 Prosperity is not without many fears and distastes ; and 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, than to have a dark and melancholy work...  The Family monitor - Trang 3351831Xem Toàn bộ - Giới thiệu về cuốn sách này
 | Francis Bacon - 1854 - 894 trang
...airs -as carols : and the pencil of the Holy Ghost hath laboured more in describing the afflictions of Job than the felicities of Solomon. Prosperity...ground : judge therefore of the pleasure of the heart by the pleasure of the eye. Certainly virtue is like precious odours, most fragrant when they are incensed... | |
 | Kenelm Henry Digby - 1854 - 626 trang
...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 - 1855 - 468 trang
...hearse-like airs as carols ; and the pencil of the Holy Ghost hath labored more in describing the afflictions of Job than the felicities of 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... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1856 - 406 trang
...airs, as carols ; and the pencil of the Holy Ghost hath labored more, in describing the afflictions of Job, than the felicities of Solomon. Prosperity...ground ; judge, therefore, of the pleasure of the heart by the pleasure of the eye. Certainly, virtue is like precious odors, most fragrant when they are incensed,... | |
 | Abraham Mills - 1856 - 590 trang
...airs as carols ; and the pencil of the Holy Ghost hath laboured more in describing the afflictions of Job than the felicities of Solomon. Prosperity...ground ; judge, therefore, of the pleasure of the heart by the pleasure of the eye. Certainly virtue is like precious odours, most fragrant where they are... | |
 | Harvey Buckland - 1856 - 208 trang
...airs as carols; and the pencil of the holy Spirit hath laboured more in describing the afflictions of Job than the felicities of Solomon. Prosperity...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... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1856 - 752 trang
...Solomon. Prosperity is riot without many fears and distastes; and adversity is not without comforts ami hopes. We see in needleworks and embroideries it is...ground. Judge therefore of the pleasure of the heart by the pleasure of the eye. Certainly virtue is like precious odours, most fragrant when they are incensed... | |
 | John Timbs - 1856 - 378 trang
...grows weary of examining, and is tempted to consider all as equally fallacious. — Johnson. I.XIX. We see in needleworks and embroideries, it is more...ground : judge, therefore, of the pleasure of the heart by the pleasure of the eye. Certainly virtue is like precious odours, most fragrant where they are... | |
 | Francis Bacon (visct. St. Albans.) - 1856 - 562 trang
...-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. Prosperity...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,... | |
 | 1856 - 702 trang
...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... | |
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