For I dream I know not how, And my soul is sorely shaken Lest an evil step be taken, - Lest the dead who is forsaken May not be
happy now.
The eyes of the Happy Prince were filled with tears, and tears were running down his golden cheeks.
My courtiers called me the Happy Prince, and happy indeed I was, if pleasure be happiness.
But when they see, as I trust they will, that their brother is
happy with me, they will learn to be contented, and we shall be on good terms again; though we can never be what we once were to each other."
Then the child wondered no longer, but deeper grew her love for the tender-hearted Elves, who left their own
happy home to cheer and comfort those who never knew what hands had clothed and fed them, what hearts had given of their own joy, and brought such happiness to theirs.
Luckily I had sown two great patches of sweetpeas which made me very
happy all the summer, and then there were some sunflowers and a few hollyhocks under the south windows, with Madonna lilies in between.
His age is only so much beyond hers as to be an advantage, as to make his character and principles fixed;--and his disposition, I am well convinced, is exactly the very one to make your sister
happy. And his person, his manners too, are all in his favour.
"Why, how can you be dissatisfied with yourself if you are
happy?"
Oliver looked up at the windows, with tears of
happy expectation coursing down his face.
I wanted you always to be
happy and handsome and successful--to have all the things that a great man ought to have, and, once in a way, the careless holidays that great men are not permitted."
No longer shall her little silken figure flit up and down your quiet staircases, no more deck out your silent rooms with flowers, humming the while some
happy little song.
These shoes possess the property of instantly transporting him who has them on to the place or the period in which he most wishes to be; every wish, as regards time or place, or state of being, will be immediately fulfilled, and so at last man will be
happy, here below."
Happy, thoughtful times there in the old study which Jo called `the church of one member', and from which she came with fresh courage, recovered cheerfulness, and a more submissive spirit.
My aunt informed me how he incessantly occupied himself in copying everything he could lay his hands on, and kept King Charles the First at a respectful distance by that semblance of employment; how it was one of the main joys and rewards of her life that he was free and
happy, instead of pining in monotonous restraint; and how (as a novel general conclusion) nobody but she could ever fully know what he was.
From a variety of causes she was
happy, and she was soon made still happier; for in following her aunts out of the room, Edmund, who was holding open the door, said, as she passed him, "You must dance with me, Fanny; you must keep two dances for me; any two that you like, except the first." She had nothing more to wish for.