 | Robert Chambers - 1850 - 710 pagina’s
...than the felicities of Solomon. I'roimcrity is not without many fears and distastes ; and adversitv wers and a kirtle, Embroidcr'd all pleasure of the heart by the pleasure of the eye. C*rtainly, virtue is like precious odours, most fragrant... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1850 - 892 pagina’s
...not without comforts and hopes. We see in needleworks and embroideries, it is more pleasing to bar; a lively work upon a sad and solemn ground, than to...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, piost fragrant... | |
 | Abraham Mills - 1851 - 594 pagina’s
...PROSPERITY AND ADVERSITY. The virtue of prosperity is temperance ; the virtue of adversity is fortitude. Prosperity is the blessing of the Old Testament ;...ground, than to have a dark and melancholy work upon * lightsome ground ; judge, therefore, of the pleasure of the heart by the pleasure of the eye. Certainly... | |
 | Abraham Mills - 1851 - 602 pagina’s
...more in describing the afflictions of Job than the felicities of Solomon. Prosperity is not w ithout many fears and distastes ; and adversity is not without...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... | |
 | Ears - 1851 - 176 pagina’s
...Solomon. Prosperity is not without many fears and distastes ; and adversity is not without comfort and hopes. We see in needleworks and embroideries,...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... | |
 | 1851 - 626 pagina’s
...adverrity it not without comforts and hopes. We see in needle-works and embroideries, it is more pleasant to have a lively work upon a sad and solemn ground...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... | |
 | Edward Hughes - 1851 - 362 pagina’s
...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... | |
 | 1852 - 780 pagina’s
...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 - 1852 - 764 pagina’s
...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 pagina’s
...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... | |
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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... 
