 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 pleasing to have a lively work upon a sad and solemn ground, than to have a dark and melancholy work...  The British Prose Writers - Стр. 201821Полный просмотр - Подробнее о книге
 | Francis Bacon (visct. St. Albans.) - 1851 - Страниц: 228
...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...vice, but adversity doth best discover virtue*. VI. OP SIMULATION AND DISSIMULATION. < . Dissimulation is but a faint kind of policy, or wisdom ; for it... | |
 | Edward Hughes - 1851 - Страниц: 362
...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...discover vice, but adversity doth best discover virtue." — Bacon. Now, my co-mates and brothers in exile, Hath not old custom made this life more sweet Than... | |
 | Abraham Mills - 1851 - Страниц: 594
...upon a sad and solemn ground, than to have a dark and melancholy work upon * lightsome ground ; judge, therefore, of the pleasure of the heart by the pleasure...discover vice, but adversity doth best discover virtue. FRIENDSHIP. It had been hard for him that spake it, to have put more truth and untruth together in... | |
 | Abraham Mills - 1851 - Страниц: 602
...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...discover vice, but adversity doth, best discover virtue. FRIENDSHIP. It had been hard for him that spake it, to have put more truth and untruth together in... | |
 | Ears - 1851 - Страниц: 176
...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...Certainly, virtue is like precious odours, most fragrant when they are incensed or crushed; for prosperity doth best discover vice, but adversity doth best... | |
 | 1851 - Страниц: 626
...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." What are these images of, viz., the " lively work ;" the " sad and solemn ground;" the "dark and melancholy... | |
 | Edward George E.L. Bulwer- Lytton (1st baron.) - 1852 - Страниц: 332
...body, and burst into tears. 160 161 CHAPTER XLIX. Virtue is like precious odours, most fragrant when they are incensed or crushed : for prosperity doth...discover vice, but adversity doth best discover virtue. — BACON. IT is somewhat remarkable, that while Talbot was bequeathing to Clarence, as the most valuable... | |
 | 1852 - Страниц: 780
...upon a sad and solemn ground, than to have a dark and melancholy work upon a lightsome ground. Judge l looked up, with the f ye. Certainly virtue is like precious odours, most fragrant when they are incensed or crashed ; for... | |
 | Robert Chambers - 1853 - Страниц: 716
...have a dark and melancholy rk upon a lightsome ground ; judge therefore of the pleasure of the heurt by the pleasure of the eye. Certainly, virtue is like...where they are incensed or crushed : for prosperity dotli best discover vice, but adversity doth best discover virtue, [Friendship,] It had been hard for... | |
 | 1853 - Страниц: 618
...wise sayings of Lord Bacon, that, " virtue is like precious odours, most fragrant when they are most incensed or crushed ; for prosperity doth best discover vice, but adversity doth best discover virtue." Dr. Cheever draws some very useful and important lessons from the processes of vegetation, as illustrative... | |
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