 Prosperity is the blessing of the Old Testament, adversity is the blessing of the New, which carrieth the greater benediction, and the clearer revelation of God's favour. Yet even in the Old Testament, if you listen to David's harp, you shall hear as...  Retrospective Review - Page 142edited by - 1821Full view - About this book
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - English literature - 1850 - 342 pages
...favour. Yet, even in the Old Testament, if you listen 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 decribing the afflictions of Job than the felicities of Solomon. Prosperity is not without many fears... | |
 | Francis Bacon - Biography - 1850 - 590 pages
...favour. Yet even in the Old Testament, if you listen 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 descrihing the afflictions of Job than the felicities of Solomon. Prosperity is not without many fears... | |
 | Ears - 1851 - 176 pages
...favour. Yet even in the Old Testament, if you listen to David's harp, you shall hear as many hearse-like airs as carols; and the pencil of the Holy Ghost hath...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 pages
...favour. Yet, even in the Old Testament, if you listen to David's harp, you shall hear as many hearse-like airs as carols ; and the pencil of the Holy Ghost...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 - English literature - 1851 - 602 pages
...favour. Yet even in the Old Testament, if you listen to David's harp, yon shall hear as many hearselike airs as carols ; and the pencil of the Holy Ghost...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... | |
 | 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
...Testament, if you listen 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...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... | |
 | English essays - 1852 - 780 pages
...favour. 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...Solomon. Prosperity is not without many fears and dislaMcs ; arid adversity is not without comforts and hopes. We see in needleworks and embroideries... | |
 | Edward H. Dixon - Medicine - 1855 - 468 pages
...David, 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...Solomon." Prosperity is not without many fears and distrusts, and adversity is not without comforts and hopes. We see in needle-work and embroidery, it... | |
 | Henry Reed - English literature - 1855 - 424 pages
...David's harp, you shall hear as many hearse-like airs as carols : and the pencils of the Holy Ghost have laboured more in describing the afflictions of Job than the felicities of Solomon. "f The moral use of tragic poetry consists then in such employment of poetic truth that the poet's... | |
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