 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...  Critical and Miscellaneous Essays - Стр. 489авторы: Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1840Полный просмотр - Подробнее о книге
 | J. C. - 1806 - Страниц: 156
...faint idea how we appropriated the long summer day, and the winter's contracted one. THE SAGE EDNOR. " Prosperity is not without many fears and distastes...; and adversity is not without comforts and hopes. The good things which belong to prosperity are to be wished ; but the good things which belong to adversity... | |
 | 1821 - Страниц: 416
...many herse-like airs as carols; and the pencil of the Holy Ghost hath laboured more in describing the afflictions of Job than the felicities of Solomon....a dark and melancholy work upon a lightsome ground : jndge, therefore of the pleasure of the heart by the pleasure of the eye. Certainly virtue is like... | |
 | Henry Southern, Sir Nicholas Harris Nicolas - 1821 - Страниц: 402
...many herselike airs as carols ; and the pencil of the Holy Ghost hath laboured more in describing the afflictions of Job than the felicities of Solomon....embroideries, it is more pleasing to have a lively work upon . sad and solemn ground, than to have a dark and melancholy work upon a lightsome ground ; judge therefore... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1825 - Страниц: 524
...many hearse-like airs as carols; and the pencil of the Holy Ghost hath laboured more in describing the afflictions of Job than the felicities of Solomon....adversity is not without comforts and hopes. We see in needle works and embroideries, it is more pleasing to have a lively work upon a sad and solemn ground,... | |
 | Francis Bacon, Basil Montagu - 1825 - Страниц: 550
...hearse-like airs as carols ; and the pencil of the Holy Ghost hath laboured more in describing the afflictions of -Job than the felicities of Solomon....adversity is not without comforts and hopes. We see in needle works and embroideries, it is more pleasing to have a lively work upon a sad and solemn ground,... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1825 - Страниц: 538
...hearse-like airs as carols ; and the pencil of the Holy Ghost hath laboured more in describing the afflictions of Job than the felicities of Solomon....adversity is not without comforts and hopes. We see in needle works and embroideries, it is more pleasing to have a lively work upon a sad and solemn ground,... | |
 | 1827 - Страниц: 316
...prevent our comprehending, nothing but wilful ertor can hinder us from embracing". — IHiss Mare. "Prosperity is not without many fears and distastes...; and adversity is not without comforts and hopes. Virtue is like precious odours, most fragrant when they are crushed. The virtue of prosperity is temperance,... | |
 | John Timbs - 1829 - Страниц: 354
...grows weary of examining, and is tempted to consider all as equally fallacious. — Johnson. LXIX. We see in needleworks and embroideries, it is more pleasing to have a lively work upon a sad and solenm ground, than to have a dark and melancholy work upon a lightsome ground: judge, therefore, of... | |
 | 1831 - Страниц: 548
...hearse-like airs, as carols. And the pencil of the Holy Ghost hath laboured more in describing the affliotion of Job than the felicities of Solomon. Prosperity...ground. Judge, therefore, of the pleasure of the heart hy the pleasure of the eye. Certainly virtue is like precious odours, most fragrant when they are burned... | |
 | 1835 - Страниц: 334
...hearse-like airs a.5 carols ; and the pencil of the Holy Ghost hath laboured more in describing the afflictions of Job than the felicities of Solomon....and adversity is not without comforts and hopes. We sec in needle-works and embroideries it is niore pleasing to have a lively work upon a sad and solemn... | |
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