 | Lady Maria Callcott, William Yates - 1824 - 560 pages
...arrived for completing his revenge. Nor were they alone the objects of his anger. To the jealous, " trifles light as air are confirmations strong as proofs of holy writ;" and I have no doubt that his jealousy of Lord Cochrane was increased to that fury which afterwards broke... | |
 | Ann Baker Carson - 1838 - 424 pages
...young woman whose husband's optics are discoloured by this green-eyed monster jealousy ; "for then trifles light as air are confirmations strong as proofs of holy writ." Again, at intervals, all our former quarrels were renewed, and I was again in my own defence compelled... | |
 | Mrs. Gordon Smythies - 1848 - 380 pages
...a penniless beauty, whom you have surrounded with every luxury, and made the mother of your heir f There was a good deal more in this strain, and absurd,...the? half-hour Ada spent at her toilet, that Fitzopal v 5 , .and Smiley felt certain that he was suffering from the acu-punctuation of jealousy; and Adolphus,... | |
 | Herbert Spencer - 1851 - 492 pages
...slightingly the most conclusive adverse evidence, whilst, in urging the goodness of its own cause, " trifles light as air are confirmations strong as proofs of Holy Writ" — whoever has marked this, can hardly doubt that, in the deliberations of such an one, the prospect... | |
 | Julius Charles Hare - 1852 - 368 pages
...land to land. In this state, as we are told by one who well knew the perversities of human nature, " trifles light as air Are confirmations strong As proofs of Holy Writ." Hence it is not to be wondered at, if certain recent events in our Church, of considerable importance... | |
 | Julius Charles Hare - 1856 - 376 pages
...land to land. In this state, as we are told by one who well knew the perversities of human nature, " trifles light as air Are confirmations strong As proofs of Holy Writ." Hence it is not to be wondered at, if certain recent events in our Church, of considerable importance... | |
 | Julius Charles Hare - 1856 - 386 pages
...land to land. In this state, as we are told by one who well knew the perversities of human nature, " trifles light as air Are confirmations strong As proofs of Holy Writ." Hence it is not to be wondered at, if certain recent events in our Church, of considerable importance... | |
 | Herbert Spencer - 1868 - 544 pages
...slightingly the most conclusive adverse evidence, whilst, in urging the goodness of KB own cause, " trifles light as air are confirmations strong as proofs of Holy Writ " — whoever has marked this, can hardly doubt that, in the deliberations of such an one, the prospect... | |
 | Eleanor Grace O'Reilly - 1883 - 360 pages
...of our very simple pleasures and axlventures as girls at Dinglefield. CHAPTER VII. OUB GOVERNESS. " Trifles light as air are . . . confirmations strong As proofs of Holy Writ."— Othello. "WE are to be finished," said Jessie one evening at tea-time. She said it quite suddenly,... | |
 | C H. Payne - 1884 - 376 pages
...twenty provinces under him, and the eyes of a thousand jealous persons turned toward him — to whom "Trifles, light as air, Are . . . confirmations strong As proofs of Holy Writ," and not one fault at which the most contemptible critic of them all can puff a breath of censure ! There... | |
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In this state, as we are told by one who well knew the perversities of human nature, " trifles light as air Are confirmations strong As proofs of Holy Writ." Hence it is not to be wondered at, if certain recent events in our Church, of considerable importance... 
