 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
 | Cortlandt Van Rensselaer - Presbyterian Church - 1856 - 708 pages
...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 of the pleasures of the heart by the pleasures of the eye. Certainly virtue is like precious odours, most... | |
 | 1856 - 702 pages
...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 of the pleasures of the heart by the pleasures of the eye. Certainly virtue is like precious odours, most... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - English essays - 1856 - 770 pages
...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... | |
 | Francis Bacon, Richard Whately - Conduct of life - 1857 - 578 pages
...hopes. We see in needleworks and embroideries, it is more pleasing to have a lively work upon a sad2 and solemn ground, than to have a dark and melancholy...like precious odours, most fragrant where they are incensed3 or crushed ; for prosperity doth best discover vice, but adversity doth best discover virtue.... | |
 | Francis Bacon - English literature - 1858 - 812 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... | |
 | 1857 - 584 pages
...and, hopes. 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...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 ;... | |
 | William Henry Smith - Catholics - 1857 - 188 pages
...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... | |
 | Literature - 1857 - 240 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...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 - Catholics - 1857 - 190 pages
...gives me leave to inn my crop. Of Adversity : — 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. Henry IV. act i. sc. 2 : — Bright metals on a sullen ground Will show more goodly, and attract more... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1857 - 412 pages
...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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