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" 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 - Seite 14
von Alfred Pownall - 1864 - 86 Seiten
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Select English poetry, with notes by E. Hughes

Edward Hughes - 1851 - 362 Seiten
...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 embroideries, it is more pleasing to have lively work upon a sad and solemn ground, than to have a dark and melancholy work upon a lightsome...
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General Report on Public Instruction in the Bengal Presidency

1851 - 628 Seiten
...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...
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Essays, Critical and Miscellaneous

Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1852 - 764 Seiten
...carols; and thé pencil of the Holy Ghost hath laboured more in describing the afflictions of Job than the felicities of Solomon. Prosperity is not without...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...
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The Essays Or Counsels, Civil and Moral ; And, Wisdom of the Ancients

Francis Bacon - 1852 - 394 Seiten
...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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Cyclopaedia of English Literature: A Selection of the Choicest Productions ...

Robert Chambers - 1853 - 716 Seiten
...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...solemn ground, than to have a dark and melancholy rk upon a lightsome ground ; judge therefore of the pleasure of the heurt by the pleasure of the eye....
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Macphail's Edinburgh ecclesiastical journal and literary review, Bände 13-14

1853 - 792 Seiten
...taste of such cunning judges of pictorial effect as the father of English philosophy, who says, " as in needleworks and embroideries it is more pleasing...dark and melancholy work upon a lightsome ground, so we may judge the pleasure of the heart by the pleasure of the eye." So, for the mere picturesque,...
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Compitum: Or, The Meeting of the Ways at the Catholic Church, Bücher 7

Kenelm Henry Digby - 1854 - 626 Seiten
...present us with may even inspire for that reason the greater pleasure ; for, as a great author says, " We see in needleworks and embroideries it is more...a dark and melancholy work upon a lightsome ground ;" or, as Hazlitt says in his charming essay upon Merry England, " I do not see how there can be high...
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Scenes in the Practice of a New York Surgeon, Band 3

Edward H. Dixon - 1855 - 468 Seiten
...and distrusts, and adversity is not without comforts and hopes. We see in needle-work and embroidery, it is more pleasing to have a lively work upon a sad...solemn ground, than to have a dark and melancholy work on a lightsome ground. " Certainly, virtue is like precious odors, the more precious when incensed...
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A Book for Spare Moments: The Urn and the Page

Harvey Buckland - 1856 - 190 Seiten
...carols; and the pencil of the holy Spirit hath laboured more in describing the afflictions of Job than the felicities of Solomon. Prosperity is not without...upon a lightsome ground: judge, therefore, of the pleasures of the heart by the pleasures of the eye. Certainly virtue is like precious odours, most...
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Bacon's essays, with annotations by R. Whately

Francis Bacon (visct. St. Albans.) - 1856 - 564 Seiten
...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...embroideries, it is more pleasing to have a lively work upon a sad5 and solemn ground, than to have a dark and melancholy work upon a lightsome ground : judge, therefore,...
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