We see in needleworks 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.... Retrospective Review - Page 142edited by - 1821Full view - About this book
| Francis Bacon (visct. St. Albans.) - 1818 - 310 pages
...and hopes. 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...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 - Conduct of life - 1818 - 312 pages
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| Francis Bacon - Philosophy - 1819 - 580 pages
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| British prose literature - 1821 - 416 pages
...and hopes. 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 : jndge, therefore of the pleasure of the heart by the pleasure of the eye. Certainly virtue is like... | |
| Francis Bacon - English prose literature - 1825 - 524 pages
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| Francis Bacon, Basil Montagu - 1825 - 550 pages
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| Thomas Curtis - Aeronautics - 1829 - 834 pages
...Shakrpeare. We see in needleworks and mbnideriei, it is more pleasing to have a lively work upon a sad and solemn ground, than to have a dark and melancholy...pleasure of the heart by the pleasure of the eye. Bacon. Quality alone should only serve to make a shew in the embroidered part of the government j hut... | |
| 1831 - 548 pages
...and hopes. 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...ground. Judge, therefore, of the pleasure of the heart hy the pleasure of the eye. Certainly virtue is like precious odours, most fragrant when they are burned... | |
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