...cunning judges of pictorial effect as the father of English philosophy, who says, " as in needleworks and embroideries it is more pleasing to have a lively...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,...

...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...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....

...without many fears and distastes ; and adversity is not without comforts and hopes. We see in needleworks day by the hand. Also some steps up to it, and some...may call a bathing pool, it may admit much curiosity odours, most fragrant when they are incensed or crushed ; for prosperity doth best discover vice, but...

...inspire for that reason the greater pleasure ; for, as a great author says, " We see in needleworks and embroideries it is more pleasing to have a lively...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...

...and distrusts, and adversity is not without comforts and hopes. We see in needle-work and embroidery, it is more pleasing to have a lively work upon a sad...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...

...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...precious odors, most fragrant when they are incensed, 01 crushed ; for prosperity doth best discover vice ; but adversity doth best discover virtue." The...

...examining, and is tempted to consider all as equally fallacious. — Johnson. I.XIX. 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 where they are incensed or crushed : for prosperity doth best discover vice,...

...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...upon a lightsome ground: judge, therefore, of the pleasures of the heart by the pleasures of the eye. Certainly virtue is like precious odours, most...

...not without comforts and hopes. We see in needle-works and emhroideries, it is more pleasing to have lively work upon a sad and solemn ground, than to...ground ; judge, therefore, of the pleasure of the heart hy the pleasure of the eye. Certainly, virtue is like precious odours, most fragrant where they are...

...comforts anil hopes. We see in needleworks and emtr iilenes it is more pleaMng to have a lively work apon a sad and solemn ground, than to have a dark and melancholy work upon a lightsome »round. Judge therefore of the pleasure of the heart by the pleasure of the fye. Certainly virtue...