 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
 | Francis Bacon, Basil Montagu - 1848 - 594 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 precious odoure, most fragrant when they are incensed, or crushed : for prosperity doth best discover vice,... | |
 | Bengal council of educ - 1848 - 394 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." What are these images of, viz., the "lively work;" the "sad and solemn ground;" the "dark and melancholy... | |
 | Robert Chambers - English literature - 1849 - 708 pages
...upon a sad and solemn ground, than to have a dark and melancholy work upon a lightsome ground ; judge ere on beds of violets blue, And fresh blown-roses wash M in dew, Fill'd her with tliee [Friendship.] It bad been hard for him that spake it, to have put more truth and untruth together in... | |
 | John Locke - Intellect - 1849 - 372 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...discover vice, but adversity doth best discover virtue. OF SIMULATION AND DISSIMULATION. DISSIMULATION is but a faint kind of policy or wisdom ; for it asketh... | |
 | 1849 - 364 pages
...with delight. Lord Bacon compared virtue, or true manliness, to precious odors, "most fragrant when they are incensed or crushed; for prosperity doth...discover vice, but adversity doth best discover virtue." Here is a high truth, — but Jesus came, in the circumstances of his birth, in the toils and deprivations... | |
 | Elias Lyman Magoon - Christianity - 1849 - 446 pages
...with delight. Lord Bacon compared virtue, or true manliness, to precious odors, " most fragrant when they are incensed or crushed ; for prosperity doth...discover vice, but adversity doth best discover virtue." Here is a high truth ; but Jesus came, in the circumstances of his birth, in the toils and deprivations... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - English literature - 1850 - 338 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...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 - 1850 - 892 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...the eye. Certainly virtue is like precious odours, piost fragrant when they are incensed or crushed 0)for prosperity doth bes.t discover vice, but adversity... | |
 | Waldo Howard - 1850 - 310 pages
...in a glass of purl. CHAPTER XXVI. EDITH AND CLARA. Virtue is like precious odors, most fragrant when they are incensed or crushed ; for prosperity doth...discover vice, but adversity doth best discover virtue. — BACON. THE reader will remember the night when the two burglars and the little boy effected their... | |
 | Francis Bacon - Biography - 1850 - 590 pages
...the heart by the pleasure of the eye. Certainly virtue is like precious odours, most fragrant when e Other discourse-, that he be not too much 3£ake to discoe ver virtue. OF SIMULATION AND DISSIMULATION.* -^ ;• DISSIMULATION is but a faint kind of policy,... | |
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