 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
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1840 - Страниц: 516
...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 odors, most fragrant when they are incensed or crushed ; for prosperity... | |
 | 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, but... | |
 | 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... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1843 - Страниц: 520
...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... | |
 | Samuel Griswold Goodrich - 1844 - Страниц: 336
...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 odors, most fragrant when they are incensed or crushed ; for prosperity... | |
 | 1835 - Страниц: 638
...secure, that to this very hour, I firmly believe that no one but a carpenter could ever have got me out." 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 crushed ; for prosperity doth... | |
 | Samuel Griswold Goodrich - 1844 - Страниц: 680
...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 odors, most fragrant when they are incensed or crushed ; for prosperity... | |
 | Страниц: 636
...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...the 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... | |
 | 1864 - Страниц: 704
...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... | |
 | Basil Montagu, Hannah Mary Rathbone - 1845 - Страниц: 396
...without many fears and distastes ; and adversity is not without comfort 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 pleasant odors, most fragrant when they are incensed, or crushed ; for prosperity... | |
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