 | 1856 - 702 pàgines
...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...the felicities of Solomon. Prosperity is not without comforts and hopes. We see in needleworks and embroideries, it is more pleasing to have a lively work... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1856 - 752 pàgines
...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 laboured more...Job than the felicities of Solomon. Prosperity is riot without many fears and distastes; and adversity is not without comforts ami hopes. We see in needleworks... | |
 | 1857 - 240 pàgines
...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...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... | |
 | 1857 - 584 pàgines
...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...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... | |
 | 1857 - 372 pàgines
...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...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... | |
 | William Henry Smith - 1857 - 190 pàgines
...the Old Testament, if you listen to David's harp, you will hear as many hearse-like airs as carols ; and the pencil of the Holy Ghost hath laboured more...Solomon. Prosperity is not without many fears and distates, and adversity is not without comforts and hopes. We see in needleworks and embroideries,... | |
 | 1857 - 654 pàgines
...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 felici' ties of Solomon. Prosperity is not without, many fears and distastes ; and adversity is not... | |
 | Francis Bacon, Richard Whately - 1857 - 578 pàgines
...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 felicities1 of Solomon. Prosperity is not without many fears and distastes ; and adversity is not without... | |
 | William Henry Smith - 1857 - 188 pàgines
...afflictions of Job, than the felicities of Solomon. Prosperity is not without many fears and distates, and adversity is not without comforts and hopes. We see in needleworks and embroideries, it is more pleasing to have a lively work on a sad and solemn ground, than to have a dark and melancholy... | |
 | Henry Reed - 1857 - 242 pàgines
...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." The moral use of tragic poetry consists then in such employment of poetic truth that the poet's sad... | |
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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. 
