 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 - Stran 1951838Celotni ogled - O knjigi
 | 1856 - 702 strani
...than the felicities of Solomon. Prosperity is not without comforts and hopes. We see in needleworks and embroideries, it is more pleasing to have a lively work upon a dark and solemn ground, than to have a dark and melancholy work upon a lightsome ground ; judge therefore... | |
 | Francis Bacon (visct. St. Albans.) - 1856 - 562 strani
...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 work upon a sad5 and solemn ground, than to have a dark and melancholy work upon a lightsome ground : judge, therefore,... | |
 | Cortlandt Van Rensselaer - 1856 - 708 strani
...than the felicities of Solomon. Prosperity is not without comforts and hopes. We see in needleworks and embroideries, it is more pleasing to have a lively work upon a dark and solemn ground, than to have a dark and melancholy work upon a lightsome ground ; judge therefore... | |
 | 1857 - 654 strani
...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 where they are incensed or crushed ; for prosperity doth best discover vice,... | |
 | 1857 - 372 strani
...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, but... | |
 | 1857 - 584 strani
...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...of the pleasure of the heart by the pleasure of the eve. Certainly virtue is like precious odours : most fragrant where they are incensed or crushed ;... | |
 | 1857 - 240 strani
...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...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... | |
 | William Henry Smith - 1857 - 188 strani
...:— He that ears my land, spares my team, And gives me leave to inn my crop. Of Adversity : — , It is more pleasing to have a lively work upon a sad...dark and melancholy work upon a lightsome ground. Henry IV. act i. sc. 2 : — Bright metals on a sullen ground Will show more goodly, and attract more... | |
 | William Henry Smith - 1857 - 190 strani
...comforts and hopes. We see in needleworks and embroideries, it is more pleasing to have a lively work on a sad and solemn ground, than to have a dark and melancholy...work upon a lightsome ground. Judge therefore of the pleasures of the heart by the pleasure of the eye. Certainly virtue is like precious odours, most fragrant... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1857 - 412 strani
...Adverfity is not 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 a lightfome Ground : Judge, therefore, of the Pleafure of the Heart, by the Pleafure of the Eye. Certainly,... | |
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