"Ha ha ha, you want to know how much it is first, you old miser!"

191, 192, n. 2; King, Dr. William, i. 279, n. 5; 'Lord, his parts pretty well for a,' iii. 35; Lowther the miser, v. 112, n. 4; Malagrida, iv.

The Poets have, from time immemorial, claimed a kind of exclusive jurisdiction over the sin of avarice: but, unfortunately, minds once steeled by this vice are not often sensible to the attacks of ridicule; and I have never heard that any poet, from Plautus to Moliere, has reformed a single miser.

[Footnote 3: A noted miser, who raised a great fortune as a merchant at Venice, though his whole wealth, when he went thither, consisted in one of those vast wigs (a second-hand one, given to him) which were worn in the reign of Queen Anne, and which he sold for five guineas.

She said to herself: "I am getting quite a miser," with the assured reservation: "Of course I can stop being a miser whenever I feel like stopping.

Old Honeycutt is as greedy a miser as ever gloated over a pile of hoardings.

One may hate a true miser, but cannot, I suspect, so easily despise him.

Has money, too, I believe; rich grandmother; old lady buried alive in Westmoreland; horrid old miser.'

Having thus performed the promise to my friend, I increased my own wealth, and kept up the reputation of the purse by going on with my robberies, and so impoverished the rich misers, that some of them were glad to receive a morsel of food from the beggars to whom they had formerly refused help, and who were now enriched by my liberality.

" "You mean to be a miser, then?" "If to save money makes one a miser, then I shall be one.

Instantly the fierce whirlwind overtook the miser.

it is the part of those who govern To play the miser with their present good For fear of future ill.

But accumulation for its own sake produces the miser.

" To cajole Don Antolin was a far more arduous task, and the poor little curate suffered much in his endeavours to propitiate the miser, who was irritated if his miserable loans were not repaid at the proper time.

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

We saw the old miser (miser's) sitting alone in front of his hut.

stulti est manere in vita cum sit miser. 2774.

At length the final bell rings, and this cordial representative of all that is amiable in human breasts steps fortha miser.

But the storm and clouds do not inversely so readily suggest the miser.

'But philosophers and satirists have all treated a miser as contemptible.'

MISERS, contemptible philosophically, v. 112; few in England, v. 112; must be miserable, iii. 322; no man born a miser, iii.

, Where Nino sits before his book and broods, Thin and brow-burdened with some fine distress, Some gloom that hangs about his mournful moods His weary bearing and neglected dress: So sad he sits, nor ever turns a leaf Sorrow's pale miser o'er his hoard of grief.

The assiduity with which he amassed wealth, coupled with his abstemious habits, and his old knee-breeches patched all overand still to be seen in the collegestrongly bespoke the miser; while his contributions to public works, and his liberal transactions in money matters, led to an opposite conclusion; and from his noble conduct during the yellow fever it is reasonable to infer he was a humane man.

"But, for the rest, I can confidently assure you that you will not find a miser in M. le Comte de Nolé de St. Pris.