 | Great Britain. Scottish Education Dept - 1896 - 642 pages
...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...they are incensed or crushed ; for prosperity doth beat discover vice, but adversity doth best discover virtue." BACON. (4) So have I seen a lark rising... | |
 | 1909 - 378 pages
...and adversity is not without comforts and hopes. We see in needle-works and embroideries, it is more pleasing to have a lively work upon a sad* and solemn...pleasure of the eye. Certainly virtue is like precious odors, most fragrant when they are incensed or crushed: for prosperity doth best discover* vice, but... | |
 | Alfred Pownall - 1864 - 112 pages
...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...best discover vice, but adversity doth best discover virtue.—Bacon's Essays. Amid the thorns and"briars of this working-day world "' there is nothing... | |
 | Robert Bridges - 870 pages
...and the reliefe of mans estate.' Orageinthis: 'Wf see in Needle'works and Embroyderies, it is more pleasing to have a lively work upon a sad and solemn...dark and melancholy work upon a lightsome ground. Judg therefore of the pleasure of the Heart, by the pleasure of the Eye.' I assert of these passages... | |
 | Lisa Jardine - 1974 - 300 pages
...regarded as a welcome test of fortitude and divine mercy: Certainly virtue is like precious odours, more fragrant when they are incensed or crushed: for Prosperity...discover vice, but Adversity doth best discover virtue. [VI, 386] Bacon, like many of his contemporaries, collected in a notebook apophthegms which struck... | |
 | Philip Edwards - 1997 - 244 pages
...pleasing, to have a Lively Worke, upon a Sad and Solemne Ground; then to have a Darke and Melancholy Worke, upon a Lightsome Ground: Judge therefore, of the Pleasure...the Heart, by the Pleasure of the Eye. Certainly, Vertue is like pretious Odours, most fragrant, when they are incensed, or crushed: For Prosperity doth... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1999 - 276 pages
...eye. Certainly virtue is like precious odours, most fragrant when they are incensed9 or crushed:10 for Prosperity doth best discover* vice, but Adversity doth best discover virtue. 6. OF SIMULATION AND DISSIMULATION Dissimulation* is but a faint kind of policy" or wisdom; for it... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 2000 - 470 pages
...Solemne Ground; then to have a Darke and Melancholy Worke, upon a Lightsome Ground: Judge therfore, of the Pleasure of the Heart, by the Pleasure of the Eye. Certainly, Vertue is like pretious Odours, most fragrant, when they are incensed, or crushed: For Prosperity 40... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 2002 - 868 pages
...lively work0 upon a sad0 and solemn ground,0 than to have a dark and melancholy work upon a lightsome0 ground: judge therefore of the pleasure of the heart...like precious odours, most fragrant when they are incensed0 or crushed:0 for Prosperity doth best discover0 vice, but Adversity doth best discover virtue.... | |
 | John Carrington - 2003 - 344 pages
...touched by a worldly-wise cynicism, which others would call realism. There are indeed such moments: 'Virtue is like precious odours, most fragrant when they are incensed or crushed' ['Of Adversity']; 'For he that cannot possibly mend his own case will do what he can to impair another's'... | |
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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. 
