 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....  A System of Rhetoric - Стр. 138авторы: Charles William Bardeen - 1884 - Страниц: 673Полный просмотр - Подробнее о книге
 | Henry Southern, Sir Nicholas Harris Nicolas - 1821 - Страниц: 402
...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 pleasing to have a lively work upon . sad and solemn ground, than to have a dark and melancholy work upon a lightsome ground ; judge therefore... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1834 - Страниц: 784
...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...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... | |
 | George Walker - 1825 - Страниц: 668
...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...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... | |
 | Francis Bacon, Basil Montagu - 1825 - Страниц: 550
...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 heart by the pleasure of the eye. Certainly virtue is like precious odours, most fragrant when they are incensed, or crushed : for prosperity... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1825 - Страниц: 524
...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 heart by the pleasure of the eye. Certainly virtue is like precious odours, most fragrant when they are incensed, or crushed: for prosperity... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1825 - Страниц: 538
...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 heart by the pleasure of the eye. Certainly virtue is like precious odours, most fragrant when they are incensed, or crushed : for prosperity... | |
 | Laconics - 1829 - Страниц: 390
...grows weary of examining, and is tempted to consider all as equally fallacious. — Johnson. LXIX. We see in needleworks and embroideries, it is more...pleasure of the heart by the pleasure of the eye. Certainly virtue is like precious odours, most fragrant where they are incensed or crushed; for prosperity... | |
 | 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 ignorance... | |
 | John Timbs - 1829 - Страниц: 354
...grows weary of examining, and is tempted to consider all as equally fallacious. — Johnson. LXIX. We see in needleworks and embroideries, it is more pleasing to have a lively work upon a sad and solenm ground, than to have a dark and melancholy work upon a lightsome ground: judge, therefore, of... | |
 | 1831 - Страниц: 548
...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...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... | |
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