A pauper in the midst of wealth.
The drunkard is convicted by his praises of wine.
No man ever reached to excellence in any one art or profession without having passed through the slow and painful process of study and preparation.
The snow has at last melted, the fields regain their herbage, and the trees their leaves.
Let your character be kept up the very end, just as it began, and so be consistent.
The work you are treating is one full of dangerous hazard, and you are treading over fires lurking beneath treacherous ashes.