 ... upon involving all his characters, good and bad alike, in the final holocaust. The trouble with this even-handed justice is that it is manifestly untrue. When at the end of Congreve's tragedy, The Mourning Bride (1697), the hero regards the lifeless...  Les chevaliers du cygne: ou, La cour de Charlemagne - Page 208by Stéphanie Félicité Ducrest de Saint-Aubin comtesse de Genlis (afterwards marquise de Sillery) - 1805Full view - About this book
 | Conduct of life - 1820 - 132 pages
...(ivciyii i\vn with jamiiiuc anil liiHKVMurk ///,/.- a. ROSEttlAY LODGE; ou, DOMESTIC VICISSITUDES. " For blessings ever wait on virtuous deeds, And, tho' a late, a sure reward succeeds." HOWE. PRINTED AND PUBLISHED BY T. HARVEY, BLACKFRIARS KOAD ; Ami may be had of all Booksellers.... | |
 | Christian ethics - 1883 - 296 pages
...in doing good. Still in the paths of honour persevere, And not from past or present ills despair ; For blessings ever wait on virtuous deeds, And tho' a late, a sure reward succeeds. Money must first be scraped together, and afterwards, forsooth, virtue and all that is amiable... | |
 | Sir Winston Churchill - Maryland - 1899 - 876 pages
...Paul; "a sight of you is to have Richard's whole life revealed And what says Mr. Congreve? — " ' For blessings ever wait on virtuous deeds, And tho' a late, a sure reward succeeds,' Tho' I would not have you believe that my deed was virtuous. And you, who know Richard,... | |
 | Comparative linguistics - 1915 - 518 pages
...l Whose Virtue has renounc'd thy Father's Crimes, Seest thou, how just the Hand of Heav'n has been? For Blessings ever wait on virtuous Deeds ; And tho' a late, a sure Reward succeeds." Moreover, poetic justice is observed in the play. Virtue is rewarded and vice punished as... | |
 | Deirdre Le Faye - Biography & Autobiography - 2004 - 412 pages
...Northanger Abbey: Despair of nothing that you would obtain Unwearied diligence your point will gain Great blessings ever wait on virtuous deeds And tho' a late a sure reward succeeds.54 In later years Jane and Cassandra were able to pay dressmakers to make up their chosen... | |
 | Jane Austen - Fiction - 2006 - 25 pages
...couplet first mentioned in chapter 2, but continues with a reference to some further lines: 'Great blessings ever wait on virtuous deeds / And tho' a late a sure reward succeeds.' Mrs Allen's sure, or just, reward, turns out to be the 'great blessing' of renewing acquaintance... | |
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