I willbut 'tis as Misers part with Gold, Or People full of Health depart from Life.

Love wakes the dull from sluggish Ease, And learns a Clown the Art to please: Humbles the Vain, kindles the Cold, Makes Misers free, and Cowards bold.

The stones they cast I caught And alchemized with thought Into such lumps of gold As dreaming misers hold.

But if all this anger grow From this cause, that you suspect By proceedings indirect, I would keep (as misers pelf) All this learning to myself; Sister, to remove this doubt, Rather than we will fall out, (If our parents will agree)

Here every foundling finds its lost mamma; Each rogue, repentant, melts his stern papa; Misers relent, the spendthrift's debts are paid, The cheats are taken in the traps they laid; One after one the troubles all are past

But amid it all he remained very gentle, and, unlike most misers, continued very cleanly in his habits, keeping his beard, which was now white as snow, very carefully tended.

" Half of these stories about the prodigious fortunes made by begging are (I verily believe) misers' calumnies.

'Let me see now:I do not know the instances of misers in England, so as to examine into their influence.'

'We have had few misers in England.'

We are brought to see an unusual number of misers, harpies, quacks, cheats, and hypocrites.

We recall the misers we have scorned, and the hypocrites whom we have detested.

If love but learned how soon life treads its measure, How short and swift its hours when all is told, Each kiss and tender word 'twould count and treasure, As misers count their gold.

" "Misers make Anticyra their own; Its hellebore reserved for them alone.

Misers will visit you at times, and beautiful ladies in mourning deep as their distress; and from your desk you will catch a glimpse of the sombre pageantry of litigious man.

Hence it was that some of the Ancients imagined, that as Men in this Life inclined more to the Angel or Brute, so after their Death they should transmigrate into the one or the other: and it would be no unpleasant Notion, to consider the several Species of Brutes, into which we may imagine that Tyrants, Misers, the Proud, Malicious, and Ill-natured might be changed.

Rank may be conferred by princes, and wealth bequeathed by misers or by robbers; but the honours of a lasting name, and the veneration of distant ages, only the sons of learning have the power of bestowing.

The hall is at least a protest against the wearisome stories concerning wills, misers in old castles, lost heirs, and the woeful solutions of such thingsshe who has been kept in the castle cellar for twenty years restored to the delights of hair-pins and a mauve dress, the ingénue to the protecting arm, etc.

for both not used Are of little worth; then treasure is abused, When misers keep it; being put to loan, In time it will return us two for one.

Till you can sing and rejoice and delight in God, as misers do in gold, and Kings in sceptres, you never enjoy the world.

It must be admitted that no person desires money for its own sake, (unless some very rare cases of misers be an exception,) and that he who sells his commodity, receiving money in exchange, does so with the intention of buying with that same money some other commodity.

Departing misers bear a nobler mind; They, when they can enjoy no more, are kind; You, when your love is dying in despair, Yet want the charity to make an heir.

Many of the subjects are purely conventional, such as those of the early poems on the loves of the shepherds, the historical panegyrics and laments, and the satire on rich misers.

Misers are not happy people.

"My friend," he said, shrugging his shoulders and indicating the crowd in front, "I quite agree with you, but what are we two against so many?" MISERS

It was the monks who were the spendthrifts of happiness, and we who are its misers.