 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 - Página 1951838Vista completa - Acerca de este libro
 | 1855 - 676 páginas
...many fears and distastes ; and adversity is not without comforts and hopes. — We see in needleworks and embroideries it is more pleasing to have a lively...the eye. Certainly, virtue is like precio'us odors, more fragrant where they are incensed or crushed ; for prosperity doth best discover vice, but adversity... | |
 | Francis Bacon (visct. St. Albans.) - 1840 - 244 páginas
...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 when they are incensed, or crushed : for prosperity doth best discover vice,... | |
 | Henrietta Georgiana Chatterton (M. lady.) - 1840 - 1020 páginas
...many fears and distastes; and adversity is not without comforts and hopes. We see in needleworks aoid embroideries, it is more pleasing to have a lively...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.) - 1842 - 300 páginas
...tUork, " The threaded steel Plies swiftly, and unfelt the task proceeds." COWPER. '' In needleworks and embroideries, it is more pleasing to have a lively...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 - 1843 - 520 páginas
...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 when they are incensed or crushed; for prosperity doth best discover vice, but... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1843 - 410 páginas
...without many fears and distastes; and adversity is not without comforts and hopes. We see in needleworks and embroideries it is more pleasing to have a lively...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... | |
 | 1843 - 596 páginas
...to the mind under the severest trials, both in life and in death. " Certainly," (says Lord Bacon,) " virtue is like precious odors, most fragrant when...they are incensed, or crushed ; for prosperity doth but discover vice, and adversity doth but discover virtue." LAWS AND LAWYERS, JEWISH, ROMAN, ENGLISH... | |
 | 1864 - 704 páginas
...without many fears and distastes and adversity is not without comforts and hopes. We see in needleworks and embroideries, it is more pleasing to have a lively...pleasure of the eye. Certainly virtue is like precious odours, most fragrant when they are incensed, or crushed : for prosperity doth best discover vice,... | |
 | 636 páginas
...without 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,... | |
 | 1835 - 638 páginas
...hour, I firmly believe that no one but a carpenter could ever have got me out." WE see in needleworks and embroideries, it is more pleasing to have a lively...pleasure of the eye. Certainly virtue is like precious odours, most fragrant when they are crushed ; for prosperity doth best discover vice, but adversity... | |
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