 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 - Page 14by Alfred Pownall - 1864 - 86 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Edward Hughes - 1851 - 362 pages
...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... | |
 | Education - 1851 - 626 pages
...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 - English literature - 1852 - 764 pages
...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... | |
 | Francis Bacon - English essays - 1852 - 394 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 alightfome Ground : Judge, therefore, of the Pleafure of the Heart, by the Pleafure of the Eye. Certainly,... | |
 | Robert Chambers - Authors, English - 1853 - 716 pages
...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.... | |
 | 1853 - 792 pages
...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,... | |
 | Kenelm Henry Digby - 1854 - 626 pages
...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... | |
 | Edward H. Dixon - Medicine - 1855 - 468 pages
...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... | |
 | Harvey Buckland - Christian life - 1856 - 190 pages
...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... | |
 | Francis Bacon (visct. St. Albans.) - 1856 - 562 pages
...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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