| 1837 - 604 pages
...dearest Clementina, let us be rational. We are almost without a sixpence. There is an old adage, that, when poverty comes in at the door, love flies out of the window. Shall I then make you miserable ! No, no ! Hear me, Clementina. I will be generous. I now absolve you... | |
| Thomas Moore - 1823 - 288 pages
...cold, when the poverty season sets in — for it is but too true what some fine poet has said, that ' When Poverty comes in at the door, Love flies out of the window.' SONG.— Susan. Young Love lived once in an humble shed, Where roses breathing, And woodbines wreathing... | |
| Thomas Moore - 1823 - 288 pages
...cold, when the poverty season sets in — for it is but too true what some fine poet has said, that ' When Poverty comes in at the door, Love flies out of the window.' . . • • * * • SONG.— Susan. Young Love lived once in an humble shed, Where roses breathing,... | |
| Tobias Merton (pseud) - 1826 - 318 pages
...dark clouds of adversity, and mayhap she has now to lament over the truth of the old proverb, that " when poverty comes in at the door, love flies out of the window !" Opposite to Agnes sits Mary — our Mary — the high-priestess of the night's ceremonies, to whose... | |
| 1831 - 426 pages
...Though tha people were ever so much in love with their Government, according to experience, oftentimes " when poverty comes in at the door, love flies out of the window ; " so that it is not surprising that, notwithstanding every use which can be made of the army, and... | |
| 1835 - 534 pages
...strangers. All around were too busied with their own selfish griefs. There is an old saying that ' when Poverty comes in at the door, Love flies out of the window.' But were this true, it could not mean a father's love, — it could not reach a daughter's devotion.... | |
| William Giles - 1836 - 172 pages
...earthly joy ! Thy gifts, 0 fortune, I resign, Let her and poverty he mine ! I know it is said, That when poverty comes in at the door, love flies out of the window. But why should this be thought strange ? The marriages to which the remark is applicable were not,... | |
| 1862 - 786 pages
...Themselves. 12. Eight Wrongs no Man. 13. More are Drowned in Beer than in Water. 14. Store is No Sore. 15. When Poverty comes in at the Door, love flies out of the Window. 16. Marry in Haste and Repent at Leisure. 17. It is Never too Late to Learn. 18. Fine Feathers make... | |
| Frederick Marryat - 1840 - 1032 pages
...dearest Clementina, let us be rational. We are almost without a sixpence. There is an old adage, that when poverty comes in at the door, love flies out of the window. Shall I then make you miserable ! E 3 N T o, no ! Hear me, Clementina. I will be generous. I now absolve... | |
| Robert Plumer Ward - 1841 - 648 pages
...Muse, but seek not to marry her ; or it may fare with you as it has with many a married couple : — ' when poverty comes in at the door, love flies out of the window.' " It is astonishing what an impression all this made upon me, and how well afterwards in the world... | |
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