 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 pleasing to have a lively work upon a sad and solemn ground, than to have a dark and melancholy work...  The British Prose Writers - Page 201821Full view - About this book
 | Basil Montagu, Hannah Mary Rathbone - English literature - 1845 - 396 pages
...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. Certainly virtue is like pleasant odors, most fragrant when they are incensed, or crushed ; for prosperity doth best discover... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - English literature - 1846 - 782 pages
...upon a sad and .solemn ground, than to have a dark and melancholy work upon a lightsome ground. Judge an alienate Cicero. No heresy can excite the honor of Bossuet. Nothing, then, can be when they are incensed or crushed ; for prosperity doth best discover vice, but adversity doth best... | |
 | George Lillie Craik - Philosophers - 1846 - 778 pages
...upon a sad and solemn ground, man to have a dark and melancholy work upon a lightsome ground. Judge therefore of the pleasure of the heart by the pleasure...Certainly virtue is like precious odours, most fragrant when they are incensed or crushed; for prosperity doth best discover vice, but adversity doth best... | |
 | George Lillie Craik - Philosophers - 1846 - 730 pages
...the heart by the pleasure of the eye. Certainly virtue is like precious odours, most fragrant when they are incensed or crushed ; for prosperity doth...discover vice, but adversity doth best discover virtue. The Sixth Essay, ' Of Simulation and Dissimulation,' was likewise new in 1625. The following are its... | |
 | American literature - 1846 - 308 pages
...the heart by the pleasure of the eye. Certainly virtue is like pre cious odors, most fragrant when they are incensed or crushed; for Prosperity doth...discover vice, but Adversity doth best discover virtue. SONG FOR AUGUST. BT HARRIETT MAHTINEAU. Beneath this starry arch, Nought resteth or is still ; But... | |
 | American literature - 1846 - 302 pages
...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. Certainly virtue is like pre cious odors, most fragrant when they are incensed or crushed; for Prosperity doth best discover... | |
 | George Lillie Craik - 1846 - 732 pages
...a dark and melancholy work upon a lightsome 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 incensed or crushed; for prosperity doth hest discover vice, hut adversity doth hest... | |
 | Robert Chambers - English literature - 1847 - 712 pages
...upon a sad and solemn ground, than to have a dark and melancholy work upon a lightsome ground ; judge ound under my feete was so hot, that it even burnt...meantime his Maty got to the Tower by water, to demol arc incensed or crushed : for prosperity doth best discover vice, but adversity doth best discover... | |
 | Robert Chambers - Authors, English - 1847 - 712 pages
...upon a sad and solemn ground, than to have a dark and melancholy work upon a lightsome ground ; judge e, but out of a love and desire moet fragrant where they arc incensed or crushed : for prosperity doth best discover vice, but adversity... | |
 | Congregational union of England and Wales - 1848 - 684 pages
...upon a sad and solemn ground, than to have a dark and melancholy work npon a lightsome ground. Judge, therefore, of the pleasure of the heart by the pleasure...Certainly, virtue is like precious odours, most fragrant when they are crushed ; for prosperity doth best discover vice, bnt adversity doth best discover virtue.... | |
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