 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....  The Southern literary messenger - 195. lappuse1838Pilnskats - Par šo grāmatu
 | 1853 - 792 lapas
...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 lapas
...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 lapas
...without many fears and distastes ; and adversity is not without comforts and hopes. We see in needleworks day by the hand. Also some steps up to it, and some...may call a bathing pool, it may admit much curiosity odours, most fragrant when they are incensed or crushed ; for prosperity doth best discover vice, but... | |
 | Kenelm Henry Digby - 1854 - 626 lapas
...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... | |
 | Edward H. Dixon - 1855 - 468 lapas
...and distrusts, and adversity is not without comforts and hopes. We see in needle-work and embroidery, it is more pleasing to have a lively work upon a sad...solemn ground, than to have a dark and melancholy work on a lightsome ground. " Certainly, virtue is like precious odors, the more precious when incensed... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1856 - 406 lapas
...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...precious odors, most fragrant when they are incensed, 01 crushed ; for prosperity doth best discover vice ; but adversity doth best discover virtue." The... | |
 | John Timbs - 1856 - 378 lapas
...examining, and is tempted to consider all as equally fallacious. — Johnson. I.XIX. We see in needleworks and embroideries, it is more pleasing to have a lively...pleasure of the eye. Certainly virtue is like precious odours, most fragrant where they are incensed or crushed : for prosperity doth best discover vice,... | |
 | Harvey Buckland - 1856 - 190 lapas
...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...upon a lightsome ground: judge, therefore, of the pleasures of the heart by the pleasures of the eye. Certainly virtue is like precious odours, most... | |
 | Edward Hughes - 1856 - 474 lapas
...not without comforts and hopes. We see in needle-works and emhroideries, it is more pleasing to have lively work upon a sad and solemn ground, than to...ground ; judge, therefore, of the pleasure of the heart hy the pleasure of the eye. Certainly, virtue is like precious odours, most fragrant where they are... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1856 - 770 lapas
...comforts anil hopes. We see in needleworks and emtr iilenes it is more pleaMng to have a lively work apon a sad and solemn ground, than to have a dark and melancholy work upon a lightsome »round. Judge therefore of the pleasure of the heart by the pleasure of the fye. Certainly virtue... | |
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