| Robin Peel - Literary Criticism - 2005 - 364 pages
...the house of mirth is preceded by two stark and rousing calls to mortification: "It is better to go to the house of mourning than to go to the house of feasting: for that is the end of all men; and the living will lay it to his heart. Sorrow is better than laughter:... | |
| Walter Curtis Lichfield - Bible - 2005 - 626 pages
...than precious ointment; and the day of death than the day of one's birth. 7:2 (It is) better to go to the house of mourning, than to go to the house of feasting: for that (is) the end of all men; and the living will lay (it) to his heart, 7:3 Sorrow (is) better... | |
| Oscar Wilde - Literary Criticism - 2000 - 360 pages
...Reading Prison. 32. house oj mourning: The phrase W uses occurs in Ecclesiastes 7: 2: 'It is better to go to the house of mourning, than to go to the house of feasting.' 169.3. ^ • • • Saturday week: H & HD date this as probably occurring on 27 Feb. 1897 when Robert... | |
| Salih Alexander - Religion - 2005 - 100 pages
...self-destruction Akin to this embark Take charge of your convictions And leap out of the dark It is better to go to the house of mourning, than to go to the house of feasting: for that is the end of all men; and the living will lay it to his heart. Sorrow is better than laughter:... | |
| Christian Riegel - Literary Criticism - 2005 - 310 pages
...gladness." Ecclesiastes 7:2 contrasts the solemnity of mourning and death with feasting: "It is better to go to the house of mourning, than to go to the house of feasting: for that is the end of all men; and the living will lay it to his heart." At 7:4, this contrast is... | |
| Anonymous - Bibles - 2005 - 416 pages
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