 We see in needle-works 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 - 1858 - 744 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Echoes - 1859 - 216 pages
...shall hear as many hearselike airs as carols ; and the pencil of the Holy Ghost hath laboured more in describing the afflictions of Job than the felicities...of the pleasure of the heart by the pleasure of the eye. Certainly virtue is like precious odours, most fragrant where they are incensed, or crushed ;... | |
 | Francis Bacon (visct. St. Albans.) - 1859 - 176 pages
...you shall hear as many herselike airs as carols : and the pencil of the Holy Ghost hath laboured more in describing the afflictions of Job than the felicities...melancholy work upon a lightsome ground : judge, therefore, ot' the pleasure of the heart by the pleasure of the eye. Certainly virtue is like precious odours,... | |
 | Francis Bacon - English essays - 1908 - 412 pages
...hopes. We see in needle-works and embroideries, it is more pleasing to have a lively work upon a sad2 and solemn ground, than to have a dark and melancholy...of the pleasure of the heart by the pleasure of the eye. Certainly virtue is like precious odours, most fragrant when they are incensed3 or crushed : for... | |
 | Francis Bacon - Education - 1909 - 374 pages
...carols ; and the pencil of the Holy Ghost hath labored more in describing the afflictions of Job that the felicities of Solomon. Prosperity is not without...of the pleasure of the heart by the pleasure of the eye. Certainly virtue is like precious odors, most fragrant when they are incensed or crushed: for... | |
 | Alexander Malcolm Williams - English language - 1909 - 454 pages
...wholly neutral kind are found ; they do not produce any particular effect, eg, this from Bacon : " Prosperity is not without many fears and distastes...of the pleasure of the heart by the pleasure of the eye ". The same may be said of his metaphor, " It is heaven upon earth to have a man's mind move in... | |
 | John Matthews Manly - English prose literature - 1909 - 578 pages
...Holy Ghost hath laboured more in describing the afflictions of Job than the felicities of Salomon. Prosperity is not without many fears and distastes;...of the 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... | |
 | Francis Bacon, John Milton, Sir Thomas Browne - 1909 - 348 pages
...you shall hear as many hearse-like airs as carols; and the pencil of the Holy Ghost hath labored more in describing the afflictions of Job than the felicities...embroideries, it is 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... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1909 - 368 pages
...carols; and the pencil of the Holy Ghost hath labored more in describing the afflictions of Job that the felicities of Solomon. Prosperity is not without...is more pleasing to have a lively work upon a sad 8 and solemn ground, than to have a dark and melancholy work upon a lightsome ground: judge therefore... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1909 - 364 pages
...hopes. We see in needle-works and embroideries, it is more pleasing to have a lively work upon a sad2 and solemn ground, than to have a dark and melancholy...of the pleasure of the heart by the pleasure of the eye. Certainly virtue is like precious odors, most fragrant when they are incensed or crushed: for... | |
 | Robert Maynard Leonard - English literature - 1912 - 788 pages
...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 the 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... | |
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