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
| Basil Montagu, Hannah Mary Rathbone - 1845 - 396 páginas
...without many fears and distastes ; and adversity is not without comfort and hopes. We see in needle works and embroideries, it is more pleasing to have a lively...of the pleasure of the heart by the pleasure of the eye. Certainly virtue is like pleasant odors, most fragrant when they are incensed, or crushed ; for... | |
| Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1846 - 782 páginas
...you shall hear as many heurselike airs as carols; and the pencil of the Holy Ghost hath laboured more e many critics, and some of great name, who contrive,...breath, to extol the poems and to decry the poet. eye. Certainly virtue is like precious odours, most fragrant when they are incensed or crushed ; for... | |
| George Lillie Craik - 1846 - 730 páginas
...describing Christian resolution that saileth in the frail bark of the flesh through the waves of the world We see in needle-works 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 incensed or crushed ; for... | |
| 1846 - 302 páginas
...distates; and Adversity is not without comforts and hopes. \Ve see in needle-workers and imbroiderers, it is more pleasing to have a lively work upon a sad...of the 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... | |
| George Lillie Craik - 1846 - 732 páginas
...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... | |
| 1846 - 308 páginas
...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...of the 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... | |
| Robert Chambers - 1847 - 712 páginas
...shall hear as many hearselike airs as carols ; and the pencil of the Holy Ghost hath laboured more eath decreed : Then with this fatal sword, on which bopes. We see in needle-works and embroideries, it is more pleasing to have a lively work upon a sad... | |
| Robert Chambers - 1847 - 712 páginas
...shall hear as many hearsclike airs as carols ; and the pencil of the Holy Ghost hath laboured more music's sports all difference refuses. His certain life, that hopee. We see in needle-works and embroideries, it is more pleasing to have a lively work upon a sad... | |
| Bengal council of educ - 1848 - 394 páginas
...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...of the 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... | |
| Robert Chambers - 1849 - 708 páginas
...is not without many fears and distastes ; and adversity is not without comfort« and hopes. Л\*е see in needle-works and embroideries, it is more pleasing...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 :... | |
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