Challenged by a dishonest opponent who envies us the fruit of our peaceful toil, the hands of German men leave their work and grasp the sword.

Our enemy envies us this position because in his land, stupidity and confusion reign supreme; his own uncivilization and barbarism cannot be rooted out.

Spirits, come up! 'tis I that knock for you; One that envies the world far more than you.

H. Ay, that same jealous queen, whose doting age Envies the choice of my fair Marian, She hath a hand in this.

Mother, let me alone; by one and one I will not leave one that envies our good.

"But me no man bewaileth, but in game Ne sheddeth teares from lamentable eie; Nor anie lives that mentioneth my name To be remembred of posteritie, 165 Save one, that maugre Fortunes iniurie, And Times decay, and Envies cruell tort*, Hath writ my record in true-seeming sort.

Who envies him who feeds on air The icy splendors of his seat?

When they have gorgd their envies With what I have, what honest hand in pitty Will powre out to thy wants?

" "A potter emulates a potter: One smith envies another: A beggar emulates a beggar; A singing man his brother.

He loathes and scorns his inferior, hates or emulates his equal, envies his superior, insults over all such as are under him, as if he were of another species, a demigod, not subject to any fall, or human infirmities.

Enraged against his enemies, he rails, swears, fights, slanders, detracts, envies, murders: and for his own part, si appetitum explere non potest, furore corripitur; if he cannot satisfy his desire (as Bodine writes) he runs mad.

" Happy he, in that he is freed from the tumults of the world, he seeks no honours, gapes after no preferment, flatters not, envies not, temporiseth not, but lives privately, and well contented with his estate; "Nec spes corde avidas, nec curam pascit inanem Securus quo fata cadant.

Fix'd and intent on his Irene's charms, He envies none the converse of Aspasia.

that nautical nectar, so dear to the lips of every true-hearted sailor, with which he washes down Her Majesty's junk, as he roughly but good-humoredly styles the government allowance of beef; and while he quaffs off his portion, or his whack, as he calls it, he envies no man alive, and laughs to scorn those party philanthropists who describe his life as one of unhappy servitude.

Then waked tumultuous in th' alarmed breast, Contending passions claim th' etherial guest; And still, as each alternate empire proves, She hopes, she fears, she envies, and she loves; Owns all sensations that deride the span, And eternize the little life of man!

Who envies none whom chance doth raise, Or vice: who never understood How deepest wounds are given with praise; Nor rules of state, but rules of good.

Everybody admires and envies uswants to be in our set.

High swells the joyous bosom, seeming Too narrow for its world of love, Nor envies, in its heaven of dreaming, The heaven of gods above!

Possibly he envies the man who has a front seat and who tells him about it.

A young Man whose Passion and Ambition is to be good and wise, and an old one who has no Inclination to be lewd or debauched, are quite unconcerned in this Speculation; but the Cocking young Fellow who treads upon the Toes of his Elders, and the old Fool who envies the sawcy Pride he sees in him, are the Objects of our present Contempt and Derision.

It is far more secure and imperishable than yours, and no one envies it or plots against it, neither populace nor tyrant: best of all, the larger the number of persons who share it, the greater it will grow.

Very freely I acknowledge that any nation, by proposing to itself large and liberal aims, plucks itself innumerable envies and hatreds from without, and confers new power for mischief upon all blindness and savagery that exist within it.

It is too much to expect, perhaps, in view of facts as they transpire in churches of American ChristiansChristians "to the manner born"that our little groups of Chinese believers born as "aliens from the commonwealth of Israel and strangers to the covenants of promise," should be free from all envies and jealousies, walking always in brotherly love.

I don't suppose this hemlock is cursed by the power of thinking it might have done otherwise, or envies the roses.

The loving nightingale mourns;cause enow for mourning; Why envies the bird the streaming verses of Hafiz? Know that a god bestowed on him eloquent speech.