The Duties, Advantages, Pleasures, and Sorrows of the Marriage Stateauthor, 1813 - 138 pages |
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... smiling and beseeching me by her looks . She then said aloud , what my conscience had whispered to me : Give to him that asketh thee , and do not turn away from him who would borrow of thee : I smiled , asking her archly , whether she ...
... smiling and beseeching me by her looks . She then said aloud , what my conscience had whispered to me : Give to him that asketh thee , and do not turn away from him who would borrow of thee : I smiled , asking her archly , whether she ...
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... smile , and each design Prospers , as blest of Heaven since thou art mine ; Since Daphne first to Mycon's bower was led , Content and peace have blest his humble shed . From thee all good a twofold charm derives , My crops increase , my ...
... smile , and each design Prospers , as blest of Heaven since thou art mine ; Since Daphne first to Mycon's bower was led , Content and peace have blest his humble shed . From thee all good a twofold charm derives , My crops increase , my ...
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... smiles shall cheer our life's decline . O when at close of day to this lov'd home , Tired with the labours of the field I come ; How swells my bosom at these jocund cries Of infant mirth that from my threshold rise ; How sweet your ...
... smiles shall cheer our life's decline . O when at close of day to this lov'd home , Tired with the labours of the field I come ; How swells my bosom at these jocund cries Of infant mirth that from my threshold rise ; How sweet your ...
Page 91
... smiling offspring rises round , And mingles both their graces . By degrees , The human blossom blows ; and every day , Soft as it rolls along , shows some new charm , The father's lustre , and the mother's bloom . Then infant reason ...
... smiling offspring rises round , And mingles both their graces . By degrees , The human blossom blows ; and every day , Soft as it rolls along , shows some new charm , The father's lustre , and the mother's bloom . Then infant reason ...
Page 93
... smile of love , the friendly tear , The sympathetic glow ;. Long since this world's thorny ways Had number'd out my weary days , Had it not been for you ! Fate still has blest me with a friend , In Pleasures of the Marriage State ...
... smile of love , the friendly tear , The sympathetic glow ;. Long since this world's thorny ways Had number'd out my weary days , Had it not been for you ! Fate still has blest me with a friend , In Pleasures of the Marriage State ...
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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.