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" 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.... "
Laconics; or, The best words of the best authors [ed. by J. Timbs]. 1st Amer. ed - Página 14
por Laconics - 1829
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Literary Essays: Contributed to the Edinburgh Review

Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1913 - 824 páginas
...Prosperity is not without many fears and distastes ; and adversity is not without comforts and hopes. We see in needle-works and embroideries it is more...Certainly virtue is like precious odours, most fragrant when they are incensed or crushed ; for prosperity doth best discover vice, but adversity doth best...
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Representative passages from English literature, chosen and arranged by W.H ...

William Henry Hudson - 1914 - 362 páginas
...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...Certainly virtue is like precious odours, most fragrant when they are incensed, or crushed : for prosperity doth best discover vice, but adversity doth best...
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A Century of English Essays: An Anthology Ranging from Caxton to R. L ...

Ernest Rhys - 1915 - 518 páginas
...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...Certainly virtue is like precious odours, most fragrant when they are incensed or crushed : for prosperity doth best discover vice ; but adversity doth best...
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The Spirit of Man: An Anthology in English & French from the Philosophers ...

Robert Bridges - 1916 - 368 páginas
...Prosperity is not without many fears and distastes ; and Adversity is not without comforts and hopes. We see in Needle-works and Embroideries, it is more...Certainly Virtue is like precious Odours, most fragrant when they are incensed or crushed : For Prosperity doth best discover Vice, but Ad-veriity doth best...
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The English Familiar Essay: Representative Texts

William Frank Bryan, Ronald Salmon Crane - 1916 - 576 páginas
...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...Certainly virtue is like precious odours, most fragrant when they are incensed or crushed : for prosperity doth best discover vice; but adversity doth best...
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A Book of English Literature, Selected and Ed, Volumen1

Franklyn Bliss Snyder, Robert Grant Martin - 1916 - 964 páginas
...Prosperity is not without many fears and distastes; and adversity is not without comforts and hopes. [50 heart by the pleasure of the eye. Certainly virtue is like precious odors, most ico fragrant when...
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Readings in English Literature

Roy Bennett Pace - 1917 - 536 páginas
...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...solemn ground, than to have a dark and melancholy 35 work upon a lightsome ground ; judge therefore of the pleasure of the heart by the pleasure of the...
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English Literature

Roy Bennett Pace - 1918 - 986 páginas
...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...solemn ground, than to have a dark and melancholy 35 work upon a lightsome ground ; judge therefore of the pleasure of the heart by the pleasure of the...
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English Literature

Roy Bennett Pace - 1918 - 428 páginas
...over joy in the Old Testament, and one which by an unusual figure of speech suggests that we " judge of the pleasure of the heart by the pleasure of the eye." The essay Of Studies is really a collection of texts, upon any one of which an extended discourse might...
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The North American Review, Volumen216

1922 - 876 páginas
...relief of man's Estate. Or again this : We see in Needleworks and Embroideries, it is more pleasant to have a lively work upon a sad and solemn ground,...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 damage...
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