| 1862 - 458 pagine
...to the extravagant ideas of one or of both their parents ; and, notwithstanding the old proverb, " When poverty comes in at the door, love flies out at the window," it is not a mere fiction of novel writers that many couples have lived in great happiness whose menage... | |
| Bruce Edwards - 1862 - 316 pagine
...to give a strong, pithy view of one side of a case. It needs its companion proverb to balance it, as 'When poverty comes in at the door, love flies out at the window.' The truth lies between the two." CHAPTEE VI. THE month of March had come round, and I was still keeping... | |
| 1862 - 582 pagine
...;" and unbelief has credited the lie. Have you ever been tried in providence? An old proverb says, "When poverty comes in at the door, love flies out at the window." Now, if you bare been tried in providence, you will feel that yon can slightly alter the proverb, and... | |
| Elizabeth Missing Sewell - 1863 - 584 pagine
...to do so, I should ultimately sacrifice both.' ' Most true,' replied Mrs. Verney. ' The old proverb, when poverty comes in at the door, love flies out at the window, is I fear but too true.' 'Proverbs, my dear madam, contain the wisdom of ages. That which you have... | |
| Elizabeth Missing Sewell - 1863 - 588 pagine
...to do so, I should ultimately sacrifice both.' ' Most true,' replied Mrs. Verney. ' The old proverb, when poverty comes in at the door, love flies out at the window, is I fear but too true.' 'Proverbs, my dear madam, contain the wisdom of ages. That which you have... | |
| william harrison ainsworth - 1864 - 516 pagine
...him make up for this ? Would his love stand it ? Alphonse repeated to himself the English proverb, " When poverty comes in at the door, love flies out at the window." Then his debts — how were they ever to be paid ? He really could not ask any further loans from his... | |
| John Maynard (of Plymouth.) - 1864 - 180 pagine
...difficulties and embarrassments. Under such circumstances, the truth of the old adage is fearfully verified: "When poverty comes in at the door, love flies out at the window." Add to this, that frequently there is soon'an increase to the family. On and on the stream flows ;... | |
| 1865 - 792 pagine
...without a r.gh — his with a heavy heart. The lives of the most distressed families prove the proverb, ' When poverty comes in at the door, love flies out at the window,' a gross libel. It is the time when love reaches its climax in woman, maltes it manifest, proves its... | |
| Peter Mackenzie - 1865 - 664 pagine
...Political Economy, with the most learned Professors in all the land; but, as the old proverb hath it, " When poverty comes in at the door, love flies out at the window"—so, many of these poor weavers left their shuttles to denounce—we give it in their own... | |
| 1887 - 532 pagine
...pay did not arrive very regularly. The family was, accordingly, somewhat straitened in circumstances. When poverty comes in at the door, love flies out at the window. Mme. de Senac had long ceased to love her husband. They had been married in 1681, when he was aged... | |
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