 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 upon a lightsome ground: judge, therefore, of the pleasure of the heart by the pleasure of the eye....  Lord Macaulay's Essays ; And, Lays of Ancient Rome - Стр. 437авторы: Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1892 - Страниц: 924Полный просмотр - Подробнее о книге
 | 1821 - Страниц: 416
...favour. Yet even in the Old Testament, if you listen to David's harp, you shall hear as many herse-like airs as carols; and the pencil of the Holy Ghost hath...a dark and melancholy work upon a lightsome ground : jndge, therefore of the pleasure of the heart by the pleasure of the eye. Certainly virtue is like... | |
 | Thomas Curtis - 1829 - Страниц: 834
...embroidery, Buckled below fair knighthood's bending knee. Shakrpeare. We see in needleworks and mbnideriei, it is more pleasing to have a lively work upon a sad...pleasure of the heart by the pleasure of the eye. Bacon. Quality alone should only serve to make a shew in the embroidered part of the government j hut... | |
 | 1831 - Страниц: 548
...hearse-like airs, as carols. And the pencil of the Holy Ghost hath laboured more in describing the affliotion of Job than the felicities of Solomon. Prosperity...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 burned... | |
 | Basil Montagu - 1837 - Страниц: 382
...pursuit ; Know, prudent, cautious, self-control Is wisdom's root. 108 HOBBES'S THEORY OF LAUGHTER. II 7 " We see in needleworks and embroideries, it is more...pleasure of the heart by the pleasure of the eye." HOBBES'S THEORY OF LAUGHTER. Soon after I was called to the bar I happened to be in the criminal court... | |
 | 1838 - Страниц: 870
...without many fears and distastes; and adversity is not without comforts and hopes. We see in needle works and embroideries it is more pleasing to have a lively...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... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1840 - Страниц: 512
...harp you shall hear as many hearselike airs as carols ; and the pencil of the Holy Ghost hath labored more in describing the afflictions of Job than the...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... | |
 | 1855 - Страниц: 676
...hearse-like airs as carols; and the pencil of the Holy Ghost hath labored more in describing the affiiclious of Job than the felicities of Solomon, — Prosperity...pleasure of the eye. Certainly, virtue is like precio'us odors, more fragrant where they are incensed or crushed ; for prosperity doth best discover vice, but... | |
 | Henrietta Georgiana Chatterton (M. lady.) - 1840 - Страниц: 1020
...many fears and distastes; and adversity is not without comforts and hopes. We see in needleworks aoid embroideries, it is more pleasing to have a lively...pleasure of the heart by the pleasure of the eye. BACON . EVERYTHING seemed now really prosperous. Laura found her mother much disappointed, it was true,... | |
 | Miss Lambert (F.) - 1842 - Страниц: 300
...$cCHAPTER XV (funiuiG tUork, " The threaded steel Plies swiftly, and unfelt the task proceeds." COWPER. '' In needleworks and embroideries, it is more pleasing...dark and melancholy work upon a lightsome ground." BACON. HE reason for comprising the various subjects included in this chapter under one head, is, that... | |
 | Samuel Griswold Goodrich - 1844 - Страниц: 680
...the mathematics subtle, natural philosophy deep, morals grave, logic and rhetoric able to contend." " Prosperity is not without many fears and distastes,...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... | |
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