 | Francis Bacon - 1857 - 412 pages
...Adverfity is not without Comforts and Hopes. We fee in Needleworks and Embroideries, it is more pleafing to have a lively Work upon a Sad and Solemn Ground, than to have a dark and melancholy Work upon a lightfome Ground : Judge, therefore, of the Pleafure of the Heart, by the Pleafure of the Eye. Certainly,... | |
 | George Henry Townsend - 1857 - 140 pages
...state and society of man. MEASURE FOR MEASURE, Act i. Sc. ii. : Nature never lends 10. ON ADVERSITY : It is more pleasing to have a lively work upon a sad and solemn errand, than to have a dark and melancholy work upon a lightsome errand. HENRY IV. : Bright metals... | |
 | Henry Reed - 1857 - 242 pages
...David's harp, you shall hear as many hearse-like airs as carols : and the pencils of the Holy Ghost have laboured more in describing the afflictions of Job than the felicities of Solomon." The moral use of tragic poetry consists then in such employment of poetic truth that the poet's sad... | |
 | Francis Bacon, Richard Whately - 1857 - 578 pages
...listen to David's harp, you shall hear as many hearse-like airs as carols ; and the pencil of the Holy Ghost hath laboured more in describing the afflictions of Job than the felicities1 of Solomon. Prosperity is not without many fears and distastes ; and adversity is not without... | |
 | 1857 - 654 pages
...listen to David's harp, you shall hear as many hearse-like airs as carols ; and the pencil of the Holy Ghost hath laboured more in describing the afflictions of Job than the felici' ties of Solomon. Prosperity is not without, many fears and distastes ; and adversity is not... | |
 | 1858 - 878 pages
...David's harp, you shall hear as many hearse-like airs as carols ; and the pencil of the Holy Ghost has laboured more in describing the afflictions of Job,...fears and distastes ; and adversity is not without comforts and hopes." All heathen religions, it has been often observed, have associated themselves... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1858 - 780 pages
...you shall hear as many hearselike airs as carols; and the pencil of the Holy Ghost hath laboured mure in describing the afflictions of Job than the felicities...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... | |
 | Francis Turner Palgrave - 1858 - 294 pages
...benediction and the clearer evidence ' of God's favour. We see in needle-works and em' broideries, it is more pleasing to have a lively work upon ' a sad and solemn ground, than to have a dark and melan' choly work upon a lightsome ground. Judge therefore ' of the pleasure of the heart by the pleasure... | |
 | 1858 - 930 pages
...hearse-like airs as carols; and the pencil of the Holy Ghost hath laboured more in describing the afflction of Job than the felicities of Solomon. Prosperity...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... | |
 | John Baillie - 1858 - 424 pages
...one of his essays, " you shall hear as many hearse-like airs as carols ; and the pencil of the Holy Ghost hath laboured more in describing the afflictions of Job than the felicities of Solomon." Judson was now learning experimentally the same truth. " I have thought of late," he writes, " that... | |
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Prosperity is not without many fears and distastes ; and Adversity is not without comforts and hopes. 
