 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 14von Alfred Pownall - 1864 - 86 SeitenVollansicht - Über dieses Buch
 | Edward Hughes - 1856 - 474 Seiten
...not without comforts and hopes. We see in needle-works and emhroideries, it is more pleasing to have lively work upon a sad and solemn ground, than to...ground ; judge, therefore, of the pleasure of the heart hy the pleasure of the eye. Certainly, virtue is like precious odours, most fragrant where they are... | |
 | 1856 - 702 Seiten
...hath laboured more in describing the afflictions of Job, than the felicities of Solomon. Prosperity is not without comforts and hopes. We see in needleworks...embroideries, it is more pleasing to have a lively work upon a dark and solemn ground, than to have a dark and melancholy work upon a lightsome ground ; judge therefore... | |
 | Cortlandt Van Rensselaer - 1856 - 708 Seiten
...hath laboured more in describing the afflictions of Job, than the felicities of Solomon. Prosperity is not without comforts and hopes. We see in needleworks...embroideries, it is more pleasing to have a lively work upon a dark and solemn ground, than to have a dark and melancholy work upon a lightsome ground ; judge therefore... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1856 - 770 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...and distastes; and adversity is not without comforts anil hopes. We see in needleworks and emtr iilenes it is more pleaMng to have a lively work apon a... | |
 | 1857 - 240 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...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... | |
 | Francis Bacon, Richard Whately - 1857 - 578 Seiten
...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...embroideries, it is more pleasing to have a lively work upon a sad2 and solemn ground, than to have a dark and melancholy work upon a lightsome ground : judge, therefore,... | |
 | William Henry Smith - 1857 - 188 Seiten
...afflictions of Job, than the felicities of Solomon. Prosperity is not without many fears and distates, and adversity is not without comforts and hopes. We...embroideries, it is more pleasing to have a lively work on a sad and solemn ground, than to have a dark and melancholy work upon a lightsome ground. Judge... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1857 - 412 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 a lightfome Ground : Judge, therefore, of the Pleafure of the Heart, by the Pleafure of the Eye. Certainly,... | |
 | William Henry Smith - 1857 - 190 Seiten
...comforts and hopes. We see in needleworks and embroideries, it is more pleasing to have a lively work on a sad and solemn ground, than to have a dark and melancholy...work upon a lightsome ground. Judge therefore of the pleasures of the heart by the pleasure of the eye. Certainly virtue is like precious odours, most fragrant... | |
 | George Henry Townsend - 1857 - 140 Seiten
...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... | |
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