 | George Lillie Craik - 1846 - 732 pages
...the frail hark of the flesh through the waves of the world We see in needle-works and emhroideries it is more pleasing to have a lively work upon a sad...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... | |
 | American literature - 1846 - 308 pages
...comforts and hopes. We see in needle-workers and imbroiderers, it is more pleasing to have a lively woik upon a sad and solemn ground, than to have a dark...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 - Philosophers - 1846 - 778 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 and solemn ground, man to have a dark and melancholy work upon a lightsome ground. Judge therefore of the pleasure of... | |
 | Robert Chambers - English literature - 1847 - 712 pages
...distastes ; and adversity is not without comforts and bopes. We see in needle-works and embroideries, conquest, in one hand I bore her, And with the other Certainly, virtue is like precious odours, most fragrant where they arc incensed or crushed : for prosperity... | |
 | Robert Chambers - Authors, English - 1847 - 712 pages
...distastes; and adversity is not without comforts and hopee. We see in needle-works and embroideries, east ; but it is most untrue, that it should have...pleasure in solitude, but out of a love and desire Certainly, virtue is like precious odours, moet fragrant where they arc incensed or crushed : for prosperity... | |
 | Bengal council of educ - 1848 - 394 pages
...adversity is not without comforts and hopes. We see in needle-works and embroideries, it is more pleasant to have a lively work upon a sad and solemn ground...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... | |
 | Congregational union of England and Wales - 1848 - 684 pages
...distastes ; and adversity ie not without comforts and hopes. We see in needleworks and embroideries, it ie more pleasing to have a lively work 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 of .the eye.... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - English literature - 1850 - 338 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... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1850 - 892 pages
...not without comforts and hopes. We see in needleworks and embroideries, it is more pleasing to bar; a lively work upon a sad and solemn ground, than to...pleasure of the heart by the pleasure of the eye. Certainly virtue is like precious odours, piost fragrant when they are incensed or crushed 0)for prosperity... | |
 | Francis Bacon - Biography - 1850 - 590 pages
...distastes ; and adversity is not without comforts and hopes. We see in needleworks and embroideries, o pass, that envy worketh subtilly, and in the dark,...wheat. X. OF LOVE.« ! THE stage is more beholding to l pleasures of the heart by the pleasures of the eye. Certainly virtue is like precious odours, most... | |
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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.... 
