 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
 | William Frank Bryan, Ronald Salmon Crane - 1916 - 540 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...pleasure of the eye. Certainly virtue is like precious odours, most fragrant when they are incensed or crushed : for prosperity doth best discover vice ;... | |
 | Robert Bridges - 1916 - 368 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 when they are incensed or crushed : For Prosperity doth best discover Vice, but... | |
 | Franklyn Bliss Snyder, Robert Grant Martin - 1916 - 468 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...lightsome ground: judge therefore of the pleasure of the [50 heart by the pleasure of the eye. Certainly virtue is like precious odors, most fragrant when they... | |
 | Franklyn Bliss Snyder, Robert Grant Martin - 1916 - 964 strani
...have a dark and melancholy work upon a lightsome ground : judge therefore of the pleasure of the [50 ico fragrant when they are incensed or crushed: for prosperity doth best discover vice; but adversity... | |
 | Roy Bennett Pace - 1917 - 536 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...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... | |
 | Edwin Lillie Miller - 1917 - 690 strani
...vantage ground of Truth." Of Truth. " Men fear death as children fear to go into the dark." Of Death. " Virtue is, like precious odors, most fragrant when they are incensed or crushed." Of Adversity. " Let parents choose betimes the vocations and courses their children should take." Of... | |
 | Roy Bennett Pace - 1918 - 986 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...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 - 1918 - 428 strani
...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... | |
 | William Hurrell Mallock - 1920 - 418 strani
...also? According to differences of taste and temperament, different persons will answer this question Virtue is like precious odors, Most fragrant when they are incensed or crushed. Prosperity doth best discover vice. Adversity doth best discover virtue. This passage, with Macaulay's... | |
 | William Shirley Tomkinson - 1921 - 248 strani
...mark. Bacon has some magnificent endings in the Essays. ' Certainly, Vertue is like pretious Odours, most fragrant, when they are incensed, or crushed : For Prosperity doth best discover Vice ; but Adversitie doth best discover Vertue/ There is a fine finality about this ; it reads as if it were... | |
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