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accumulate acquisitiveness amassed anxious appearance Audley became become benevolence bestow Blewbury bread charity clothes comfort cunning curious Daniel Dancer death died dirty discovered eccentric excited feeling FEMALE MISERS fortune frugality gold gratify guineas heap heart human mind hundred thousand pounds indulged insanity Jacques Laffitte JEMMY TAYLOR John Elwes Kentish Town Lady Tempest lived love of hoarding lust for gold luxury Madame de Genlis Mammon miserly Mounsey neighbours never known night object observed old miser old woman parsi parsimony passion of avarice penny penury poor possessed pounds per annum propen propensity rags readers refused remarkable replied rich ruling passion says seen shillings singular Sir Harvey Elwes SIR JAMES LOWTHER Sir William Smyth sixpence sordid soul Southwark starved streets sums of money Thomas Guy thought tion took treasure trifling tulip tulip mania usurious Vandille vice Vooght wealth whilst whole worth wretched
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Стр. 31 - Who sees pale Mammon pine amidst his store, Sees but a backward steward for the poor ; This year, a reservoir, to keep and spare ; The next, a fountain, spouting through...
Стр. 12 - Hoards after hoards his rising raptures fill, Yet still he sighs, for hoards are wanting still : Thus to my breast alternate passions rise, Pleased with each good that Heaven to man supplies ; Yet oft a sigh prevails, and sorrows fall, To see the hoard of human bliss so small ; And oft I wish, amidst the scene, to find Some spot to real happiness...
Стр. 133 - Search then the ruling passion: there, alone, The wild are constant, and the cunning known; The fool consistent, and the false sincere; Priests, princes, women, no dissemblers here.
Стр. 10 - Eighth, of whom it was said that " he crept into the popedom like a fox, ruled like a lion, and died like a dog," were principally the sins of avarice.
Стр. 46 - The True History of the Life and Sudden Death of old John Overs, the rich Ferryman of London, showing how he lost his life by his own covetousness. And of his daughter Mary, who caused the Church of St Mary Overs in Southwark to be built ; and of the building of London Bridge.
Стр. 77 - I give and I devise" (old Euclio said, And sigh'd) "my lands and tenements to Ned." Your money, Sir? "My money, Sir! what, all? Why,— if I must— (then wept) I give it Paul.
Стр. 12 - Content is wealth, the riches of the mind; And happy he who can that treasure find. But the base miser starves amidst his store, Broods on his gold, and, griping still at more. Sits sadly pining, and believes he's poor.
Стр. 24 - Having observed from my infancy that the poor of Marseilles are ill supplied with water, which can only be purchased at a great price, I have cheerfully labored the whole of my life to procure for them this great blessing ; and I direct that the whole of my property shall be laid out in building an aqueduct for their use.
Стр. 71 - His thoughts were now how to cheat the oculist ; he pretended that he had only a glimmering, and could see nothing distinctly ; for which reason, the bandage on his eyes was continued a month longer than the usual time. Taylor was deceived by these misrepresentations, and agreed to compound the bargain, and accepted twenty guineas instead of sixty.
Стр. 63 - Some time passed on ; the house in which he had lived was sold, and workmen were busily employed in its repair. In the progress of their work they met with the door of the secret cave, with the key in the lock outside. They threw back the door, and descended with a light. The first object upon which the lamp reflected was the ghastly body of Foscue the miser, and scattered around him were heavy bags of gold, and ponderous chests of untold treasure ; a candlestick lay beside him on the floor. This...