 ... 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 upon a lightsome ground. Judge, therefore, of the...  London Saturday Journal... - Side 231839Fuld visning - Om denne bog
 | Francis Bacon - 1864 - 468 sider
...pleasure of the heart by the pleasure 1 Ut a gram&tate verborum ad mediocritatem descendamus. of the eye. Certainly virtue is like precious odours, most fragrant when they are incensed or crushed : for Prosperity doth best discover vice, but Adversity doth best discover virtue. VI. OF SIMULATION... | |
 | Thomas Budd Shaw, sir William Smith - 1864 - 554 sider
...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 when they are incensed, or crushed : for prosperity doth best discover vice, but adversity doth best <}iscover virtue. 61. OP CUNNING.... | |
 | Thomas Babington baron Macaulay - 1866 - 734 sider
...«pon 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 when they are incensed or crushed ; for prosperity doth best discover vice, but adversity doth best discover virtue." It is by the Essays... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1866 - 758 sider
...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 when they are incensed or crushed; for prosperity doth best discover vice, but adversity doth best discover virtue." It is by the Essays... | |
 | Words, Horatius Bonar - 1866 - 370 sider
...desire, or else contentment, as though thou had gotten it. BACON. BACON (LORD). BDRN 1561-DIED 1626. 1. Virtue is like precious odours, most fragrant when they are incensed or crushed ; for prosperity doth best discover vice, but adversity doth best discover virtue. 2. The Scripture... | |
 | William Henry Davenport Adams - 1867 - 370 sider
...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 when they are incensed or crushed ; for prosperity doth best discover vice, but adversity doth best discover virtue." And the adversity... | |
 | John Bartlett - 1868 - 828 sider
...Davy, Salmonia, Eighth Day. None knew thee but to love thee. — Halleck, On tlu Death of Drake. a Virtue is like precious odours, most fragrant when they are incensed or crushed. — Bacon, Of Adversity. WILLIAM WORDSWORTH.1 1770-1850. And homeless near a thousand homes I stood,... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1871 - 732 sider
...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 when they are incensed or crushed ; for prosperity doth best discover vice, but adversity doth best discover virtue." It is by the Essays... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1873 - 728 sider
...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 when they are incensed or crushed ; for prosperity doth best discover vice, but adversity doth best discover virtue." It is by the Essays... | |
 | English literature - 1874 - 274 sider
...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 when they are incensed or crushed; for prosperity doth best discover vice, but adversity doth best discover virtue. LORD HERBERT. Lonn... | |
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