 | 1849 - 614 oldal
...harp, you shall hear as many hearse-like airs as carols; and the pencil of the Holy Ghost hath labored more in describing the afflictions of Job than the felicities of Solomon." For more reasons than Lord Bacon could give, adversity is better for the soul than prosperity, for... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1850 - 892 oldal
...airs as carols : and the pencil of the Holy Gho*i hath laboured more in describing the afflictions ol Job than the felicities of Solomon. Prosperity is...not without many fears and distastes; and adversity in not without comforts and hopes. We see in needleworks and embroideries, it is more pleasing to bar;... | |
 | Abraham Mills - 1851 - 594 oldal
...to David's harp, you shall hear as many hearselike airs as carols ; and the pencil of the Holy Ghost hath laboured more in describing the afflictions of...ground, than to have a dark and melancholy work upon * lightsome ground ; judge, therefore, of the pleasure of the heart by the pleasure of the eye. Certainly... | |
 | Ears - 1851 - 176 oldal
...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...fears and distastes ; and adversity is not without comfort and hopes. We see in needleworks and embroideries, it is more pleasing to have a lively work... | |
 | Edward Hughes - 1851 - 362 oldal
...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...the felicities of Solomon. Prosperity is not without fears and distastes; and «dX versity is not/without comforts and hopes. We see in needle-works and... | |
 | Abraham Mills - 1851 - 602 oldal
...to David's harp, yon shall hear as many hearselike airs as carols ; and the pencil of the Holy Ghost hath laboured more in describing the afflictions of...than the felicities of Solomon. Prosperity is not w ithout many fears and distastes ; and adversity is not without comforts and hopes. We see in needle-works... | |
 | 1851 - 626 oldal
...meaning of the italics. 22. " Prosperity is not without many fears and distastes ; and adverrity it not without comforts and hopes. We see in needle-works and embroideries, it is more pleasant to have a lively work upon a sad and solemn ground than to have a dark and melancholy work... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1852 - 764 oldal
...to David's harp you shall hear as many hearselike airs as carols; and thé pencil of the Holy Ghost hath laboured more in describing the afflictions of...in needleworks and embroideries it is more pleasing lo have a lively work upon a sad and solemn ground, than to have a dark and melancholy work upon a... | |
 | 1852 - 780 oldal
...to David's harp you shall hear as many hearselike airs as carols; and the pencil of the Holy Ghost as plays, his works are absurd : considered as choruses, they are above all dislaMcs ; arid adversity is not without comforts and hopes. We see in needleworks and embroideries... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1852 - 394 oldal
...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 alightfome Ground : Judge, therefore, of the Pleafure of the Heart, by the Pleafure of the Eye. Certainly,... | |
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Yet even in the Old Testament, if you listen to David's harp, you shall hear as many hearselike airs as carols ; and the pencil of the Holy Ghost hath laboured more in describing the afflictions of Job than the felicities of Solomon. 
