 | 1818 - 498 páginas
...a " snug manse" and a " good glebe." "'Nay,' said he, 'Will, you are wrong : rather say, ' There is a tide in the affairs of men, That, taken at the flood,...per annum, a snug manse, and a good glebe ? No, my near fellow, this would have }>ecn burying my talent in the earth, as you are doing : I have made some... | |
 | Ann Julia Hatton - 1822 - 312 páginas
...had a great passion for dramatic poetry. He well remembered Shakespeare's assertion — " There is a tide in the affairs of men, that, taken at the flood, leads on to fortune." How could he tell but this might be the tide of his affairs ? At any rate, he determined... | |
 | William Hayley - 1823 - 510 páginas
...by a manager. It may, in the end, " be better than mere flattery ; as Shakspeare says, " ' There is a tide in the affairs of men, " ' That taken at the flood leads on to fortune. ' " I will not lose this appearance of a most unexpected and " prosperous tide, by any negligence... | |
 | Charles Henry Knox - 1842 - 968 páginas
...have got into a Gaol, and the interest of the tale commences. Now is the ball at our loot'. " There is a tide in the affairs of men, That, taken at the flood, leads on to fortune.' The ride of taste in modern novels is loaded with the outpourings of the sewers, and now,... | |
 | Knox (Captain, Charles Henry) - 1843 - 474 páginas
...for his glory was not guite complete until Lady Madelaine arrived : he evidently thought, " There is a tide in the affairs of men, That taken at the flood, leads on to fortune/' and as clearly considered that his tide was at the flood, spring-tides and a lee-shore into... | |
 | Charles Henry Knox - 1845 - 112 páginas
...a license to marry an heiress, and a curacy a firman for a choice among beauties, so strong did the 'tide, in the affairs of men, that taken at the flood leads on to FORTUNE,' set in that direction. But the fair Pythonesses, .somewhat ran away with the subject, the... | |
 | 1846 - 484 páginas
...friends far away. Let us drink to the year that is fled ! THE RAILROAD HEIRESS. BY MKS. A BUY. " THERE is a tide in the affairs of men, that, taken at the flood, leads on to fortune :" so says Shakspeare, and so have I experienced ; my bark is launched on a river which, like... | |
 | 1847 - 526 páginas
...religion's vacant place With hollow form, and gesture, and grimace. COWPER. CHANCE — FORTUNE. There is a tide in the affairs of men, That, taken at the flood, leads on to fortune ; Omitted, all the voyage of their life Is bound in shallows and in miseries. 3. 'Will fortune... | |
 | 1847 - 540 páginas
...religion's vacant place With hollow form, and gesture, and grimace. COWPER. CHANCE — FORTUNE. 1. There is a tide in the affairs of men, That, taken at the flood, leads on to fortune ; Omitted, all the voyage of their life Is bound in shallows and in miseries. 2. Will fortune... | |
 | George Frederick Pardon - 1858
...dice — given, the number of chances that fall to the lot of sanguine individuals who wait for the " Tide in the affairs of men, That, taken at the flood, leads on to fortune." ODDS. — What are they, so long as you are happy ? DIE.— A cube of spotted ivory, and... | |
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There is a tide in the affairs of men, That, taken at the flood, leads on to fortune ; Omitted, all the voyage of their life Is bound in shallows and in miseries. 
