 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....  The Ladies' Companion - Σελίδα 961835Πλήρης προβολή - Σχετικά με αυτό το βιβλίο
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1913 - 824 σελίδες
...Prosperity is not without many fears and distastes ; and adversity is not without comforts and hopes. We see in needle-works and embroideries it is more...like precious odours, most fragrant when they are incensed or crushed ; for prosperity doth best discover vice, but adversity doth best discover virtue.'... | |
 | William Henry Hudson - 1914 - 362 σελίδες
...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...like precious odours, most fragrant when they are incensed, or crushed : for prosperity doth best discover vice, but adversity doth best discover virtue.... | |
 | Ernest Rhys - 1915 - 518 σελίδες
...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...like precious odours, most fragrant when they are incensed or crushed : for prosperity doth best discover vice ; but adversity doth best discover virtue.... | |
 | William Frank Bryan, Ronald Salmon Crane - 1916 - 576 σελίδες
...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...like precious odours, most fragrant when they are incensed or crushed : for prosperity doth best discover vice; but adversity doth best discover virtue.... | |
 | Robert Bridges - 1916 - 368 σελίδες
...Prosperity is not without many fears and distastes ; and Adversity is not without comforts and hopes. We see in Needle-works and Embroideries, it is more...like precious Odours, most fragrant when they are incensed or crushed : For Prosperity doth best discover Vice, but Ad-veriity doth best discover Virtue.... | |
 | Franklyn Bliss Snyder, Robert Grant Martin - 1916 - 964 σελίδες
...Prosperity is not without many fears and distastes; and adversity is not without comforts and hopes. [50 heart by the pleasure of the eye. Certainly virtue is like precious odors, most ico fragrant when... | |
 | Roy Bennett Pace - 1917 - 536 σελίδες
...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...solemn ground, than to have a dark and melancholy 35 work upon a lightsome ground ; judge therefore of the pleasure of the heart by the pleasure of the... | |
 | Roy Bennett Pace - 1918 - 986 σελίδες
...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...solemn ground, than to have a dark and melancholy 35 work upon a lightsome ground ; judge therefore of the pleasure of the heart by the pleasure of the... | |
 | Roy Bennett Pace - 1918 - 428 σελίδες
...over joy in the Old Testament, and one which by an unusual figure of speech suggests that we " judge of the pleasure of the heart by the pleasure of the eye." The essay Of Studies is really a collection of texts, upon any one of which an extended discourse might... | |
 | 1922 - 876 σελίδες
...relief of man's Estate. Or again this : We see in Needleworks and Embroideries, it is more pleasant to have a lively work upon a sad and solemn ground,...pleasure of the Heart, by the pleasure of the Eye. I assert of these passages that they cannot be printed in short sections as free verse without damage... | |
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