 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - English literature - 1843 - 520 pages
...distastes ; and adversity is not without comforts and hopes. We see in needle-works and embroideries it is more pleasing to have a lively work upon a sad...pleasure of the heart by the pleasure of the eye. Certainly virtue is like precious odours, most fragrant when they are incensed or crushed; for prosperity... | |
 | Samuel Griswold Goodrich - Indians - 1844 - 680 pages
...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...pleasure of the heart by the pleasure of the eye. Certainly, virtue is like precious odors, most fragrant when they are incensed or crushed ; for prosperity... | |
 | 1864 - 704 pages
...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...pleasure of the heart by the pleasure of the eye. Certainly virtue is like precious odours, most fragrant when they are incensed, or crushed : for prosperity... | |
 | Samuel Griswold Goodrich - Biography - 1844 - 336 pages
...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...pleasure of the heart by the pleasure of the eye. Certainly, virtue is like precious odors, most fragrant when they are incensed or crushed ; for prosperity... | |
 | American literature - 1835 - 638 pages
...believe that no one but a carpenter could ever have got me out." WE see in needleworks and embroideries, it is more pleasing to have a lively work upon a sad...pleasure of the heart by the pleasure of the eye. Certainly virtue is like precious odours, most fragrant when they are crushed ; for prosperity doth... | |
 | Theology - 636 pages
...distastes; and adversity Is not without comforts and hopes. We see in needle-works and embroideries it is more pleasing to have a lively work upon a sad...the pleasure of the heart by the pleasure of the eye Certainly virtue is like precious odours, most fragrant where they are incensed or crushed ; for prosperity... | |
 | Basil Montagu, Hannah Mary Rathbone - English literature - 1845 - 396 pages
...distastes ; and adversity is not without comfort and hopes. We see in needle works and embroideries, it is more pleasing to have a lively work upon a sad...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... | |
 | American literature - 1846 - 302 pages
...distates; and Adversity is not without comforts and hopes. \Ve see in needle-workers and imbroiderers, it is more pleasing to have a lively work upon a sad...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... | |
 | George Lillie Craik - 1846 - 226 pages
...the frail bark of the flesh through the waves of the world We see in needle-works and embroideries it is more pleasing to have a lively work upon a sad...pleasure of the heart by the pleasure of the eye. Certainly virtue is like precious odours, most fragrant when they are incensed or crushed ; for prosperity... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - English literature - 1846 - 782 pages
...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...pleasure of the heart by the pleasure of the eye. Certainly virtue is like precious odours, most fragrant when they are incensed or crushed ; for prosperity... | |
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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.... 
