 | Edward Hughes - 1851 - 362 pages
...not/without comforts and hopes. We see in needle-works and embroideries, it is more pleasing to have lively work upon a sad and solemn ground, than to...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... | |
 | English essays - 1852 - 780 pages
...afflictions of Job than the felicities of Solomon. Prosperity is not without many fears and dislaMcs ; arid adversity is not without comforts and hopes. We see...work upon a lightsome ground. Judge therefore of the pleasure of the heart by the pleasure of the f ye. Certainly virtue is like precious odours, most fragrant... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - English literature - 1852 - 764 pages
...adversity is not without comforts and hopes. We see in needleworks and embroideries it is more pleasing lo have a lively work upon a sad and solemn ground, than...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... | |
 | Francis Bacon (visct. St. Albans.) - 1853 - 176 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...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... | |
 | Robert Chambers - Authors, English - 1853 - 716 pages
...favour. Yet even in the Old Testament, if you listen to David's harp, you shall hear as many hearsclike airs as carols ; and the pencil of the Holy Ghost...solemn ground, than to have a dark and melancholy rk upon a lightsome ground ; judge therefore of the pleasure of the heurt by the pleasure of the eye.... | |
 | 1853 - 792 pages
...taste of such cunning judges of pictorial effect as the father of English philosophy, who says, " as in needleworks and embroideries it is more pleasing...dark and melancholy work upon a lightsome ground, so we may judge the pleasure of the heart by the pleasure of the eye." So, for the mere picturesque,... | |
 | Francis Bacon - Ethics - 1854 - 894 pages
...through the waves of the world. But to speak in a mean : the virtue of prosperity is temperarice ; on of the Roman twelve tables ; " salus populi suprema...are but things captious, and oracles not well inspi pleasure of the heart by the pleasure of the eye. Certainly virtue is like precious odours, most fragrant... | |
 | Kenelm Henry Digby - 1854 - 626 pages
...present us with may even inspire for that reason the greater pleasure ; for, as a great author says, " We see in needleworks and embroideries it is more...a dark and melancholy work upon a lightsome ground ;" or, as Hazlitt says in his charming essay upon Merry England, " I do not see how there can be high... | |
 | Abraham Mills - English literature - 1856 - 590 pages
...PROSPERITY AND ADVERSITY. The virtue of prosperity is temperance ; the virtue of adversity is fortitude. Prosperity is the blessing of the Old Testament ;...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... | |
 | Harvey Buckland - Christian life - 1856 - 208 pages
...David's harp, you shall hear as many hearse-like airs as carols; and the pencil of the holy Spirit hath laboured more in describing the afflictions of...like precious odours, most fragrant when they are crushed; for prosperity doth best discover vice, but adversity doth best discover virtue. Lord Bacon.... | |
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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... 
