 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 pleasing to have a lively work upon a sad and solemn ground, than to have a dark and melancholy work...  Shakspere Weighed in an Even Balance - Pàgina 14per Alfred Pownall - 1864 - 86 pàginesVisualització completa - Sobre aquest llibre
 | Francis Bacon, Richard Whately - 1858 - 620 pàgines
...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...is more pleasing to have a lively work upon a sad 3 and solemn ground, than to have a dark and melancholy work upon a lightsome ground : judge, therefore,... | |
 | Francis Turner Palgrave - 1858 - 294 pàgines
...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 - 878 pàgines
...carols ; and the pencil of the Holy Ghost has laboured more in describing the afflictions of Job, than the felicities of Solomon. Prosperity is not without...and adversity is not without comforts and hopes." All heathen religions, it has been often observed, have associated themselves with outward and material... | |
 | 1858 - 798 pàgines
...afflictions of Job than the felicities of Solomon. Prosperity," he continued, with marked emphasis, ' is not without many fears and distastes, and adversity is not without comforts and hopes.' " ' So in our needleworks and embroideries, Thomas, you see 'tis more pleasing to have a lively work... | |
 | 1858 - 770 pàgines
...afflictions of Job than the felicities of Solomon. Prosperity,' he continued, with marked emphasis, 'is not without many fears and distastes, and adversity is not without comforts and hopes.' "'So in our needleworks and embroideries, Thomas, you see 'tis more pleasing to have a lively work... | |
 | Francis Bacon (visct. St. Albans.) - 1859 - 176 pàgines
...carols : and the pencil of the Holy Ghost hath laboured more in describing the afflictions of Job than the felicities of Solomon. Prosperity is not without...melancholy work upon a lightsome ground : judge, therefore, ot' the pleasure of the heart by the pleasure of the eye. Certainly virtue is like precious odours,... | |
 | Augusta Browne - 1859 - 350 pàgines
...afflictions of Job than the felicities of Solomon. Prosperity is not without many fears and distrusts; and adversity is not without comforts and hopes. We see, in needleworks and embroideries, it is more pleasant to have a lively work upon a dark and solemn ground, than to have a dark and melancholy work... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1860 - 1008 pàgines
...carols ; and the pencil of the Holy Ghost hath laboured more in describing the afflictions of Job than the felicities of Solomon. Prosperity is not without...; and adversity is not without comforts and hopes. W« see in needleworks and embroideries it is more pleasing to have a lively work upon a sad and solemn... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1861 - 422 pàgines
...peneil of the Holy Ghost hath laboured more in deseribing the afflietions of Job than the felieities of Solomon. Prosperity is not without many fears and distastes ; and adversity is not without eomforts and hopes. We see in needleworks and embroideries it is more pleasing to have a lively work... | |
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