloud — the Great Plague.... | |
 | 1852 - 780 pages
...without many fears and dislaMcs ; arid adversity is not without comforts and hopes. We see in needleworks and in the arts, which, in the following generation,...it should seem that they still looked up, with the f ye. Certainly virtue is like precious odours, most fragrant when they are incensed or crashed ; for... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1852 - 764 pages
...adversity is not without comforts and hopes. We see in needleworks and embroideries it is more pleasing lo have a lively work upon a sad and solemn ground, than...pleasure of the eye. Certainly virtue is like precious odours, most fragrant when they are incensed or crushed ; for prosperity doth best discover vice, but... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1852 - 394 pages
...Adverfity is not without Comforts and Hopes. We fee in Needleworks and Embroideries, it is more pleafing to have a lively Work, upon a Sad and Solemn Ground, than to have a dark and melancholy Work, upon alightfome Ground : Judge, therefore, of the Pleafure of the Heart, by the Pleafure of the Eye. Certainly,... | |
 | 1852 - 978 pages
...the following sentences, viz.: — * Longfellow's "Hyperion." " Virtue is like precious odours, mottt fragrant when they are incensed or crushed ; for prosperity doth best discover vice, hut adversity doth best discover virtue." — Bacons JSssay," Of Adversity'-' " The joys of parents... | |
 | Francis Bacon (visct. St. Albans.) - 1853 - 176 pages
...many fears and distastes ; and adversity is not without comforts and hopes. We see in needle-works and embroideries, it is more pleasing to have a lively...pleasure of the eye. Certainly virtue is like precious odours, most fragrant where they are incensed, or crushed ; for prosperity doth best discover vice,... | |
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