 | Basil Montagu - Conduct of life - 1839 - 404 pages
...without comfort and hopes. 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...precious odours, most fragrant when they are incensed, or crushed ; for prosperity doth best discover vice, but adversity doth best discover virtue. perity... | |
 | 1839 - 444 pages
...the human character. Prosperity may be joyful to the sense, but adversity is healthful to the soul. " Certainly virtue is like precious odours, most fragrant when they are incensed or crushed." Under the combined influence of improved taste, much sorrow, and a firmly infixed religious... | |
 | Francis Bacon (visct. St. Albans.) - 1840 - 244 pages
...without comforts and hopes. 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...precious odours, most fragrant when they are incensed, or crushed : for prosperity doth best discover vice, but adversity doth best discover virtue. anthor's... | |
 | 1855 - 676 pages
...comforts and hopes. — We see in needleworks and embroideries it is more pleasing to have a lively work upon a sad and solemn ground, than to have a...pleasure of the eye. Certainly, virtue is like precio'us odors, more fragrant where they are incensed or crushed ; for prosperity doth best discover vice, but... | |
 | Henrietta Georgiana Chatterton (M. lady.) - 1840 - 1020 pages
...without comforts and hopes. We see in needleworks aoid embroideries, it is more pleasing to have a lively work upon a sad and solemn ground, than to have a...pleasure of the heart by the pleasure of the eye. BACON . EVERYTHING seemed now really prosperous. Laura found her mother much disappointed, it was true,... | |
 | Miss Lambert (F.) - Needlework - 1842 - 300 pages
...the task proceeds." COWPER. '' In 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 ground." BACON. HE reason for comprising the various subjects included in this chapter under one head, is, that... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - English literature - 1843 - 520 pages
...without comforts and hopes. 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...precious odours, most fragrant when they are incensed or crushed; for prosperity doth best discover vice, but adversity doth best discover virtue." It is... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - Great Britain - 1843 - 410 pages
...without comforts and hopes. We see in needleworks and embroideries it is more pleasing to have a lively work upon a sad and solemn ground, than to have a...precious odours, most fragrant when they are incensed or crushed; for prosperity doth best discover vice, but adversity doth best discover virtue." It is... | |
 | Sara Wood - English fiction - 1843 - 312 pages
...sorrows and sufferings, than be kept in ignorance of any thing that concerned her. CHAPTER XVII. " 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." Lord... | |
 | 1864 - 704 pages
...without comforts and hopes. We see in needleworks and embroideries, it is more pleasing to have a lively work upon a sad and solemn ground, than to have a...precious odours, most fragrant when they are incensed, or crushed : for prosperity doth best discover vice, but adversity doth best disoover virtue. — Sacón.... | |
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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.... 
