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This in itself was enough to sadden me, for without the favours of the fickle goddess life was not worth living, for me at all events. My object, then, was to return to my country; it was as if I struggled to undo all that I had done. All I could hope for was to soften the hardships of the slow but certain passage to the grave. These are the thoughts of declining years and not of youth.
Old Bill ought to have told you long before this. But he loves you. So does everybody. You must not let this knowledge sadden you.... I'm sorry you've never known a mother or a sister. Why, I could tell you of many orphans who whose stories were different." "You don't understand. I've been happy. I've not longed for any any one except a mother. It's only " "What don't I understand?"
By twilight she returned to Venus with her arms full of shining fleece. "No mortal wit did this," said Venus angrily. "But if you care to prove your readiness, go now, with this little box, down to Proserpina and ask her to enclose in it some of her beauty, for I have grown pale in caring for my wounded son." It needed not the last taunt to sadden Psyche.
Ye are not far separated by ungenial years, and might glide to a common grave hand in hand; but I, older in heart than in age, am yet so far thine elder in the last, that these hairs will be gray, and this form bent, while thy beauty is in its prime, and but thou weepest!" "I weep that thou shouldst bring one thought of time to sadden my thoughts, which are of eternity.
I will promise not to be sad again." "I will be silent, but you must keep your word and be cheerful, so as not to sadden the poor boy." "I will." Anna Sophia kept her word. She gave Charles Henry a bright, cheery welcome. While she was joking and laughing with the old man, evening came upon them, and as it cast its shadows about, Charles Henry became more and more silent and sad.
It will be of use for him to repeat these with a grave and distinct voice, accommodated to those cadences, which the commas, the periods, and the notes of interrogation, marked in his author, may require, but without the smallest instruction to humour the gay, or to sadden the plaintive. Another article, that makes a conspicuous figure in the education of our youth, is composition.
The whole structure of society is full of separating walls; and it will sadden the heart of any Northern man, who travels in either of these three States, to see how poor, and meagre, and narrow a thing life is to all the country people.
She was struck by the sadden paleness that came over his features again, as en the former occasion, when allusion was made to her at his recent visit to Amherstburgh. He saw that his emotion was remarked, and fought to bide it under an appearance of unconcern, as he replied: "Neither Miss Montgomerie nor her uncle are embarked.
It is too severe to sadden the harmless mirth of others by suffering your own causeless melancholy to be seen; and this species of exertion is, like virtue, its own reward; for the good spirits, which are at first simulated, become at length real. My oath seemed satisfactory; but new reasons were alleged for additional discussion, which is, I trust, to end this wearisome matter. I dined with Mr.
Such thoughts sadden yet satisfy my heart, for they teach me that the poor man in this mean, weatherbeaten hovel, without a fire to cheer him, may call the rich his brother brethren by Sorrow, who must be an inmate of both their households; brethren by Death, who will lead them both to other homes. Onward, still onward, I plunge into the night.
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