 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - English literature - 1846 - 782 pages
...favour. Vet, even in the Old Testament, if you listen to David's harp you shall hear as many heurselike ractors, however, though out-voted, have not been...breath, to extol the poems and to decry the poet. pleasure of the heart by the pleasure of the eye. Certainly virtue is like precious odours, most fragrant... | |
 | George Lillie Craik - Philosophers - 1846 - 730 pages
...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...work upon a lightsome ground. Judge therefore of the pleasure of the heart by the pleasure of the eye. Certainly virtue is like precious odours, most fragrant... | |
 | George Lillie Craik - 1846 - 732 pages
...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...work upon a lightsome ground. Judge therefore of the pleasure of the heart hy the pleasure of the eye. Certainly virtue is like precious odours, most fragrant... | |
 | American literature - 1846 - 302 pages
...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...work upon a lightsome ground. Judge therefore of the pleasure of the heart by the pleasure of the eye. Certainly virtue is like pre cious odors, most fragrant... | |
 | Robert Chambers - English literature - 1847 - 712 pages
...Prosperity is not without many fears and distastes ; and adversity is not without comforts and bopes. with half the loss of mine. Like a rich conquest, in one hand I bore her, And with the other pleasure of the heart by the pleasure of the eye. Certainly, virtue is like precious odours, most fragrant... | |
 | Robert Chambers - Authors, English - 1847 - 712 pages
...Prosperity is not without many fears and distastes; and adversity is not without comforts and hopee. in any man, hath somewhat of the savage beast ; but...proceed, not out of a pleasure in solitude, but out of a pleasure of the heart by the pleasure of the eye. Certainly, virtue is like precious odours, moet fragrant... | |
 | Francis Bacon, Basil Montagu - 1848 - 594 pages
...that saileth in the frail bark of the flesh through the waves of the world." But to speak in a mean, the virtue of prosperity is temperance, the virtue...upon a lightsome ground : judge, therefore, of the pleasure of the heart by the pleasure of the eye. Certainly virtue is like precious odoure, most fragrant... | |
 | Bengal council of educ - 1848 - 394 pages
...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...upon a lightsome ground : judge, therefore, of the pleasure of the heart by the pleasure of the eye." What are these images of, viz., the "lively work;"... | |
 | John Locke - Intellect - 1849 - 372 pages
...the more heroical virtue. Prosperity is the blessing of the Old Testament, adversity is the blessmg of the New, which carrieth the greater benediction,...upon a lightsome ground : judge, therefore, of the pleasure of the heart by the pleasure of the eye. - Certainly virtue is like precious odours, most... | |
 | Robert Chambers - English literature - 1849 - 708 pages
...is not without many fears and distastes ; and adversity is not without comfort« and hopes. Л\*е ister Graces more, To ivy-crowned Bacchus bore ; Or...playing, As he met her once a-maying, There on beds of v pleasure of the heart by the pleasure of the eye. Certainly, virtue is like precious odours, most fragrant... | |
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Yet, even in the Old Testament, if you listen to David's harp, you 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 Solomon. Prosperity is not... 
