These parties and dinners she could not be induced to forego, although the late hours and fatigue consequent thereon would place her on the sick-list for several days afterwards.

At any rate, he had now to transact with the executors of Julius, who were obliged to forego the rights over Michelangelo's undivided energies which they had acquired by the clause I have just cited.

3. Hence, to forego the possession of one's inheritance, after the division of the paternal domain, or to be restrained from its control, after having acceded to it, was a burden grievous to be borne.

And for that very cause thou must forego it, And so be perfect.

In this delightful retreat, the young Queen and her suite at present reside; and so pacific is our taste, that to enjoy the tranquil scenery of Laleham, and the sports of the stream that waters its park, we would willingly forego all the cares of state, and leave its plots and counterplots to more ambitious minds.

Love alters not for us his hard decrees, Not though beneath the Thracian clime we freeze, Or the mild bliss of temperate skies forego, And in raid winter tread Sithonian snow: Love conquers all.

Were it not for the Chinese, white residents in many countries would have to forego vegetables.

He saw that Hermia disliked him, but that Helena loved him sincerely, so he consented to forego the one and take to wife the other.

But a hectic disorder, that had threatened Mrs. Edgeworth's life while yet a child, now returned upon her with increased virulence; and the kind and beautiful mistress of Edgeworthstown was compelled to forego this and every other earthly avocation.

Of course it may be said in favour of the money-lender that he is obliged to charge these high rates, to cover the extra risk, and that as a rule, he is generally prepared to forego half his legal claim when the time for payment comes.

My future wife insisted that I forego the offer and return to Canada.

The road had become so steep and laborious by this time that Bowles was very glad to forego the pleasure of talking.

The spice of life is battle; the friendliest relations are still a kind of contest; and if we would not forego all that is valuable in our lot, we must continually face some other person, eye to eye, and wrestle a fall whether in love or enmity.

The canons, wishing to avoid the cold winds and the rain, took their daily walk in the galleries of the upper cloister, not wishing to forego this exercise to which their methodical existence had accustomed them.

Can you so little your Orazia prize, To give the conquest to her enemies? Can you so easily forego her sight?

Who, with your life, your freedom would restore, And add to that the crown of Mexico: Would you, for her, Cydaria's love forego?

Thus foolish Indians gold for glass forego; 'Twas to your loss you prized your heart so low.

The clumsy, heavy Empress stepped upon her egg, and broke it in the second week of its existence; but, faithful to its memory, she refused to forego the duties of maternity, and would persist in staying on her nest.

If so, 'tis freely at your service; and it may help you in your present emergencyfor though there is not enough in it to bribe the master to forego his purpose against you, there is amply sufficient to procure your liberation, privily, from the men.

He declared he would rather return to Scotland than forego his amusements.

One may forego the pleasure of fishing if so inclined, and take a sail in the glass-bottom boat, viewing through its transparent bottom the wonders of the mighty deep.

I shall, therefore, forego the pleasure of telling you any occurrences subsequent to this date until you see and converse with your sincere friend, ELIZA WHARTON.

He lives in all the magnificence of a prince: and why should I, who can doubtless share that magnificence if I please, forego the advantages and indulgences it offers, merely to gratify those friends who pretend to be better judges of my happiness than I am myself?

" As "Masaniello" had nearly had its run, and Evelyn was disinclined to see it again, having attended during the winter about twenty representations of this great musical spectacle, I was fain to go with our neighbors and their very youthful escort, or forego my opera.

Then, on the other hand, he could easily frighten Bartley into giving him £5000 to keep dark, but in that case he must forego his vengeance on Hope.

You may, like those afrighted, by degrees Allay your sense of terror in the Object, And then its Power will lesson with your Fear, And 'twill be easy to forgo the Fantasm.

At all events, it constitutes a system which, as the last presidential election showed, the American people will not willingly forgo.

Even a lieutenant-colonel, before commanding a battalion, could go to school once more; and even for officers and men "in rest," there were, and are, endless opportunities of seeing and learning, which few wish to forgo.

"I forgo all the rest," he says, "riches, birth, honor, authority, and all the goods here below of which the charm vanishes like a dream; but I cling to oratory nor do I regret the toil, nor the journeys by land and sea, which I have undertaken to master it."[320]

Any whim, or point of pride, or fixed idea, or old habit, is enough to make a man or a nation forgo the hope of profit and fight for a creed.

Most men would forgo their claim to justice for the chance of being liked.

Then he resolves to break with the past, to put away childish things, to forgo affection, and to earn respect by imitating the activities of his elders.

Though seas and mountains and rough ways divide Our feet asunder, neither frost nor snow Can make the soul her ancient love forgo; Nor chains nor bonds the wings of thought have tied.

If the boys wished him to forgo the delights of that voyage, let 'em pungle up half a millionor get.

The sweetnesse of that banquet must forgo, Whose pleasant tast is chaungde with bitter wo. Ara.

(2) A tendency to forgo the consideration of the immediate issues and to hark back in thought to 1870 or even to the Wars of Liberation.

The Spanish governors felt that no one could with impunity maltreat clients of Cato; and the circumstance that the representatives of the three nations conquered by Paullusthe Spaniards, Ligurians, and Macedonianswould not forgo the privilege of carrying his bier to the funeral pile, was the noblest dirge in honour of that noble man.

" "To feast my long, long famished sight with gazing once more on your charms, I would forgo every thing but the hope of rendering myself one day more worthy of it!Too dear I prize the good wishes you vouchsafe to have for me, not to attempt every thing in my power to prevent the disappointment of them: the little I have yet done, alas!

Ah my dear daughter, would she say frequently to her, how much should I rejoice to find in you a desire to forgo all the transitory fleeting pleasures of the world, and devote yourself entirely to heaven!what raptures would not your innocent soul partake, when wholly devoid of all thought of sensual objects!

It had seemed unlikely ground from which love had first sprung forth, that of a self-worship that could forgo no slightest indulgencebut thence indeed it had come.

*** We are asked to deny the rumour that the KAISER has offered to compete for The Daily Mail trans-Atlantic flight and has offered to forgo the prize.

One Labour paper a month or so ago was contrasting Mr. Asquith's eloquent appeals to the working man to economise and forgo any rise in wages with the photographs that were appearing simultaneously in the smart papers of the very smart marriage of Mr. Asquith's daughter.

He must ask her to forgo these walks homeat least until the next examination.

It was impossible to forgo some further extension of the empire, and very difficult to arrest extension at any satisfactory static point.

The discovery that even magistrates have to forgo their simple pleasures in these times made a profound impression upon the boy.

Those who never rightly appreciated you may imagine that you will meekly consent to forgo that claim.

He offered to go himself to the Rue Daunou at the hour appointed and to do his best to induce M. le Comte de Naquetif indeed he existedto forgo his rights on the lady who had so innocently taken on the name and hand of M. le Marquis de Firmin-Latour.