Such was "Merrie England" on the accession of Elizabeth to the throne,a rude nation of feudal nobles, rural squires, and ignorant people, who toiled for a mere pittance on the lands of cold, unsympathetic masters; without books, without schools, without privileges, without rights, except to breathe the common air and indulge in coarse pleasures and religious holidays and village fêtes.

"There are other ways in which I can at least earn as much as the miserable pittance doled out to me here.

wretched pittance,) did I not live in an alley.

It is only by fits and starts that the poor drunken wretch, living in a garret upon a little pittance allowed him by his relations, who was once a man of character and hope, feels what a sad pitch he has come to.

When Mathieu entered the house, which displayed eight lofty windows on each of the stories of its ornate Renaissance facade, he laughed lightly as he thought: "These folks don't have to wait for a monthly pittance of three hundred francs, with just thirty sous in hand.

Our object is to find work for these workless multitudes, and such work as shall more than pay for the very humble pittance the Indian destitute requires.

And yet, though condemned alike to this, the last indignity which man can inflict on his fellow, the two proscribed classes furnish a melancholy proof of the waywardness of human passions and prejudice, by refusing to share in common the scanty pittance of earth which bigotry has allowed for their everlasting repose!

Not so the heartless pittance of the affluent, That is hypocrisy.

But I've got one good one practically for an annual pittance.

" =321.= PLEASURES OF IMAGINATION. Is my lonely pittance past?

She did not love him, nor had she any hopes that he would of his own free will do more than give her a bare pittance for her needs once he had secured Lady Sue's fortune; but she was shrewd enough to reckon that the more completely she was mixed up in his nefarious projects, the more absolutely forced would he be to accede to her demands later on.

They differ from leaders of other countries, who divide the average pittances of success or ill success on the road to honored retirement.

The younger son, Murray, who had devoted the best years of his life to being a friend and companion to his father, while Percival ran after ballet-dancers and music-hall starsMurray, who had avowedly been the apple of his father's eye in consequencewas left with a miserly pittance of £300 a year, and no share whatever in the gigantic business of Brooks & Sons, bacon curers, of Dublin.

v. 241, et seq.] was scarcely able to satisfy the more importunate of his creditors, and to dole out an occasional pittance to his more immediate followers.

He is nursed, if he can be said to be nursed at all, on a coarse, scanty and precarious pittance; holds life only as a tenant at will; combats from the first dawnings of intellect with insolence, cold and nakedness; is originally taught to beg and to steal; is driven from the doors of men by the porter or the house dog; and is regarded as an alien from the family of Adam.

But if ever he recover this mony againbefore, Diego, And get some pretty pittance: my Pupill's hungry.

It was not long after, doubtless, that Smart fell lower still, and let himself out on a lease for ninety-nine years, to toil for a set pittance in the garrets of Gardner's shop; and it was about this time, 1754, that the Rev. T. Tyers was introduced to Smart by a friend who had more sympathy with his frailties than Gray had, namely, Dr. Samuel Johnson.

For each beloved hour Sharp pittances of years, Bitter contested farthings And coffers heaped with tears.

The widow must live on her slender pittance, or on such aid as Joseph could give her.

In yonder proud city a home awaits him, where he can earn a slight pittance, to keep them from starving.

The profits of the Hendrik Athenæum and Circulating Library accrued in slow and slender pittances.

Religious by instinct, obedient to discipline, skilled in handicrafts, inured to hardship, and accustomed to support life on the scantiest conceivable pittance, we cannot imagine a more fitting object for our pity, nor a more encouraging one for our effort, than the members of India's "submerged tenth.

He is nursed, if he can be said to be nursed at all, on a coarse, scanty and precarious pittance; holds life only as a tenant at will; combats from the first dawnings of intellect with insolence, cold and nakedness; is originally taught to beg and to steal; is driven from the doors of men by the porter or the house dog; and is regarded as an alien from the family of Adam.

" The whole slope in front of the hut was a trickle of water, threading the dying stalks of dock and ragwort, and hurrying down to add its dirty pittance to the small yellow torrent rushing along the greasy strip of clay that in happier days was the path.

Our French editor thinks that the Imperial revenues ought to be doubled at once, on the ground of the too evident Income-pittance of the Emperor.