 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....  Essays, Critical and Miscellaneous - Page 287by Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1859 - 744 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Francis Bacon - English essays - 1812 - 348 pages
...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...Certainly virtue is like precious odours, most fragrant where they are incensed, or crushed; for prosperity doth best discover vice, but adversity doth best... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1815 - 310 pages
...favour. Yet, even in the Old Testament, if you listen to David's harp, you shall hear as many herselike airs as carols ; and the pencil of the Holy Ghost...Certainly, virtue is like precious odours, most fragrant where they are incensed or crushed ; for prosperity doth best discover vice, but adversity doth best... | |
 | Francis Bacon - English essays - 1820 - 548 pages
...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...Certainly virtue is like precious odours, most fragrant where they are incensed, or crushed: for prosperity doth best discover vice, but adversity doth best... | |
 | Henry Southern - 1821 - 398 pages
...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...Certainly virtue is like precious odours, most fragrant where they are incensed or crushed : for prosperity doth best discover vice, but adversity doth best... | |
 | Books - 1821 - 400 pages
...favour. Yet even in the Old Testament, if you listen to David's harp, you shall hear as many herselike airs as carols ; and the pencil of the Holy Ghost...Certainly virtue is like precious odours, most fragrant where they are incensed or crushed : for prosperity doth best discover vice, but adversity doth best... | |
 | Books - 1821 - 398 pages
...favour. Yet even in the Old Testament, if you listen to David's harp, you shall hear as many herselike airs as carols ; and the pencil of the Holy Ghost...Certainly virtue is like precious odours, most fragrant where they are incensed or crushed : for prosperity doth best discover vice, but adversity doth best... | |
 | British prose literature - 1821 - 416 pages
...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... | |
 | Henry Southern, Sir Nicholas Harris Nicolas - Bibliography - 1821 - 402 pages
...and hopes. We see in needle-works and embroideries, it is more pleasing to have a lively work upon . sad and solemn ground, than to have a dark and melancholy...Certainly virtue is like precious odours, most fragrant where they are incensed or crushed : for prosperity doth best discover vice, but adversity doth best... | |
 | Laconics - 1829 - 390 pages
...grows weary of examining, and is tempted to consider all as equally fallacious. — Johnson. LXIX. We see in needleworks and embroideries, it is more...Certainly virtue is like precious odours, most fragrant where they are incensed or crushed; for prosperity doth best discover vice, but adversity doth best... | |
 | Thomas Curtis - Aeronautics - 1829 - 834 pages
...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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