 Solomon. 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...  The Passionate Pilgrim: Or Eros and Anteros - Page 137by Francis Turner Palgrave - 1858 - 246 pagesFull view - About this book
 | 1852 - 780 pages
...more pleasing to have a lively work upon a sad and solemn ground, than to have a dark and melancholy dotus, it should seem that they still looked up, with the f ye. Certainly virtue is like precious odours, most fragrant when they are incensed or crashed ; for... | |
 | Francis Bacon (visct. St. Albans.) - 1853 - 176 pages
...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...pleasure of the heart by the pleasure of the eye. Certainly virtue is like precious odours, most fragrant where they are incensed, or crushed ; for prosperity... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1854 - 894 pages
...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...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 prosperity... | |
 | 1856 - 374 pages
...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...pleasure of the heart by the pleasure of the eye. Certainly virtue is like precious odours, most fragrant where they are incensed or crushed : for prosperity... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1856 - 406 pages
...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...pleasure of the heart by the pleasure of the eye. Certainly, virtue is like precious odors, most fragrant when they are incensed, 01 crushed ; for prosperity... | |
 | Francis Bacon (visct. St. Albans.) - 1856 - 562 pages
...more pleasing to have a lively work upon a sad5 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 pleasnre of the eye. Certainly virtue is like precious odours, most fragrant where they are incensed/... | |
 | Edward Hughes - 1856 - 474 pages
...more pleasing to have 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 hy the pleasure of the eye. Certainly, virtue is like precious odours, most fragrant where they are... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1856 - 770 pages
...work apon a sad and solemn ground, than to have a dark and melancholy work upon a lightsome »round. Judge therefore of the pleasure of the heart by the pleasure of the fye. Certainly virtue is like precious odours, Bust fragrant when they are incensed or crushed; for... | |
 | 1857 - 372 pages
...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...pleasure of the heart by the pleasure of the eye. Certainly, virtue is like precious odours, most fragrant where they are incensed or crushed; for prosperity... | |
 | Francis Bacon, Richard Whately - 1857 - 578 pages
...more pleasing to have a lively work upon a sad2 and solemn ground, than to have a dark and melancholy work upon a lightsome ground : judge, therefore, of...pleasure of the heart by the pleasure of the eye. Certainly virtue is like precious odours, most fragrant where they are incensed3 or crushed ; for prosperity... | |
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