 | British prose literature - 1821 - 416 pages
...upon a sad and solemn ground, than to have a dark and melancholy work upon a lightsome ground : jndge, therefore of the pleasure of the heart by the pleasure...Certainly virtue is like precious odours, most fragrant where they are incensed, or crushed : for prosperity doth best discover vice, but adversity doth best... | |
 | 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... | |
 | Francis Bacon, Basil Montagu - 1825 - 550 pages
...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...prosperity doth best discover vice, but adversity doth best discover virtue. VI. OF SIMULATION AND DISSIMULATION.* Dissimulation is but a faint kind of policy,... | |
 | Francis Bacon - English prose literature - 1825 - 524 pages
...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...prosperity doth best discover vice, but adversity doth best discover virtue. VI. OF SIMULATION AND DISSIMULATION.* Dissimulation is but a faint kind of policy,... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1834 - 784 pages
...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...prosperity doth best discover vice, but adversity doth best discover virtue." The essays were immediately translated into French and Italian, and into Latin... | |
 | George Walker - English prose literature - 1825 - 668 pages
...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...prosperity doth best discover vice, but adversity doth best discover virtue. XVI. OP ATHEISM. I had rather believe all the fables in the Legend, and the Talnv'd,... | |
 | John Timbs - Aphorisms and apothegms - 1829 - 354 pages
...needleworks and embroideries, it is more pleasing to have a lively work upon a sad and solenm ground, than to have a dark and melancholy work upon a lightsome...Certainly virtue is like precious odours, most fragrant where they are incensed or crushed; for prosperity doth best discover vice, but adversity doth best... | |
 | Laconics - 1829 - 390 pages
...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...Certainly virtue is like precious odours, most fragrant where they are incensed or crushed; for prosperity doth best discover vice, but adversity doth best... | |
 | Thomas Curtis - Aeronautics - 1829 - 834 pages
...needleworks and mbnideriei, 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...pleasure of the heart by the pleasure of the eye. Bacon. Quality alone should only serve to make a shew in the embroidered part of the government j hut... | |
 | 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 else adulterate.... | |
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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. 
