 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
 | 1858 - 930 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 best discover vice, but adversity doth beet discover virtue." BACON. THE THREE STEPS. " The Rev. Rowland Hill once met a poor half-witted... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1858 - 780 pages
...the pleasure of the heart by the pleasure of the fye. Certainly virtue is like precious odours, most fragrant when they are incensed or crushed ; for prosperity doth best discover rice, but adversity doth best discover virtue." It is by the " Essays" that Bacon is best known to... | |
 | Frank Jenners Wilstach - 1916 - 540 pages
...hath rather dignity of presence than beauty of aspect. — BACON. Virtue is like precious odors, most fragrant when they are incensed, or crushed ; for...discover vice, but adversity doth best discover virtue. — IBID. Virtue is like health, the harmony of the whole man. — CARLISLE. Like other plants, virtue... | |
 | Robert Bridges - 1916 - 368 pages
...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 Ad-veriity doth best discover Virtue. DEEP in the shady sadness of a vale Far sunken from the healthy... | |
 | Roy Bennett Pace - 1917 - 536 pages
...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...discover vice, but adversity doth best discover virtue. VIII. — OF MARRIAGE AND SINGLE LIFE He that hath wife and children hath given hostages to fortune... | |
 | Roy Bennett Pace - 1918 - 986 pages
...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...discover vice, but adversity doth best discover virtue. VIII. — OF MARRIAGE AND SINGLE LIFE He that hath wife and children hath given hostages to fortune... | |
 | William Shirley Tomkinson - 1921 - 248 pages
...Bacon has some magnificent endings in the Essays. ' Certainly, Vertue is like pretious Odours, most fragrant, when they are incensed, or crushed : For Prosperity doth best discover Vice ; but Adversitie doth best discover Vertue/ There is a fine finality about this ; it reads as if it were... | |
 | 1923 - 346 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 prosperity...discover vice, but adversity doth best discover virtue. 13 In the first 100 sentences of his Essays1* Bacon employs 145 main, and 151 subordinate clauses (total... | |
 | Miles Mark Fisher - 1922 - 258 pages
...forgive and forget. " Certainly virtue is like precious odors, most fragrant when they are incensed and crushed; for prosperity doth best discover vice, but adversity doth best discover virtue." The Rev. Elijah Fisher was born to show what human powers, unaided by anything saving culture and goodness,... | |
 | Warner Taylor - 1923 - 524 pages
...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...discover vice; but adversity doth best discover virtue. OF TRUTH WHAT is truth?" said jesting Pilate, and would not stay .for an answer. Certainly there be... | |
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