with all that should accompany old age," " As honour, love, obedience, troops of friends," was, as she often declared, with gratitude to Providence, happier in age than she had been even in youth. Patronage - Seite 219von Maria Edgeworth - 1833Vollansicht - Über dieses Buch
| Maria Edgeworth - 1814 - 434 Seiten
...Mrs. Hungerford, at an advanced age, was not a wretched, selfish Madame du Deffand, exacting homage and attentions, yet disbelieving in the existence...'' with all that should accompany old age," •" As honor, love, obedience, troops of friends," was, as she often declared, with gratitude to Providence,... | |
| Maria Edgeworth - 1814 - 462 Seiten
...Mrs. Hungerford, at an advanced age, was not a wretched, selfish Madame du Deffand, exacting homage and attentions, yet disbelieving in the existence...surrounded " with all that should accompany old age," • : • • i . " As honor, love, obedience, troops of friends/' • was, as she often declared,... | |
| New Church gen. confer - 616 Seiten
...surrounding him, and to which his heart so adequately responded, possessed, besides, to the last of •All that should accompany old age. As honour, love, obedience, troops of friends,' his seemed to be a visible exemplification in this lower world of the lot of the man whose blessedness... | |
| Maria Edgeworth - 1825 - 560 Seiten
...Mrs. Hungerford, at an advanced age, was not a wretched, selfish Madame du Deffand, exacting homage and attentions, yet disbelieving in the existence...esteeming any one. Mrs. Hungerford, surrounded " with alt that should accompany old age," - As konout, lore, obedience, troops of frie»ds," was, as she... | |
| 1853 - 704 Seiten
...with the war, except the miserable necessity of paying for it. Mr. Tucker, who died full of years, with " All that should accompany old age. As honour, love, obedience, troops of friends," thick around him, retained all his intellectual vigour and power of expression to the last, and some... | |
| Stephen Rumbold Lushington - 1840 - 586 Seiten
...act, on either side* ; both descended to the tomb amidst the tears of their respective families, " with all that should accompany old age, as honour, love, obedience, troops of friends," little thinking that their ashes would be disturbed by the illiudging hands of indiscreet relatives,... | |
| Anne Katharine Curteis Elwood - 1843 - 368 Seiten
...you, I find the choice of worsteds a far more amusing study than the choice of words." Surrounded by all " that should accompany old age, as honour, love, obedience, troops of friends," it is no wonder that she should meet its approach with fortitude and cheerfulness; and the following... | |
| Heinrich Zschokke - 1845 - 250 Seiten
...Among the green lawns and groves of his pleasant Btumenhalde, the old man yet wanders, most rich " In all that should accompany old age, As honour, love, obedience, troops of friends;" and yet richer in the added wisdom and experience of a well-spent threescore years and twelve ; and... | |
| Gallery - 1848 - 288 Seiten
...reflected, that having devoted to his country's service his youth and manhood, an old age of peace, " With all that should accompany old age — As honour, love, obedience, troops of friends," now lay before him. Doubtless, too, he anticipated with fond delight, his re-union with her, who had... | |
| William Hickling Prescott - 1849 - 598 Seiten
...were under a cloud. Not that victory sat less constantly on his banner ; but at home he had lost " All that should accompany old age, As honour, love, obedience, troops of friends." His ill advised marriage disgusted his Castilian subjects. He ruled over them, indeed, but more in... | |
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