 | Francis Bacon - 1874 - 700 pagina’s
...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 describing the afflictions...is more pleasing to have a lively work upon a sad 2 and solemn ground, than to have a dark and melancholy work upon a lightsome ground: judge, therefore,... | |
 | Wesleyan Reform Union of Churches - 1874 - 432 pagina’s
...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 describing the afflictions...needleworks 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 ground.... | |
 | English literature - 1874 - 274 pagina’s
...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 describing the afflictions...Solomon. Prosperity is not without many fears and disasters, and adversity is not without comforts and hopes. We see in needle-works and embroideries,... | |
 | John Milton Berdan, John Richie Schultz, Hewette Elwell Joyce - 1916 - 482 pagina’s
...truth more nearly. But, as the old philosopher has said, "The pencil of the Holy Ghost hath labored more in describing the afflictions of Job than the felicities of Solomon," and we ought, perhaps, to expect no more of the men of letters. Yet when even the latest, and in some... | |
 | John Milton Berdan, John Richie Schultz, Hewette Elwell Joyce - 1915 - 472 pagina’s
...truth more nearly. But, as the old philosopher has said, "The pencil of the Holy Ghost hath labored more in describing the afflictions of Job than the felicities of Solomon," and we ought, perhaps, to expect no more of the men of letters. Yet when even the latest, and in some... | |
 | William Frank Bryan, Ronald Salmon Crane - 1916 - 576 pagina’s
...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 describing the afflictions of Job than the felicities of Salomon. Prosperity is not without many fears and distastes; and adversity is not without comforts... | |
 | Roy Bennett Pace - 1918 - 428 pagina’s
...themselves as if not meant for parts of wholes. In the essay Of Adversity, for example, we read : " Prosperity is not without many fears and distastes...; and adversity is not without comforts and hopes; " this between a sentence dealing with the predominance of sadness over joy in the Old Testament, and... | |
 | William George Fitz-Gerald - 1918 - 456 pagina’s
...punished in the breach and favoured in the observance. It is true, as Bacon noted, that "the pencil of the Holy Ghost hath laboured more in describing the afflictions of Job than the felicities of Solomon." But such pencils are gaily edited in this New "World. Even its early Puritanism, as Professor Charming... | |
 | John Todhunter - 1920 - 180 pagina’s
...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 describing the afflictions of Job than the felicities of Solomon." This, in the Essay OJ Friendship, is quaintly expressed. " The Parable of Pythagoras is dark, but true,... | |
 | Christopher Birdwood Baron Thomson - 1922 - 216 pagina’s
...cruel, vindictive and tyrannical, the very faults for which they blamed the Turks. As Bacon says : ' ' Prosperity is not without many fears and distastes...and adversity is not without comforts and hopes." While Servia groaned beneath the Turkish yoke, cycles of songs had fortified her faith and poetized... | |
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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 describing the afflictions of Job than the felicities of Solomon. 
