 ... 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 upon a lightsome ground. Judge, therefore, of the...  London Saturday Journal... - Page 231839Full view - About this book
 | Francis Bacon (visct. St. Albans.) - 1818 - 310 pages
...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 doth best discover vice, but Adversity doth best discover virtue. <Df Simulation antt... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1818 - 312 pages
...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 doth best discover vice, but Adversity doth best discover virtue. (!M Simulation attlr... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1819 - 580 pages
...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 doth best discover vice, but adversity doth best discover virtue. VI. OF SIMULATION... | |
 | 1824 - 706 pages
...Metastasio. " In bona cur quisqilam tertius ista venit ? " Let us observe Bacon working out the metaphor. Certainly virtue is like precious odours, most fragrant when they are incensed (he uses the word in an obsolete sense — igne coactum) or crushed. — Eiiayi. The compassionate... | |
 | George Walker - 1825 - 668 pages
...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 doth best discover vice, but adversity doth best discover virtue. XVI. OP ATHEISM.... | |
 | Francis Bacon, Basil Montagu - 1825 - 550 pages
...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 doth best discover vice, but adversity doth best discover virtue. VI. OF SIMULATION... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1825 - 524 pages
...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 doth best discover vice, but adversity doth best discover virtue. VI. OF SIMULATION... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1834 - 784 pages
...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 doth best discover vice, but adversity doth best discover virtue." The essays were... | |
 | John Webster, Alexander Dyce - 1830 - 398 pages
...4to. of 1 612 " street." t Perfumes, the more they are chaf'd, &c.] Compare Lord Bacon's Eisayt; " Certainly virtue is like precious odours, most fragrant when they are incensed or crushed ; for prosperity Their pleasing scents ; and so affliction Expresseth virtue fully, whether true, Or... | |
 | John Webster, Alexander Dyce - 1830 - 384 pages
...4to. of 1 612 " sweet." t Perfumes, the mitre they are chaf'd, &c.] Compare Lord Bacon's Essayi; " Certainly virtue is like precious odours, most fragrant when they are incensed or crushed ; for prosperity Their pleasing scents ; and so affliction Expresseth virtue fully, whether true, Or... | |
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