The Duties, Advantages, Pleasures, and Sorrows of the Marriage Stateauthor, 1813 - 138 pages |
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Page 95
... light my love can hope ; Midnight will want the joyous Moon . O guardian Spirits ! -Ye that dwell Where woods , and pits , and hollow ways , — The lone night Traveller's fancy swell . With fearful tales of older days , - Press round him ...
... light my love can hope ; Midnight will want the joyous Moon . O guardian Spirits ! -Ye that dwell Where woods , and pits , and hollow ways , — The lone night Traveller's fancy swell . With fearful tales of older days , - Press round him ...
Page 96
... light mine eyes behold : The storm is verging o'er the West . There shines a Star ! -O welcome sight ! - Through the thin vapours bright'ning still ! Yet , ' twas beneath the fairest night The murd❜rer stain'd yon lonely hill . Mercy ...
... light mine eyes behold : The storm is verging o'er the West . There shines a Star ! -O welcome sight ! - Through the thin vapours bright'ning still ! Yet , ' twas beneath the fairest night The murd❜rer stain'd yon lonely hill . Mercy ...
Page 104
... lights . You , my friend , have not yet shared the mother's pleasure , and the mother's pride , when first she taught the 6 little darling to watch the coming in and going 104 Pleasures of the Marriage State continued .
... lights . You , my friend , have not yet shared the mother's pleasure , and the mother's pride , when first she taught the 6 little darling to watch the coming in and going 104 Pleasures of the Marriage State continued .
Page 107
... like a gloomy deluge rise , Then every smiling passion dies , And hope alone with wakeful eyes Darkling and solitary waits the slow returning light . Here then let my ambition rest , May I be Pleasures of the Marriage State continued . 107.
... like a gloomy deluge rise , Then every smiling passion dies , And hope alone with wakeful eyes Darkling and solitary waits the slow returning light . Here then let my ambition rest , May I be Pleasures of the Marriage State continued . 107.
Page 124
... light , and turn'd its eves aside From our dim regions to th ' eternal sun , And led the parent's way to glory ! There Thou art for ever her's , with powers enlarg'd For love , reciprocal and sweet converse . Ah me ! where roves my ...
... light , and turn'd its eves aside From our dim regions to th ' eternal sun , And led the parent's way to glory ! There Thou art for ever her's , with powers enlarg'd For love , reciprocal and sweet converse . Ah me ! where roves my ...
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Page 44 - Happy is the man that hath his quiver full of them : they shall not be ashamed, but they shall speak with the enemies in the gate.
Page 40 - And he lighted upon a certain place, and tarried there all night because the sun was set ; and he took of the stones of that place, and put them for his pillows, and lay down in that place to sleep.
Page 7 - Unargued I obey : so God ordains. God is thy law ; thou, mine : to know no more, Is woman's happiest knowledge, and her praise 1 With thee conversing, I forget all time, All seasons and their change, all please alike.
Page 15 - Whose adorning let it not be that outward adorning of plaiting the hair, and of wearing of gold, or of putting on of apparel; * but let it be the hidden man of the heart, in that which is not corruptible, even the ornament of a meek and quiet spirit, which is in the sight of God of great price.
Page 27 - The world was sad ! — the garden was a wild ! And man, the hermit, sigh'd — till woman smiled...
Page 43 - And the women said unto Naomi, "Blessed be the Lord, which hath not left thee this day without a kinsman, that his name may be famous in Israel. And he shall be unto thee a restorer of thy life and a nourisher of thine old age; for thy daughter-in-law, which loveth thee, which is better to thee than seven sons, hath borne him.
Page 39 - And I will make thee exceeding fruitful, and I will make nations of thee, and kings shall come out of thee.
Page 80 - Before the angel, and of him to ask Chose rather ; he, she knew, would intermix Grateful digressions, and solve high dispute With conjugal caresses : from his lip Not words alone pleased her.
Page 40 - I am the Lord God of Abraham thy father, and the God of Isaac ; the land whereon thou liest, to thee will I give it, and to thy seed: and thy seed shall be as the dust of the earth, and thou shalt spread abroad to the west, and to the east, and to the north, and to the south; and in thee and in thy seed shall all the families of the earth be blessed.
Page 3 - Wives, submit yourselves unto your own husbands, as unto the Lord. For the husband is the head of the wife, even as Christ is the head of the church : and he is the saviour of the body. Therefore as the church is subject unto Christ, so let the wives be to their own husbands in every thing.