 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - English literature - 1852 - 764 pages
...adversity is not without comforts and hopes. We see in needleworks and embroideries it is more pleasing lo have a lively work upon a sad and solemn ground, than...Certainly virtue is like precious odours, most fragrant when they are incensed or crushed ; for prosperity doth best discover vice, but adversity doth best... | |
 | Francis Bacon - English essays - 1852 - 394 pages
...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 alightfome Ground : Judge, therefore, of the Pleafure of the Heart, by the Pleafure of the Eye. Certainly,... | |
 | 1853 - 792 pages
...taste of such cunning judges of pictorial effect as the father of English philosophy, who says, " as in needleworks and embroideries it is more pleasing...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,... | |
 | Robert Chambers - Authors, English - 1853 - 716 pages
...Prosperity is not without many fears and distastes ; and adversity is not without comforts and hopes. We see in needle-works and embroideries, it is more...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.... | |
 | Francis Bacon - Ethics - 1854 - 894 pages
...Prosperity is not without many fears and distastes ; and adversity is not without comforts and hopes. to be cleansed every day by the hand. Also some steps...may call a bathing pool, it may admit much curiosity when they are incensed or crushed ; for prosperity doth best discover vice, but adversity doth best... | |
 | Kenelm Henry Digby - 1854 - 626 pages
...present us with may even inspire for that reason the greater pleasure ; for, as a great author says, " We see in needleworks and embroideries it is more...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... | |
 | Edward H. Dixon - Medicine - 1855 - 468 pages
...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... | |
 | Francis Bacon - English essays - 1856 - 406 pages
...Prosperity is not without many fears and distastes; and adversity is not without comforts and hopes. We see, in needleworks and embroideries, it is more...pleasure of the eye. Certainly, virtue is like precious odors, most fragrant when they are incensed, or crushed ; for prosperity doth best discover vice, but... | |
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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.... 
