 | English essays - 1852 - 780 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...of the pleasure of the heart by the pleasure of the f ye. Certainly virtue is like precious odours, most fragrant when they are incensed or crashed ; for... | |
 | Francis Bacon - English essays - 1852 - 394 pages
...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,... | |
 | Francis Bacon (visct. St. Albans.) - 1853 - 176 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...Certainly virtue is like precious odours, most fragrant where they are incensed, or crushed ; for prosperity doth best discover vice, but adversity doth best... | |
 | 1853 - 792 pages
...English philosophy, who says, " as 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, so we may judge the pleasure of the heart by the pleasure of the eye." So, for the mere picturesque,... | |
 | Robert Chambers - Authors, English - 1853 - 716 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 dark and melancholy rk upon a lightsome ground ; judge therefore of the pleasure of the heurt by the pleasure of the eye.... | |
 | Francis Bacon - Ethics - 1854 - 894 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. VI. OF... | |
 | Kenelm Henry Digby - 1854 - 626 pages
...a great author says, " 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 dark and melancholy work upon a lightsome ground ;" or, as Hazlitt says in his charming essay upon Merry England, " I do not see how there can be high... | |
 | Edward H. Dixon - Medicine - 1855 - 468 pages
...without comforts and hopes. We see in needle-work and embroidery, it is more pleasing to have a lively work upon a sad and solemn ground, than to have a dark and melancholy work on a lightsome ground. " Certainly, virtue is like precious odors, the more precious when incensed... | |
 | Wesleyan pulpit - 1855 - 652 pages
...lusts," by which they are drowned " in destruction and perdition." It was the saying of Lord Bacon, " 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." Many... | |
 | John Timbs - Aphorisms and apothegms - 1856 - 378 pages
...fallacious. — Johnson. I.XIX. 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... | |
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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.... 
