...Carisbroke ! you have brought sorrow to the house of sorrow." CHAPTER XIII. THE IMPECUNIOUS HOUSEHOLD. " An idler is a watch that wants both hands ; As useless if it goes as if it stands." " He that steals my purse steals trash ! " DB. INGLEDEW'S predictions were abundantly...

...of her care, Whatever hopes a change of scene inspires, Must change her nature, or in vain retires. An idler is a watch that wants both hands, As useless if it goes, as when it stands. Books therefore, not the scandal of the shelves, In which lewd sensualists print out themselves ; Nor...

...emptiness; the tree in which the sap is stagnant, remains fruitless. k. HOSEA BALLOU— MHS. Sermons. I. COWPEE— Retirement. Idly busy rolls their world away. m. GOLDSMITH— The Travelle r. Line 256....

...her care. Whatever hopes a change of scene inspires, Must change her nature, or in vain retires. Au idler is a watch that wants both hands, As useless if it goes as when it stands. Books, therefore, not the scandal of the shelves, In which lewd sensualists print out themselves; Nor...

...interpose, and the wrath shortly becomes goodhumoured ridicule. Pretty sharp, too — " An idler \з a watch that wants both hands, As useless, if it goes, as when it stands." Again— " There are, who for the bane of.thousancls born Build God a church, and laugh His word to...

...wing that cannot flutter, much less fly, a wing that is useless in every aspect. The poet says — "An idler is a watch that wants both hands; As useless if it goes as when it stands." * The cherubim over the ark are described only in three places in the Old Testament — Exod. xxv....

...on a rack ; the rack of rest, To souls most adverse. 2342 Young : Night Thoughts. Night ii. Line 162 An idler is a watch that wants both hands; As useless if it goes as when it stands. 2343 Cowper : Retirement. Line 681 Absence of occupation is not rest, A mind quite vacant is a mind...

...Absence of occupation is not rest, A mind quite vacant is a mind distressed. Retirement. Line G'23. An idler is a watch that wants both hands, As useless if it goes as if it stands. Line csi. Built God a church, and laughed his word to scorn. Line 688. 1 Compare Johnson....

...refinements of life, without some hateful feelings stirring within him. Seeming, indeed, like — " A watch, that wants both hands, — As useless if it goes as if it stands," such worthless creature appears to him, to violate a moral law, as sacred as the physical,...

...conduct ; ' and those who make this their object of study appear to me to do well." Memorabilia, iii. 9. AN idler is a watch that wants both hands ; As useless if it goes as if it stands. COWPER : Retirement. LOVE Virtue : she alone is free. She can teach you how to climb...