These awfully good people who fully realize how hard they have always tried to do right, are the unhappiest people in the worldunless I except Tom, Dick, Harry and Fan, the victims of these self-righteous reformers.

We have from all sides similar testimony to the personal beauty which led the unhappiest of his devotees to exclaim, "That pale face is my fate!

"He lived and was the unhappiest wretch in existence.

But I, unhappiest, have beheld the same, And, seeing it, yet feel th'exceeding grief That slays my heart with horror of that thought: Which grief commands me to obey my rage,

He had the unhappiest knack (as all geniuses have) of seeing connections, humorous or awful, between the most seemingly antipodal things; of illustrating every subject from three or four different spheres which it is anathema to mention in the same page.

It was more than a week since I had seen them; in fact, we had not met since the morning of that unhappiest day of my life.

it was the unhappiest moment of his life.

The two unhappiest of Italian poets, Tasso and Dante, were the two most superstitious.

I was now set up as a Guinea trader, and made up my mind to go the same voyage again in the same ship; but this was the unhappiest voyage ever man made, for as we were off the African shore we were surprised by a Moorish rover of Salee, who gave chase with all sail.

Belgium under Berlin rule would be, I am sure, Alsace and Lorraine all over again on a larger scale, and an unhappier one.

You won't go, SirI hope you won't!I am the unhappiest man in the world!You won't goyet, alas!But you won't go, Sir!there may be yet hopes that Lady Betty may have some weight Capt.

It is not unpleasant to see a Fellow after grown old in Attendance, and after having passed half a Life in Servitude, call himself the unhappiest of all Men, and pretend to be disappointed because a Courtier broke his Word.

Leslie's passage through the world was of that equal temper which is happiest for the man and unhappiest for the biographer.

This was the unhappiest voyage that ever man made; for though I did not carry quite £100 of my new-gained wealth, so that I had £200 left, and which I lodged with my friend's widow, who was very just to me, yet I fell into terrible misfortunes in this voyage; and the first was this, viz.

I am the unhappiest girl alive!" Chapter Eleven Virginia did not sleep at all that night.

The Warden Few English men of letters have had an unhappier childhood than Anthony Trollope.

"I have no memory of you I would rub out, no, not the unhappiest one, for it was you, and that makes it dear.

Is not the lover's purity of imagination, though real as a feeling, a romantic illusion, since he craves ultimate possession of her and would be the unhappiest of mortals if she went to a nunnery, though she promised to love him always?

Few incidents during my unhappiest years are more vividly or circumstantially impressed upon my memory.

After I had lived over again the trials and the tortures of my unhappiest yearswhich was of course necessary in ploughing and harrowing a memory happily retentivethe completion of this first draft left me exhausted.

and I run to each other; I am loaded and delivering the things to her, when my Lady says she wants none of all these things, and we are the dullest Creatures in the World, and she the unhappiest Woman living, for she shan't be dress'd in any time.

It is not unpleasant to see a Fellow after grown old in Attendance, and after having passed half a Life in Servitude, call himself the unhappiest of all Men, and pretend to be disappointed because a Courtier broke his Word.

But this censure will be mitigated, when it is seriously considered, that money and time are the heaviest burdens of life, and that the unhappiest of all mortals are those who have more of either than they know how to use.

Thy love has made me one of the happiest and, at the same time, one of the unhappiest of men; at my age I need a quiet, steady lifebut is that possible in our situation?

Ablest but unhappiest of all his house, he was an instinctive democrat, sincerely solicitous for the welfare of the plain people, but incredibly cruel and faithless when the dark mood seized him.