 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 upon a lightsome ground. Judge, therefore, of the pleasure of the heart by the pleasure of the eye....  Retrospective Review - Page 142edited by - 1821Full view - About this book
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - English literature - 1846 - 782 pages
...and hopes. We see in needleworks and embroideries it is more pleasing to have a lively work upon a enes never come* unseasonably. Dante never stays too...excite the honor of Bossuet. Nothing, then, can be when they are incensed or crushed ; for prosperity doth best discover vice, but adversity doth best... | |
 | George Lillie Craik - 1846 - 226 pages
...the world 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...Certainly virtue is like precious odours, most fragrant when they are incensed or crushed ; for prosperity doth best discover vice, but adversity doth best... | |
 | American literature - 1846 - 308 pages
...hopes. We see in needle-workers and imbroiderers, it is more pleasing to have a lively woik upon a sad and solemn ground, than to have a dark and melancholy...the pleasure of the eye. Certainly virtue is like pre cious odors, most fragrant when they are incensed or crushed; for Prosperity doth best discover... | |
 | George Lillie Craik - Philosophers - 1846 - 778 pages
...needle-works and embroideries it is more pleasing to have a lively work upon a sad and solemn ground, man to have a dark and melancholy work upon a lightsome...Certainly virtue is like precious odours, most fragrant when they are incensed or crushed; for prosperity doth best discover vice, but adversity doth best... | |
 | George Lillie Craik - 1846 - 732 pages
...the world We see in needle-works and emhroideries it is more pleasing to have a lively work upon a sad and solemn ground, than to have a dark and melancholy...ground. Judge therefore of the pleasure of the heart hy the pleasure of the eye. Certainly virtue is like precious odours, most fragrant when they are incensed... | |
 | Robert Chambers - English literature - 1847 - 712 pages
...and bopes. We see in needle-works and embroideries, it is more pleasing to have a lively work upon a her arc incensed or crushed : for prosperity doth best discover vice, but adversity doth best discover... | |
 | Robert Chambers - Authors, English - 1847 - 712 pages
...and hopee. We see in needle-works and embroideries, it is more pleasing to have a lively work upon a any character at all of the divine nature, except...pleasure in solitude, but out of a love and desire moet fragrant where they arc incensed or crushed : for prosperity doth best discover vice, but adversity... | |
 | Francis Bacon, Basil Montagu - 1848 - 594 pages
...and hopes. 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...pleasure of the eye. Certainly virtue is like precious odoure, most fragrant when they are incensed, or crushed : for prosperity doth best discover vice,... | |
 | Bengal council of educ - 1848 - 394 pages
...and hopes. We see in needle-works and embroideries, it is more pleasant to have a lively work upon a sad and solemn ground than to have a dark and melancholy...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... | |
 | Congregational union of England and Wales - 1848 - 684 pages
...and hopes. We see in needleworks and embroideries, it ie more pleasing to have a lively work upon a sad and solemn ground, than to have a dark and melancholy work npon a lightsome ground. Judge, therefore, of the pleasure of the heart by the pleasure of .the eye.... | |
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