 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 work upon a lightsome ground: judge therefore of the pleasure of the heart by the pleasure of the eye....  Alwyn Morton: his school and schoolfellows - Page 12by Alwyn Morton (fict.name.) - 1867Full view - About this book
 | Society for the liberation of religion from State patronage and control - 1868 - 230 pages
...nursed in hot unnatural air. It has flourished best in an ungenial soil, and under a bleak sky ; ' for prosperity doth best discover vice, but adversity doth best discover virtue.' It is not for those who believe in a divine original Christianity, no more than for those who think... | |
 | Edward George E.L. Bulwer- Lytton (1st baron.) - 1855 - 488 pages
...tears. CHAPTER XLIX. Virtue is like precions odours, most fragrant when they are incensed or crushed i for prosperity doth best discover vice, but adversity doth best discover virtue. — Bacou. IT is somewhat remarkable, that while Talbot was bequeathing to Clarence, as the most valuable... | |
 | Cortlandt Van Rensselaer - 1856 - 708 pages
...pleasures of the heart by the pleasures of the eye. Certainly virtue is like precious odours, most fragrant when they are incensed or crushed ; for prosperity...discover vice, but adversity doth best discover virtue. — Lord Bacon. THE DYING SCHOLAR, A POOR Sabbath-school girl was found by a lady in a hospital, very... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1856 - 406 pages
...the pleasure of the heart by the pleasure of the eye. Certainly, virtue is like precious odors, most fragrant when they are incensed, or crushed ; for...best discover vice, but adversity doth best discover virtue.2 1 Funereal airs. It must be remembered that many of the Psalms of David were written by him... | |
 | Francis Bacon (visct. St. Albans.) - 1856 - 562 pages
...the heart by the pleasnre of the eye. Certainly virtue is like precious odours, most fragrant where they are incensed/ or crushed; for prosperity doth...discover vice, but adversity doth best discover virtue. ANNOTATIONS. Some kinds of adversity are chiefly of the character of TRIALS, and others of DISCIPLINE.... | |
 | John Timbs - 1856 - 378 pages
...the heart by the pleasure of the eye. Certainly virtue is like precious odours, most fragrant where they are incensed or crushed : for prosperity doth...discover vice, but adversity doth best discover virtue. — /*rrf Bacon. I.XX. If parliament were to consider the sporting with reputation of as much importance... | |
 | 1856 - 702 pages
...pleasures of the heart by the pleasures 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 beat discover virtue. — Lord Bacon. THE DYING SCHOLAR. A POOR Sabbath-school girl was found by a... | |
 | Harvey Buckland - 1856 - 208 pages
...by the pleasures of the eye. Certainly virtue is like precious odours, most fragrant when they are crushed; for prosperity doth best discover vice, but adversity doth best discover virtue. Lord Bacon. STEADINESS OF TROUBLE AND SORROW. When a man recounts the various scenes and appearances... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1856 - 770 pages
...the pleasure of the heart by the pleasure of the fye. Certainly virtue is like precious odours, Bust fragrant when they are incensed or crushed; for prosperity doth best discover Tice, but adversity doth best discover virtue." It is by the " Essays" that Bacon is best known to... | |
 | John Webster, Alexander Dyce - 1857 - 424 pages
...they are chafd, &c.] Compare Lord Bacon's Essays: '' Certainly virtue is like precious odours, most fragrant when they are incensed or crushed; for prosperity...discover vice, but adversity doth best discover virtue." Of Adversity. Our author in The Duchess of Malfi has— "Man, like to cassia, is prov'd best, being... | |
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