In the reign of Queen Anne he was a boy, and one of the nine children of a poor curate in Lancashire, whose stipend never amounted to thirty pounds a-year, and consequently the family must feel the iron teeth of penury with a witness.
He lived in penury and discontent, dissatisfied with mankind and with himself, until at last, overcome by misfortune, and depressed by an incurable malady, he sought rest in painless suicide.
He was never without numerous commissions, even though confining his talents to the Friuli; but either from want of prudence, or some other reason, he nevertheless died in penurynear Portogruaro.
Excuses could readily be found to bring the hated foreign heretic under its jurisdiction and, in the chronic penury of the time, the opportunity of rich confiscations was not likely to be lost sight of.
By this time Silva was reduced to penury and the ambassador out of compassion forbore to deliver the message, when João angrily repeated his instructions with additional emphasis.
If there were no penury and no pain, what would become of fortitude; what of patience; what of resignation?
This was followed by an age of sentiment, when earnest thought gradually amelioratedpenury of invention, and supplied intensity to expression.
This abode of penury may at least prove the disinterestedness of my conduct.
She was considered a traitor by both, the ruin of her husband followed; they avoided death by a timely flight, and she fell from the height of her desires to penury in England.
In short, great for the most part is the penury of poets; but greater was my need, since it obliged me to eat what he left.
In spite of the sordid penury of his way of life, Carriazo showed himself a prince in his actions.
My master being a stingy hunks, like all his caste, I lived like himself chiefly on maize bread and buckwheat porridge; but this penury helped me to gain paradise, in the strange manner you shall hear.
This certainty of future prodigality was so clear to his mind's eye that present penury escaped his attention.
His penury had long brought on him the contempt of his fellow lodgers, but this unexpected gift of five rupees became to them insufferable.
In the grim irony of that exposure, their own penurywas doubly conscious.
For in our great Commercial World Loud storms have rung their changes round, While some are from high station hurled And in chill Penury are found.
Time was when chill penury stared in my face, And I was made feel it almost a disgrace.
Through fire and water, through penury and pestilence, your hand will always be on his shoulder.
She glimpsed Chinese penurywhen she entered a square given over to the fishmongers.
In the stranger student he recognized a brother in penuryand hope.
His life had been changed so suddenly during the last few months; he had gone so swiftly from the depths of penury to the last extreme of luxury, that at moments he felt as uncomfortable as a dreaming man who knows that he is asleep.
She could, it is true, recall the penury and the privation, but not the feelings that grew out of them.
To draw the rags of poverty closer, to make their folds drape decently, and hide the penury within, that is the victory, indeed.
On the right the stately length of the people's legislative palace, so new in its date, so elaborately in each detail ancient in its form, stretching on towards the lowly and jagged roofs of penury and crime.
It was a primitive English village, not adorned on the one hand with fancy or model cottages, nor on the other hand indicating penury and squalor.
Something sharper than penury had worn them to the bones--the sense that their occupation was gone.
It was only as he saw the pitiable penury of his own scanty wardrobe that he could persuade himself to accept of Walpole's offer.
I was now in a situation which might have alarmed the fears even of one born to penury and inured to hardship.
Ambition to their eyes her ample page Rich with such monstrous crimes did ne'er unroll, Chill penury repressed their native rage, And froze the bloody current of their soul.
For difficulties in a palace she might be prepared; perhaps even for some privations in a cottage ornee,--but certainly not for penury in a lodging-house!
