 Prosperity is not without many fears and distastes ; and adversity is not without comforts and hopes. 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...  The British Prose Writers - Page 201821Full view - About this book
 | Robert Chambers - English literature - 1850 - 710 pages
...upon a sad and solemn ground, than to have a dark and melancholy work upon a lightsome ground ; judge on princes' favours ! There is, betwixt that smile we would aspire C*rtainly, virtue is like precious odours, most fragrant where they are incensed or crushed : for prosperity... | |
 | Christianity - 1850 - 632 pages
...tlie pleasures of the eye. Certainly virtue is like precious odours— most fragrant when they are crushed : for prosperity doth best discover vice, but adversity doth best discover virtue. — Lord Bacon,. THE CHRISTIAN'S HUSBANDRY. THAT the mind of man may be worthily employed and taken... | |
 | Francis Bacon (visct. St. Albans.) - 1851 - 228 pages
...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...vice, but adversity doth best discover virtue*. VI. OP SIMULATION AND DISSIMULATION. < . Dissimulation is but a faint kind of policy, or wisdom ; for it... | |
 | Edward Hughes - 1851 - 362 pages
...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...discover vice, but adversity doth best discover virtue." — Bacon. Now, my co-mates and brothers in exile, Hath not old custom made this life more sweet Than... | |
 | Abraham Mills - English literature - 1851 - 594 pages
...upon a sad and solemn ground, than to have a dark and melancholy work upon * lightsome ground ; judge, therefore, of the pleasure of the heart by the pleasure...discover vice, but adversity doth best discover virtue. FRIENDSHIP. It had been hard for him that spake it, to have put more truth and untruth together in... | |
 | Abraham Mills - English literature - 1851 - 602 pages
...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...discover vice, but adversity doth, best discover virtue. FRIENDSHIP. It had been hard for him that spake it, to have put more truth and untruth together in... | |
 | Ears - 1851 - 176 pages
...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...Certainly, virtue is like precious odours, most fragrant when they are incensed or crushed; for prosperity doth best discover vice, but adversity doth best... | |
 | Education - 1851 - 626 pages
...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." What are these images of, viz., the " lively work ;" the " sad and solemn ground;" the "dark and melancholy... | |
 | Edward George E.L. Bulwer- Lytton (1st baron.) - 1852 - 332 pages
...body, and burst into tears. 160 161 CHAPTER XLIX. Virtue is like precious odours, most fragrant when they are incensed or crushed : for prosperity doth...discover vice, but adversity doth best discover virtue. — BACON. IT is somewhat remarkable, that while Talbot was bequeathing to Clarence, as the most valuable... | |
 | English essays - 1852 - 780 pages
...upon a sad and solemn ground, than to have a dark and melancholy work upon a lightsome ground. Judge l looked up, with the f ye. Certainly virtue is like precious odours, most fragrant when they are incensed or crashed ; for... | |
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