"Liv" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... Yea truly I was made upright: This truth I never have deni'd, And while I liv'd I lov'd the light, But I transgress'd and then I died. Ye've heard that I transgress'd and fell— This ye have heard ...
— The Communistic Societies of the United States • Charles Nordhoff
... When wonders from the passing hour may spring? There dwelt a Yeoman in the place, whose mind Was gentle, generous, cultivated, kind; For thirty years he labour'd; fortune then Placed the mild rustic with superior men: A richer Stafford who had liv'd to save, What he had treasured to the poorer gave; Who with a sober mind that treasure view'd, And the slight studies of his youth renew'd: He not profoundly, but discreetly read, And a fair mind with ...
— Tales • George Crabbe
... they once dug for money, Where sometimes Martial Miles But never found any; Singly files, And Elijah Wood, I fear for no good: No other man, Save Elisha Dugan,— O man of wild habits, Partridges and rabbits, Who hast no cares Only to set snares, Who liv'st all alone, Close to the bone, And where life is sweetest Constantly eatest. When the spring stirs my blood With the instinct to travel I can get enough gravel On the Old Marlborough Road. Nobody repairs it, For nobody wears ...
— Harvard Classics Volume 28 - Essays English and American • Various
... a bold Man, and will risk any thing for Money; to be sure he believes her a Fortune. Do you think your Mother and I should have liv'd comfortably so long together, if ever we had ...
— The Beggar's Opera • John Gay
... Bellamora if her Parents were living, and the Occasion of her coming to Town. The fair unthinking Creature reply'd, that her Father and Mother were both dead; and that she had escap'd from her Uncle, under the pretence of making a Visit to a young Lady, her Cousin, who was lately married, and liv'd above twenty Miles from her Uncle's, in the Road to London, and that the Cause of her quitting the Country, was to avoid the hated Importunities of a Gentleman, whose pretended Love to her she fear'd had been her ...
— The Works of Aphra Behn - Volume V • Aphra Behn
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