 | Literature - 1909 - 378 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 odors, most fragrant when they are incensed or crushed: for prosperity... | |
 | Alfred Pownall - Bible - 1864 - 112 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... | |
 | Robert Bridges - Church music - 870 pages
...the Creator and the reliefe of mans estate.' Orageinthis: 'Wf see in Needle'works and Embroyderies, it is more pleasing to have a lively work upon a sad...dark and melancholy work upon a lightsome ground. Judg therefore of the pleasure of the Heart, by the pleasure of the Eye.' I assert of these passages... | |
 | Philip Edwards - Literary Criticism - 1997 - 244 pages
...pleasing, to have a Lively Worke, upon a Sad and Solemne Ground; then to have a Darke and Melancholy Worke, upon a Lightsome Ground: Judge therefore, of the Pleasure of the Heart, by the Pleasure of the Eye. Certainly, Vertue is like pretious Odours, most fragrant, when they are incensed, or crushed: For Prosperity... | |
 | Francis Bacon - Biography & Autobiography - 2000 - 470 pages
...Solemne Ground; then to have a Darke and Melancholy Worke, upon a Lightsome Ground: Judge therfore, of the Pleasure of the Heart, by the Pleasure of the Eye. Certainly, Vertue is like pretious Odours, most fragrant, when they are incensed, or crushed: For Prosperity... | |
 | Francis Bacon - English essays - 2002 - 868 pages
...lively work0 upon a sad0 and solemn ground,0 than to have a dark and melancholy work upon a lightsome0 ground: judge therefore of the pleasure of the heart by the pleasure of the eye. Certainly virtue is like precious odours, most fragrant when they are incensed0 or crushed:0 for Prosperity... | |
 | Charles Haddon Spurgeon - Religion - 716 pages
...describing the afflictions of Job than the felicities of Solomon. We see, in needleworks and embroideries, it is more pleasing to have a lively work upon a sad...upon a lightsome ground; judge, therefore, of the pleasures of the heart by the pleasures of the eye. Certainly virtue is like precious odors — most... | |
 | Francis Bacon - Literary Collections - 2007 - 157 pages
...hopes. We see in needle-works and embroideries, it is more pleasing to have a lively work upon a sadf and solemn ground, than to have a dark and melancholy...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... | |
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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.... 
