| David Morrice - 1801 - 328 sider
...to exert yourselves for their support; and, though it is a received proverb among men of the world, that "when poverty comes in at the door love flies out at the window," yet it will be found completely false, where there is true love ; and you must learn to separate the... | |
| 1807 - 472 sider
...of — " Love na Cottage;" on the contrary, from a more extensive observation of men and manners, 1 am more inclined to echo the adage of our old nurse,...us, that " When Poverty comes in at the door, Love flics out at the window.'' And yet, dear friend, one would wish thatr fortune should be but a secondary... | |
| 1864 - 868 sider
...some expressions of dissatisfaction being uttered, one of our elder brethen quoted the old proverb, " when poverty comes in at the door, love flies out at the window," and no more was said. In feet the crisis has been looked at in a generous spirit. It is believed that the... | |
| William Giles - 1811 - 268 sider
...hope or earthly joy f Thy gifts, O fortnne> 1 resign, Let her aiul poverty be mine! I know it is said, That when poverty comes in at the door, love flies out at the window. But why should this be thought strange ? The marriages to which the remark is applicable were originally... | |
| 1814 - 568 sider
...sunt. Poverty has, at times, the power of destroying even the affection of a parent to his offspring. " When poverty comes in at the door, love flies out at the window." In extreme poverty, the mind is too intensely employed in procuring sustenance, to have leisure to... | |
| 1818 - 598 sider
...real sufferings of an unavailing repentance. Every old woman in the parish ba« an Shswer ready, ' When Poverty comes in at the door, Love flies out at the window'—' Marry in haste, and repent at leisure' — And what think you will become of affection when dissatisfaction... | |
| Catherine Hutton - 1819 - 328 sider
...Very fine, indeed, if it will but hold ! but your two hundred a year won't main tain a family; and when poverty comes in at the door, love flies out at the window." " My Margaret's habits of economy will keep out the fiend," said Millichamp ; " and, if I err, she... | |
| Charles Swan - 1824 - 566 sider
...represented by three persons. The three dukes are the devil, the world, and the flesh ; when they die, * When Poverty comes in at the door, Love flies out at the window — ENGLISH PROVERB. that is, when the soul repents of her sins, do not again be united to them. TALE... | |
| John Wade - 1824 - 258 sider
...thither ; the third is thwick-thwack ; the fourth, the devil take them that brought thee and I together. When poverty comes in at the door, love flies out at the window. Who has a bad wife, has purgatory for a neighbour. — Italian. Who is a cnckold, and conceals it,... | |
| Romani - 1824 - 548 sider
...represented by three persons. The three dukes are the devil, the world, and the flesh ; when they die, * When Poverty comes in at the door, Love flies out at the window.— ENGLISH PROVERB. 1 that is, when the soul repents of her sins, do not again be united to them. TALE... | |
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