 | Letitia Elizabeth Landon - 1837 - 340 pages
...affectionate HENRIETTA. CHAPTER II. / PUBLISHING. .' Life's smallest miseries are, perhaps, its worst : Great sufferings have great strength : there is a...that braves the worst, And bears proud in the bearing ; but the heart Consumes with those small sorrows, and small shames, Which crave, yet cannot ask for... | |
 | mrs. E J Burbury - 1851 - 306 pages
...truth is there in these lines of Miss Landon : — Life's smallest miseries are perhaps its worst. Great sufferings have great strength. — There is a pride In the bold energy that hraves the worst, And bears, proud in the bearing ; but the heart Consumes with those small sorrows,... | |
 | Jane Frazee Fairfield, Sumner Lincoln Fairfield - 1860 - 354 pages
...There is nothing in marriage," he replied, " that can. supply the want of affection, and you surely can not love the man who enforces on you such exposure...braves the worst, And bears proud in the bearing." 11 I was philosophical by nature, and therefore had not to become so, with my husband's keen feelings... | |
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Life's smallest miseries are, perhaps, its worst : Great sufferings have great strength : there is a pride In the bold energy that braves the worst, And bears proud in the bearing ; but the heart Consumes with those small sorrows, and small shames, Which... 