frowns of fortune
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While I was thus employed, I reflected with exultation upon the degree in which man is independent of the smiles and frowns of fortune.
From Caleb Williams Or Things as They Are by Godwin, William
He has met the frowns of fortune like a gentleman—like a man.
From A Terrible Temptation A Story of To-Day by Reade, Charles
No frowns of fortune has my soul to dread.
From Poems on various subjects, religious and moral by Wheatley, Phillis
And those good offices interchanged between man and man, to which life owes many of its comforts in a less advanced state of society, and which protect individuals from the frowns of fortune, gradually disappear.
From An Inquiry into the Permanent Causes of the Decline and Fall of Powerful and Wealthy Nations. Designed To Shew How The Prosperity Of The British Empire May Be Prolonged by Playfair, William
Beside these they have a variety of poetic works, abounding rather with moral reflections and complaints of the frowns of fortune or of ill-requited love than with flights of fancy.
From The History of Sumatra Containing An Account Of The Government, Laws, Customs And Manners Of The Native Inhabitants by Marsden, William
