"Unthrift" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... their unbelief, Knowing in vain my own free heaven beyond. O God! this world, so crammed with eager life, That comes and goes and wanders back to silence Like the idle wind, which yet man's shaping mind Can make his drudge to swell the longing sails Of highest endeavor,—this mad, unthrift world, Which, every hour, throws life enough away 30 To make her deserts kind and hospitable, Lets her great destinies be waved aside By smooth, lip-reverent, formal infidels, Who weigh the God they not believe with gold, And find no spot in Judas, ...
— The Complete Poetical Works of James Russell Lowell • James Lowell
... NEGROES, SLAVERY, SOUTH, SLAVE TRADE), Africa source of, 5; indolence and unthrift of, 5; Virginia taxes, 6; foundation of aristocracy in Virginia and Carolinas, 6; unprofitable as laborers in New Eng., 6; Virginia and Maryland forbid importation of, 9; Jefferson proposes plan for gradual emancipation of, 9; Virginia passes law regulating ...
— The Negro and the Nation - A History of American Slavery and Enfranchisement • George S. Merriam
... quoth our king, I tell you, Sir, by the roode. "Then thou playest, as many an unthrift doth, And standest ...
— Book of Old Ballads • Selected by Beverly Nichols |
