 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 - Seite 137von Francis Turner Palgrave - 1858 - 246 SeitenVollansicht - Über dieses Buch
 | 1857 - 654 Seiten
...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... | |
 | 1857 - 584 Seiten
...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 eve. Certainly virtue is like precious odours : most fragrant where they are incensed or crushed ;... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1858 - 790 Seiten
...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. Certainly virtue is like precious odours, most fragrant when they are incensed or crushed : for Prosperity... | |
 | 1858 - 930 Seiten
...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... | |
 | Abraham Mills - 1858 - 594 Seiten
...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,...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... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1858 - 780 Seiten
...more pleasing to have a lively work upon a sad and solemn ground, than to have a dark and melancholy fye. Certainly virtue is like precious odours, most fragrant when they are incensed or crushed ; for... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1859 - 768 Seiten
...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. Certainly virtue is like precious odours, most fragrant when they are incensed or crushed; for prosperity... | |
 | Echoes - 1859 - 216 Seiten
...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... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1860 - 1008 Seiten
...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. Certainly virtue is like precious odours, most fragrant when they are incensed or crushed ; for prosperity... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1860 - 480 Seiten
...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 1 Ut a gramState rcrborum ad mediocrilatem dtscendamus. of the eye. Certainly virtue is like precious... | |
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