 | George Lillie Craik - 1846 - 732 pages
...the waves of the world We see in needle-works and emhroideries it is more pleasing to have a lively work upon a sad and solemn ground, than to have a...ground. Judge therefore of the pleasure of the heart hy the pleasure of the eye. Certainly virtue is like precious odours, most fragrant when they are incensed... | |
 | Robert Chambers - English literature - 1847 - 712 pages
...without comforts and bopes. We see in needle-works and embroideries, it is more pleasing to have a lively with the other where they arc incensed or crushed : for prosperity doth best discover vice, but adversity doth best... | |
 | Robert Chambers - Authors, English - 1847 - 712 pages
...without comforts and hopee. We see in needle-works and embroideries, it is more pleasing to have a lively should have any character at all of the divine nature,...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
...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...pleasure of the eye. Certainly virtue is like precious odoure, most fragrant when they are incensed, or crushed : for prosperity doth best discover vice,... | |
 | Bengal council of educ - 1848 - 394 pages
...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 than to have a dark...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... | |
 | Congregational union of England and Wales - 1848 - 684 pages
...without comforts and hopes. We see in needleworks and embroideries, it ie more 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 of the heart by the pleasure of .the eye.... | |
 | Robert Chambers - English literature - 1849 - 708 pages
...comfort« and hopes. Л\*е see in needle-works and embroideries, it is more pleasing to have a lively sing) The frolic wind that breathes the spring, Zephyr...blown-roses wash M in dew, Fill'd her with tliee where they are incensed or crushed : for prosperity doth best discover vice, but adversity doth best... | |
 | John Locke - Intellect - 1849 - 372 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...Certainly virtue is like precious odours, most fragrant where they are incensed or crushed : for prosperity doth best discover vice, but adversity doth best... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - English literature - 1850 - 338 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... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1850 - 892 pages
...without comforts and hopes. We see in needleworks and embroideries, it is more pleasing to bar; a lively work upon a sad and solemn ground, than to have a...the eye. Certainly virtue is like precious odours, piost fragrant when they are incensed or crushed 0)for prosperity doth bes.t discover vice, but adversity... | |
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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.... 
