 | Roy Bennett Pace - English literature - 1917 - 536 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 dark and melancholy 35 work upon a lightsome ground ; judge therefore of the pleasure of the heart by the pleasure of the... | |
 | Roy Bennett Pace - English literature - 1918 - 986 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 dark and melancholy 35 work upon a lightsome ground ; judge therefore of the pleasure of the heart by the pleasure of the... | |
 | Roy Bennett Pace - English literature - 1918 - 428 pages
...over joy in the Old Testament, and one which by an unusual figure of speech suggests that we " judge of the pleasure of the heart by the pleasure of the eye." The essay Of Studies is really a collection of texts, upon any one of which an extended discourse might... | |
 | North American review - 1922 - 876 pages
...Estate. Or again this : We see in Needleworks and Embroideries, it is more pleasant 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. I assert of these passages that they cannot be printed in short sections as free verse without damage... | |
 | Classical philology - 1923 - 346 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 dark and melancholy work npon a lightsome ground. Judge therefore of the pleasure of the heart by the pleasure of the eye. Certainly... | |
 | Warner Taylor - American essays - 1923 - 524 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. OF TRUTH... | |
 | Carlo Formichi - 1924 - 404 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...pleasure of the heart by the pleasure of the eye. Cer(1) Ed una sentenza di lui anche piu alta di questa, troppo alta parecchio per un pagano, fe : .... | |
 | George William McClelland - English Literature (selections: Extracts, Etc.) - 1925 - 1180 pages
...without comforts and hopes) We see in needle-works and embroideries, it is more pleasing to have a lively erial sov'reignty, adorn'd With splendour, arm'd with...deter Me from attempting. Wherefore do I assume 45° T odors, most fragrant when they are incensed or -crushed: If or prosperity doth best discover vice,... | |
 | Ralph Philip Boas, Edwin Smith - English literature - 1925 - 490 pages
...Prosperity is not without many fears and distastes; and adversity is not without comforts and hopes. . . . 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." And Jeremy... | |
 | Jacob Zeitlin - Civilization, Modern - 1926 - 408 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...and melancholy work upon a lightsome ground. Judge, 1 Epistles, 56. 2 ibid., 53. therefore, of the pleasure of the heart by the pleasure of the eye. Certainly,... | |
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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.... 
