 | Francis Bacon - 1909 - 368 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 8 and solemn ground, than to have a dark and melancholy work upon a lightsome ground: judge therefore... | |
 | Robert Maynard Leonard - English literature - 1912 - 788 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... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - English literature - 1913 - 824 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... | |
 | William Henry Hudson - 1914 - 362 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... | |
 | Ernest Rhys - English essays - 1915 - 518 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 - English literature - 1916 - 368 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... | |
 | William Frank Bryan, Ronald Salmon Crane - English essays - 1916 - 540 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... | |
 | Franklyn Bliss Snyder, Robert Grant Martin - English literature - 1916 - 468 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...lightsome ground: judge therefore of the pleasure of the [50 heart by the pleasure of the eye. Certainly virtue is like precious odors, most fragrant when they... | |
 | Roy Bennett Pace - English literature - 1917 - 536 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...solemn ground, than to have a dark and melancholy 35 work upon a lightsome ground ; judge therefore of the pleasure of the heart by the pleasure of the... | |
 | Roy Bennett Pace - English literature - 1918 - 986 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...solemn ground, than to have a dark and melancholy 35 work upon a lightsome ground ; judge therefore of the pleasure of the heart by the pleasure of the... | |
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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.... 
