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" We see, in needleworks 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.... "
Lord Macaulay's Essays ; And, Lays of Ancient Rome - Página 437
por Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1892 - 924 páginas
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The British Prose Writers, Volumen1

1821 - 416 páginas
...favour. Yet even in the Old Testament, if you listen to David's harp, you shall hear as many herse-like airs as carols; and the pencil of the Holy Ghost hath...a dark and melancholy work upon a lightsome ground : jndge, therefore of the pleasure of the heart by the pleasure of the eye. Certainly virtue is like...
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A London Encyclopaedia, Or Universal Dictionary of Science, Art ..., Volumen8

Thomas Curtis - 1829 - 834 páginas
...embroidery, Buckled below fair knighthood's bending knee. Shakrpeare. We see in needleworks and mbnideriei, it is more pleasing to have a lively work upon a sad...pleasure of the heart by the pleasure of the eye. Bacon. Quality alone should only serve to make a shew in the embroidered part of the government j hut...
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The Family monitor

1831 - 548 páginas
...hearse-like airs, as carols. And the pencil of the Holy Ghost hath laboured more in describing the affliotion of Job than the felicities of Solomon. Prosperity...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 burned...
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Essays and Selections

Basil Montagu - 1837 - 382 páginas
...pursuit ; Know, prudent, cautious, self-control Is wisdom's root. 108 HOBBES'S THEORY OF LAUGHTER. II 7 " We see in needleworks and embroideries, it is more...pleasure of the heart by the pleasure of the eye." HOBBES'S THEORY OF LAUGHTER. Soon after I was called to the bar I happened to be in the criminal court...
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Southern Literary Messenger, Volumen4

1838 - 870 páginas
...without many fears and distastes; and adversity is not without comforts and hopes. We see in needle works and embroideries it is more pleasing to have a lively...pleasure of the eye. Certainly virtue is like precious odors, most fragrant when they are incensed or crushed ; for prosperity doth best discover vice, but...
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Critical and Miscellaneous Essays, Volumen2

Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1840 - 512 páginas
...harp you shall hear as many hearselike airs as carols ; and the pencil of the Holy Ghost hath labored more in describing the afflictions of Job than the...pleasure of the eye. Certainly virtue is like precious odors, most fragrant when they are incensed or crushed ; for prosperity doth best discover vice, but...
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Supplement to the Courant, Volúmenes20-23

1855 - 676 páginas
...hearse-like airs as carols; and the pencil of the Holy Ghost hath labored more in describing the affiiclious of Job than the felicities of Solomon, — Prosperity...pleasure of the eye. Certainly, virtue is like precio'us odors, more fragrant where they are incensed or crushed ; for prosperity doth best discover vice, but...
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A good match, The heiress of Drosberg, and The cathedral chorister

Henrietta Georgiana Chatterton (M. lady.) - 1840 - 1020 páginas
...many fears and distastes; and adversity is not without comforts and hopes. We see in needleworks aoid embroideries, it is more pleasing to have a lively...pleasure of the heart by the pleasure of the eye. BACON . EVERYTHING seemed now really prosperous. Laura found her mother much disappointed, it was true,...
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The Hand-book of Needlework

Miss Lambert (F.) - 1842 - 300 páginas
...$cCHAPTER XV (funiuiG tUork, " The threaded steel Plies swiftly, and unfelt the task proceeds." COWPER. '' In needleworks and embroideries, it is more pleasing...dark and melancholy work upon a lightsome ground." BACON. HE reason for comprising the various subjects included in this chapter under one head, is, that...
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Lives of Celebrated American Indians

Samuel Griswold Goodrich - 1844 - 680 páginas
...the mathematics subtle, natural philosophy deep, morals grave, logic and rhetoric able to contend." " Prosperity is not without many fears and distastes,...pleasure of the eye. Certainly, virtue is like precious odors, most fragrant when they are incensed or crushed ; for prosperity doth best discover vice, but...
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