 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 - Pàgina 201821Visualització completa - Sobre aquest llibre
 | Robert Bridges - 1928 - 52 pàgines
...upon a sad and solemn ground, than to have a 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 that they cannot be printed in 44 short sections as free verse without damagand... | |
 | United States. Congress House - 1938 - 86 pàgines
...Bacon, in his essay Of Adversity, tells us: Certainly virtue is like precious odors, more fragrant when they are incensed or crushed. For prosperity doth...discover vice, but adversity doth best discover virtue. The adversity of the period discovered outstanding virtue in ANDREW JACKSON MONTAGUE. He did not fold... | |
 | Great Britain. Scottish Education Dept - 1896 - 642 pàgines
...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 beat discover vice, but adversity doth best... | |
 | 1909 - 378 pàgines
...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. Certainly virtue is like precious odors, most fragrant when they are incensed or crushed: for prosperity doth best discover* vice, but... | |
 | Alfred Pownall - 1864 - 112 pàgines
...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... | |
 | Robert Bridges - 870 pàgines
...upon a sad and solemn ground, than to have a dark and melancholy work upon a lightsome ground. Judg therefore of the pleasure of the Heart, by the pleasure of the Eye.' I assert of these passages that they cannot be printed in short sections as free verse without damag... | |
 | Lisa Jardine - 1974 - 300 pàgines
...welcome test of fortitude and divine mercy: Certainly virtue is like precious odours, more fragrant when they are incensed or crushed: for Prosperity doth...vice, but Adversity doth best discover virtue. [VI, 386] Bacon, like many of his contemporaries, collected in a notebook apophthegms which struck him in... | |
 | Philip Edwards - 1997 - 244 pàgines
...the Heart, by the Pleasure of the Eye. Certainly, Vertue is like pretious Odours, most fragrant, when they are incensed, or crushed: For Prosperity doth...best discover Vice; But Adversity doth best discover Vertue. 38 The centre of the essay is the strange legend that the sufferings of Prometheus were relieved... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1999 - 276 pàgines
...eye. Certainly virtue is like precious odours, most fragrant when they are incensed9 or crushed:10 for Prosperity doth best discover* vice, but Adversity doth best discover virtue. 6. OF SIMULATION AND DISSIMULATION Dissimulation* is but a faint kind of policy" or wisdom; for it... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 2000 - 470 pàgines
...Solemne Ground; then to have a Darke and Melancholy Worke, upon a Lightsome Ground: Judge therfore, of the Pleasure of the Heart, by the Pleasure of the Eye. Certainly, Vertue is like pretious Odours, most fragrant, when they are incensed, or crushed: For Prosperity 40... | |
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