Neither poetry nor painting could ever grasp the freshness of her wild sweetness: one must see her to know the abject poverty of their highest efforts.
She blushed, bit her lip and said, as Heaven was her judge, she would, but she had no fortune of her own, and she had seen too much of married life in poverty to dare to enter it under those circumstances.
Men become hoarders, savers, misers, or work themselves beyond healthful endurance, or shut out the daily joys of existence in their business absorption, because they dread poverty in their old age.
The United States government is directly responsible for the illiteracy and the widespread poverty which obtain in the South.
But, happily, the rugged genius of New England made up then and makes up now for the poverty of literary effort on the part of the South.
So a few men were able to live in luxury, even in those troubled days, while the great majority suffered in poverty and misery and despair.
Would he make their children slaves and take the best of their flocks and herds and wheat and oil, leaving them in poverty while he lived in luxury?
These men who thought enough of their nation to go back to the home land and help it in its weakness and povertyalmost always became leaders.
But seeing that the public poverty was very great, owing to the war with the Lacedaemonians, he compelled the richer classes, men and women alike, to make promises of money and furnish separate contributions.
Let us do what we can for the destruction of ignorance, poverty and crime.
Poverty no longer feels at home in the house of God.
It is no advantage to live in a great city, where poverty degrades and failure brings despair.
They were the philosophers of povertyand rags, of huts and hovels, of ignorance and faith.
But, owing to the polemic poverty of our opponents, the argument was more in name than in fact.
I surveyed my title to this reputation for learning, and was shocked at the poverty of my estate.
That is far better than the affectations with which men conceal the poverty of their minds and their intellectual servility.
Inside the cottage a rushlight burned faintly, indicating the poverty of the room, and illuminating the death-like features of the boy who lay on the bed.
There are many occasions when we cannot express feeling in intellectual terms owing to the poverty of language.
Poverty being their economic condition, it is not to be supposed that the young men who did happen to be rich in their own right migrated to Bohemia for the mere pleasure of its society.
There were, of course, degrees of poverty in Bohemia, just as there were degrees of economic adaptability.
Sceptics, materialists, loaded with debt, they raised poverty to a system and laughed at their voluntary insolvency.
Still, in spite of all degrees and differences, poverty was very real.
Poverty among the struggling writers was acute, but nobody cared a fig about money when all cared so much about art--a merciful dispensation of Providence.
Ranged round the room, with their thin, meagre portions of meat and bread, their pale decanter of water before them, sit the students, whom a youth of poverty and privation is preparing for a life of energy or science.
The figures seemed more or less disguised; those who swept by in the glories of velvet and gold were not all among the noblest or most dignified-looking, neither were all those who wore the garb of poverty insignificant or vulgar.
If you are in povertyor affliction I shall be truly glad to relieve you if I can,--I shall indeed.
Still, he would not have taken any woman with poverty unless it were some court favorite the King or Queen would dower.
Every year money had grown dearer and dearer to him, though, miser like, he made no spread, never bragged, but pleaded poverty when he paid church dues at Christmas and Easter.
They write music in which one grows weary of finding the same delinquency--the invariable fault of emptiness, of poverty of idea, allied with an extreme elaboration in the manner of presentation.
A day, an hour had transported her from bitter poverty and torturing yearning to the side of the highest and greatest of monarchs, but who could tell for how long--how soon the fall into the gulf awaited her?
The contemplation of such honest and laborious poverty made the orphans have reflections no longer those of children, but of young women.
Seven representatives summed up the virtue, courage, degradation, splendor, and poverty of the race.
So the policeman resumed, with great severity, following that supreme law of appearances which makes poverty always suspected: "Stop a bit, young woman!
It is true, that your optimists say to these pariahs of civilization, whose proud and noble poverty cannot be too much revered and honored: "Buy an estate and you too may be electors and candidates!
Poverty is no crime," answered Dagobert; "and I must tell you honestly that I cannot afford to pay for drink.
I think that he comes home only to change one kind of poverty for another.
Too much tenderness cannot be shown to pious young women like you, whom poverty has only purified because they have always faithfully observed the divine laws.
His exaggerated sense of the value of the smallest sum of money is like a hallucination, arising out of the unexpected discovery of a great treasure after a life of poverty has made pinching and sparing a second nature to him.
He did not indeed improve his fortunes, owing, as he says, to the poverty of the province and the meanness of his chief.
I need hardly say that, in this case, the color of the vegetation gave unmistakable signs of the poverty of the soil; but in the midst of the dingy yellowish-green of the herbage, I came upon one square of bright green grass.
Weeds, and inferior grasses, can hold their own as long as poverty exists, but with a liberal supply of manure, the superior grasses overgrow and drive out the bad grasses and weeds.
But the house still has its own beauty, though it is the wild beauty of poverty and neglect.
We should be strangers in a strange land; perhaps poverty would be added to our endurance; I should have to labour unceasingly, and my temper might fail.
Let him not insult her by the doubt that she dreads poverty or long delay.
Besides, Harold Gwynne shall share my success," he thought; and he formed many schemes for changing the comparative poverty of the parsonage into comfort and luxury.
I know more of his affairs than any one else; and I know, too, that he may be in great poverty one day.
Poverty did not swerve him, nor prosperity sate him.
For this the poverty or extravagance of their owners is to blame.
This is an indication, not of wealth, but of poverty and stagnant trade.
Poverty and misery, upon the other hand, are terribly concrete things.
William's successful occupation of Ireland, where her husband was Lord Deputy, reduced her to poverty and obscurity, and she was probably the first Peeress who ever took to millinery as a livelihood.
While laboring at Stockbridge, in the midst of poverty and privation, Jonathan Edwards wrote the treatise on the Freedom of the Will, the greatest of all existing polemics.
