 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 work...  Laconics: Or, The Best Words of the Best Authors - Seite 12von John Timbs - 1829 - 360 SeitenVollansicht - Über dieses Buch
 | Basil Montagu, Hannah Mary Rathbone - 1845 - 396 Seiten
...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...the pleasure of the eye. Certainly virtue is like pleasant odors, most fragrant when they are incensed, or crushed ; for prosperity doth best discover... | |
 | George Lillie Craik - 1846 - 730 Seiten
...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...Certainly virtue is like precious odours, most fragrant when they are incensed or crushed ; for prosperity doth best discover vice, but adversity doth best... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1846 - 782 Seiten
...see in needleworks and embroideries it is more pleasing to have a lively work upon a sad and .solemn unseasonably. Dante never stays too long. No difference...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 - 778 Seiten
...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... | |
 | 1846 - 308 Seiten
...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 work upon...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 - 1846 - 732 Seiten
...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 work upon...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 - 1847 - 712 Seiten
...see in needle-works and embroideries, it is more pleasing to have a lively work upon a sad and solemn Ā ܀ 0 arc incensed or crushed : for prosperity doth best discover vice, but adversity doth best discover... | |
 | Robert Chambers - 1847 - 712 Seiten
...see in needle-works and embroideries, it is more pleasing to have a lively work upon a sad and solemn at all of the divine nature, except it proceed, not...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 Seiten
...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...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 Seiten
...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 work upon...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... | |
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