"They would have wished that this small gift might help you bring a ray of hope to an unlucky or impoverished family," he wrote, "a homeless person, or a seriously ill or elderly person mired in the darkness of their misfortune through no fault of their own".
He wrote, Although I support the move towards political integration in Europe, I think that the Maastricht proposals as they stand are seriously defective, and also that public discussion of them has been curiously impoverished….
Many persons in Bangladesh, especially the impoverished, do not access the formal healthcare system, even when seriously ill (33, 34 ).
Relatively impoverished though Puglia may be, the Pugliese take their alimento very seriously indeed.
Perhaps our minds exist in a non-spatial Platonic realm, or are otherwise non-spatial, but Cavendish is asking that we take seriously the possibility that the language of moving minds might only be unusual against the background of an impoverished conception of matter.
The extract gives you a flavour, and note the rhetorical throat-clearing of "as it were", the progression of impossibilities (other people, nature, himself) the audacious proposal that harmony with oneself is morally impoverished, and you begin to get the idea; you also get the idea that Tim Wilkinson is a seriously good translator.
But the tranquillity of the verse was not reflected in everyday life; by the time the pair were living, impoverished, in London (they took to placing desperate ads for their services as French tutors), the relationship had seriously frayed.
Both communities were impoverished.
