 After a grateful commemoration of the fifty-five years of union and happiness which he enjoyed with Mabel his wife, the good earl thus speaks from the tomb : What we gave, we have ; What we spent, we had ; What we left, we lost...  The Beauties of England and Wales, Or, Delineations, Topographical ... - Стр. 83авторы: John Britton, Edward Wedlake Brayley, Joseph Nightingale, James Norris Brewer, John Evans, John Hodgson, Francis Charles Laird, Frederic Shoberl, John Bigland, Thomas Rees - 1803Полный просмотр - Подробнее о книге
 | Jehiel Keeler Hoyt, Anna Lydia Ward - 1882 - Страниц: 926
...Because his painted bkin contents the eye? ,/. Танина of the Shrew. Act IV. Sc. 3. COMPENSATION. What we gave, we have: What we spent, we had : What we left, we lost, Л. Epitaph of Edward, Earl of Devon. 0 -weary hearts! О slumbering eyes! 0 drooping souls, whose... | |
 | Familiar quotations - 1883 - Страниц: 942
...boys. IbiJ. He that wold not when he might, lie shall not when he wolda.2 Ibid. The Bnjled Kniyht. What we gave, we have ; What we spent, we had ; What we left, we lost. Epitaph of Edward Covrtenny, Earl of Devonshire. From Cleavelund's Genealoyicai Ilutory of the Family... | |
 | 1887 - Страниц: 1332
...oven you may give a bit of your cake. , 93. What thou givest that shalt thou take with thee. Turk. 94. What we gave we have, what we spent we had, what we left we lost. Epitaph of Edward, Earl of Devon. 95. What you give is written in sand, what you take with an iron... | |
 | William Francis Henry King - 1887 - Страниц: 630
...for ever yours. — Hay. Cf. the Epitaph of Edward, Earl of Devon (f 1419), and of Mabel his wife : What we gave, we have, What we spent, we had, What we left, we lost. 1583. Extrema gaudii luctus occupât. (L.) î And sorrow treads upon the heels of joy. 1584. Extremis... | |
 | William Jackson - 1892 - Страниц: 422
...have rarely flourished so far as wealth is concerned, and their melancholy mottoes — one being : " What we gave we have, What we spent we had, What we left we lost—" the other, " Ubi lapsus quid feci — " are fitting comments on their story. Cicely, the eldest daughter... | |
 | John Lubbock - 1894 - Страниц: 336
...it tendeth to poverty." The well-known epitaph on Edward Courtenay, Earl of Devonshire, says — " What we gave, we have ; What we spent, we had ; What we left, we lost." Or, as another version of the same idea has it — "What I saved, I lost; What I spent, I had ; What... | |
 | Edward Boucher James - 1896 - Страниц: 714
...good,' and of his wife Mabel with whom he had lived in fifty-five years of quiet happiness : — ' What we gave, we have ; What we spent, we had ; What we left, we lost.' The great Countess might have spoken the same from her tomb in that Abbey of Breamore in Hampshire... | |
 | 1896 - Страниц: 1224
...Honors come by diligence; riches spring from economy. n. JOHN FRANCIS DAVIS — Chinese Moral Maxims. oyt o. Epitaph of Edward, Earl of Devon. 'Tis toil's reward, that sweetens industry, As love inspires with... | |
 | Orison Swett Marden - 1897 - Страниц: 582
...its blighting influence. The following epitaph was placed upon the tomb of Edward (the Good) : — " What we gave, we have ; What we spent, we had ; What we left, we lost." " There is that scattereth, and yet increaseth ; and there is that withholdeth more than is meet, but... | |
 | Henry Harrison Metcalf, John Norris McClintock - 1898 - Страниц: 388
...oh, for sweet charity, and the good that it can do. You remember the epitaph of Edward Courtenay : " What we gave we have, What we spent we had, What we left we lost." The fire had died out on the hearth, the moonbeams stole in through the half-opened shutters, the soft,... | |
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