Can all that thou hast sung bring into congeniality perfection of wickedness and perfection of holiness, perfection of wretchedness and perfection of happiness, perfect opposition in nature and principle?
Do not let a thought of misery or wretchedness dwell upon your mind.
And now came another tedious interval of suspense, the wretchedness of which was enhanced by the increasing indisposition of the Prince.
I took an affectionate farewell of those who had behaved so well towards me, and removed to a humble lodging, where I soon experienced all the wretchedness of my lonely and unfriended position.
The town is in ruins, but its wretchedness is overpowered by life and movement.
Everything has an air of nonchalant wretchedness and Oriental dilapidation in this convent built by the Emperor Justinian fourteen centuries ago.
There was a general air of wetness and wretchedness from the infantry to the cavalry barracks, and some misgivings were entertained as to the condition of the garrison of Lough Mask House.
In many parts of Kerry may be found townlands vying in wretchednesswith Coshleen and Champolard, with Derryinver, Cleggan, and Omey Island while others give abundant evidence of improvement and enlightened management.
He felt that he loved her more than ever and that he must make up with his devotion for all the wretchedness she had suffered in the past.
To her world the night brought no peace or rest, only accumulated wretchedness and woe.
This went on for some time, till the poor child's life was nothing but wretchedness and misery.
I had been every whit as indifferent to the wretchedness of my brothers, as cynically incredulous of better things, as besotted a worshipper of Chaos and Old Night, as any of my fellows.
Were these human beings, who could behold the wretchedness of their fellows without so much as a change of countenance?
No man of his time did so much as he to turn men's minds to the wrong and wretchedness of the old order of things, and open their eyes to the necessity of the great change that was coming, although he himself did not clearly foresee it.
The festering mass of humanwretchedness about me offended not now my senses merely, but pierced my heart like a knife, so that I could not repress sighs and groans.
Was it about Miss Fotheringay, and his eternal passion, which had kept him awake so many nights, and created such wretchedness and such longing?
I don't know, but it seems as if I ought not to enjoy one cheerful hour while so much wretchedness surrounds us.
In 1356, when he was thirty-two, he wrote a tract on the last ages of the Church, in view of the wretchedness produced by the great plague eight years before.
In some respects it had reached the lowest depth of wretchedness which the Middle Ages ever saw.
We see that an increased amount of poverty and wretchedness has to be borne in New England by both races.
In the presence of this mysterious complication of benefits and wretchedness rises the wherefore of history.
In the midst of all thiswretchedness women were brave and gentle.
I drew confidences from her regarding the wretchedness of her home life.
An uneasy, shoddy street I thought the Strand, full of insistent tawdriness and of broken-spirited folk whose wretchedness had something in it more despicable than pitiable.
Indeed, it was in this wise that I obtained my first inklings of the real wretchedness of Fanny's life.
To doubt that contentment lies that way would be wretchedness indeed.
If she could have foreseen the distinctest wretchedness it would have been all the same.
The content of these people is manifestly great, for, relative to the wretchedness that encompasses them, they are well off.
Wretchedness squirms for alleviation, and in the public- house its pain is eased and forgetfulness is obtained.
Some months ago I wrote of a phase of wretchednessin our great cities, which I designated "Uninvited Poverty.
In my former paper I spoke of suffering where the wretchedness sprang from sin at the head of the social fountain.
The mystery of the whole creation suffering together oppressed and solemnized her life, for it was no hearsay of cold, and hunger, and wretchedness that touched Ada.
I can excuse a man who is mad with grief and wretchedness and anxiety, and doesn't know what he is saying.
It is something about a bill--it was something about a bill before; and I thought I could soften papa, and persuade him to be merciful; but it has all turned to greater wretchedness and misery.
Even the habit he had of going into Elsworthy's to get his newspaper, and to hear what talk might be current in Carlingford, contributed to the sense of utter discomfort and wretchedness which overwhelmed him.
