 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....  Essays, Critical and Miscellaneous - Página 287por Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1858 - 744 páginasVista completa - Acerca de este libro
 | Francis Bacon (visct. St. Albans.) - 1840 - 244 páginas
...pencil of the Holy Ghost hath laboured more in describing the afflictions of Job than the felicitiesof Solomon. Prosperity is not without many fears and...of the 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... | |
 | 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...of the pleasure of the heart by the pleasure of the eye. BACON . EVERYTHING seemed now really prosperous. Laura found her mother much disappointed, it... | |
 | 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... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1843 - 520 páginas
...shall hear as many hearse-like airs as carols ; and the pencil of the Holy Ghost hath laboured more in describing the afflictions of Job than the felicities...of the 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... | |
 | Cazneau Palfrey - 1839 - 448 páginas
...shall hear as many herse-like airs as carols ; and the pencil of the Holy Ghost hath laboured more in describing the afflictions of Job than the felicities...; and adversity is not without comforts and hopes. Certainly virtue is like precious odours, most fragrant where they are incensed, or crushed ; for prosperity... | |
 | 1864 - 704 páginas
...shall hear as many hearse-like airs as carols; and t hepencil of the Holy Ghost hath laboured more in describing the afflictions of Job than the felicities...of the 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... | |
 | 636 páginas
...shall hear as many hearse-like airs as carols ; and the pencil of the Holy Ghost hath laboured more in describing the afflictions of Job than the felicities...of 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... | |
 | 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,...of the 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... | |
 | Samuel Griswold Goodrich - 1844 - 336 páginas
...the mathematics subtle, natural philosophy deep, morals grave, logic and rhetoric able to contend." " Prosperity is not without many fears and distastes,...of the 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... | |
 | 1835 - 638 páginas
...secure, that to this very hour, I firmly believe that no one but a carpenter could ever have got me out." WE see in needleworks and embroideries, it is more...of the pleasure of the heart by the pleasure of the eye. Certainly virtue is like precious odours, most fragrant when they are crushed ; for prosperity... | |
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