 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1852 - 764 Seiten
...adversity is not without comforts and hopes. We see in needleworks and embroideries it is more pleasing lo have a lively work upon a sad and solemn ground, than...crushed ; for prosperity doth best discover vice, but adversity doth best discover virtue." It is by the " Essays" that Bacon is best known to the multitude.... | |
 | 1852 - 780 Seiten
...many fears and dislaMcs ; arid adversity is not without comforts and hopes. We see in needleworks and in the arts, which, in the following generation, led...it should seem that they still looked up, with the f ye. Certainly virtue is like precious odours, most fragrant when they are incensed or crashed ; for... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1852 - 394 Seiten
...Adverfity is not without Comforts and Hopes. We fee in Needleworks and Embroideries, it is more pleafing to have a lively Work, upon a Sad and Solemn Ground, than to have a dark and melancholy Work, upon alightfome Ground : Judge, therefore, of the Pleafure of the Heart, by the Pleafure of the Eye. Certainly,... | |
 | 1852 - 978 Seiten
...the following sentences, viz.: — * Longfellow's "Hyperion." " Virtue is like precious odours, mottt fragrant when they are incensed or crushed ; for prosperity doth best discover vice, hut adversity doth best discover virtue." — Bacons JSssay," Of Adversity'-' " The joys of parents... | |
 | Francis Bacon (visct. St. Albans.) - 1853 - 176 Seiten
...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...Certainly virtue is like precious odours, most fragrant where they are incensed, or crushed ; for prosperity doth best discover vice, but adversity doth best... | |
 | 1853 - 792 Seiten
...cunning judges of pictorial effect as the father of English philosophy, who says, " as in needleworks and embroideries it is more pleasing to have a lively...dark and melancholy work upon a lightsome ground, so we may judge the pleasure of the heart by the pleasure of the eye." So, for the mere picturesque,... | |
 | Robert Chambers - 1853 - 716 Seiten
...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...solemn ground, than to have a dark and melancholy rk upon a lightsome ground ; judge therefore of the pleasure of the heurt by the pleasure of the eye.... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1854 - 894 Seiten
...many fears and distastes ; and adversity is not without comforts and hopes. We see in needleworks and by the hand. Also some steps up to it, and some fine...may call a bathing pool, it may admit much curiosity but adversity doth best discover virtue. VI. OF SIMULATION AND DISSIMULATION. Dissimulation is but... | |
 | Kenelm Henry Digby - 1854 - 626 Seiten
...inspire for that reason the greater pleasure ; for, as a great author says, " We see in needleworks and embroideries it is more pleasing to have a lively...a dark and melancholy work upon a lightsome ground ;" or, as Hazlitt says in his charming essay upon Merry England, " I do not see how there can be high... | |
 | Robert Bridges - 1928 - 52 Seiten
...the Creator and the reliefe of mans estate' Orageinthis: 'we .fee in Needleworks and Embroyderies, it is more pleasing to have a lively work upon a sad...dark and melancholy work upon a lightsome ground. ]udg therefore of the pleasure of the Heart, by the pleasure of the Eye.' I assert of these passages... | |
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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. 
