 | 1852 - 780 páginas
...afflictions of Job than the felicities of Solomon. Prosperity is not without many fears and dislaMcs ; arid adversity is not without comforts and hopes. We see...of the pleasure of the heart by the pleasure of the f ye. Certainly virtue is like precious odours, most fragrant when they are incensed or crashed ; for... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1852 - 764 páginas
...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...heart by the pleasure of the eye. Certainly virtue is like precious odours, most fragrant when they are incensed or crushed ; for prosperity doth best... | |
 | Francis Bacon (visct. St. Albans.) - 1853 - 176 páginas
...describing the afflictions of Job than the felicities of Solomon. Prosperity is not without many fears and distastes ; and adversity is not without comforts...heart by the pleasure of the eye. Certainly virtue is like precious odours, most fragrant where they are incensed, or crushed ; for prosperity doth best... | |
 | Robert Chambers - 1853 - 716 páginas
...describing the afflictions of Job than the felicities of Solomon. Prosperity is not without many fears and distastes ; and adversity is not without comforts...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.... | |
 | 1853 - 792 páginas
...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,... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1854 - 894 páginas
...describing the afflictions of Job than the felicities of Solomon. Prosperity is not without many fears and distastes ; and adversity is not without comforts...heart by the pleasure of the eye. Certainly virtue is like precious odours, most fragrant when they are incensed or crushed ; for prosperity doth best... | |
 | Kenelm Henry Digby - 1854 - 626 páginas
...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... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1856 - 406 páginas
...describing the ^afflictions of Job than the felicities of Solomon. Prosperity is not without many fears and distastes; and adversity is not without comforts...heart by the pleasure of the eye. Certainly, virtue is like precious odors, most fragrant when they are incensed, or crushed ; for prosperity doth best... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1856 - 752 páginas
...Solomon. Prosperity is riot without many fears and distastes; and adversity is not without comforts ami hopes. We see in needleworks and embroideries it is...heart by the pleasure of the eye. Certainly virtue is like precious odours, most fragrant when they are incensed or crushed; for prosperity doth best... | |
 | John Timbs - 1856 - 378 páginas
...grows weary of examining, and is tempted to consider all as equally fallacious. — Johnson. I.XIX. We see in needleworks and embroideries, it is more...heart by the pleasure of the eye. Certainly virtue is like precious odours, most fragrant where they are incensed or crushed : for prosperity doth best... | |
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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.... 
