 Solomon. 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...  The Passionate Pilgrim: Or Eros and Anteros - الصفحة 139بواسطة Francis Turner Palgrave - 1858 - عدد الصفحات: 246عرض كامل - لمحة عن هذا الكتاب
 | 1855 - عدد الصفحات: 676
...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...pleasure of the heart by the pleasure of the eye. Certainly, virtue is like precio'us odors, more fragrant where they are incensed or crushed ; for prosperity... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1840 - عدد الصفحات: 516
...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. Certainly virtue is like precious odors, most fragrant when they are incensed or crushed ; for prosperity... | |
 | Francis Bacon (visct. St. Albans.) - 1840 - عدد الصفحات: 244
...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...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... | |
 | Henrietta Georgiana Chatterton (M. lady.) - 1840 - عدد الصفحات: 1020
...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...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,... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1843 - عدد الصفحات: 520
...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. Certainly virtue is like precious odours, most fragrant when they are incensed or crushed; for prosperity... | |
 | عدد الصفحات: 636
...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 Certainly virtue is like precious odours, most fragrant where they are incensed or crushed ; for prosperity... | |
 | 1835 - عدد الصفحات: 638
...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...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 - عدد الصفحات: 336
...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...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... | |
 | Samuel Griswold Goodrich - 1844 - عدد الصفحات: 680
...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...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... | |
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