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The Duties, Advantages, Pleasures, and Sorrows of the Marriage State - Page 27
by John Ovington - 1813 - 138 pages
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The Hermit in Philadelphia: Second Series ...

Robert Waln - 1821 - 240 pages
...woman is the fairy form that delights and brightens the visions of our youth; — we feel that • The world was sad — the garden was a wild, And man the hermit mourned till woman smiled;' we gaze upon her as upon a superior being; — we honour her as the last,...
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The Pleasures of Hope: With Other Poems

Thomas Campbell - 1822 - 166 pages
...slow wheeling from the deep ; In vain, to soothe the solitary shade, Aerial. notes in mingling measure play'd; The summer wind that shook the spangled tree,...wild ! And man, the hermit, sigh'd — till woman smiled ! True, the sad power to generous hearts may bring Delirious anguish on his fiery wing ; Barr'd...
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The Pleasures of Human Life, Examined and Enumerated: With an Entertaining ...

John Platts - 1822 - 844 pages
...slow-wheeling from the deep ; In vain to soothe the solitary shade, Aerial notes in mingling measure play'd, The summer wind that shook the spangled tree,...pass'd the melancholy day, And still the stranger wistnot where to stray, The world was sad, the garden was a wild, And man, the hermit, sigh'd — till...
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The Repository of Arts, Literature, Fashions &c

1826 - 470 pages
...woman — without whom society would be divested of half its charms, the world would be a blank. " The world was sad, the garden was a wild, And man, the hermit, sighed till woman smil'd." So said or sung Campbell ; and his 08 TUK MTKRAKY COTERIE. Pleaturet of...
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Justina: Or, The Will. A Domestic Story ...

Susan Linn De Witt - 1823 - 496 pages
...he thought a paradise. He replied, " Because it is at present a solitude, for you know," added he, "The world was sad, — the garden was a wild, And man, the hermit, siglied — till woman smil'd." " Now your smile, Miss Melross, might indeed make such a place a paradise."...
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The Bardiad: A Poem ; in Two Cantos

Charles Burton - 1823 - 234 pages
...love endears, Without the smile from partial beauty, Oh! what were man ?—a world without a sun ! " The world was sad !—the garden was a wild! And Man, the hermit, sigh'd—till Woman smil'd ! " Let Winter come! let polar spirits sweep The dark'ning world, and tempest-troubled...
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The Literary magnet of the belles lettres, science, and the fine ..., Volume 1

Tobias Merton (pseud) - 1824 - 480 pages
...close union and a marked dependence upon each other. Beautifully and justly has a living poet said — "The world was sad, the garden was a wild; And man the hermit sigh'd till woman smil'd." of perpetual pleasure, moderated (as indeed it was) by the most tender care, and by continued anxieties;...
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The Literary Magnet of the Belles Lettres, Science, and the Fine Arts, Volume 1

Tobias Merton - 1824 - 488 pages
...close union and a marked dependence upon each other. Beautifully and justly has a living poet said — "The world was sad, the garden was a wild; And man the hermit sigh'd till woman smil'd." of perpetual pleasure, moderated (us indeed it was) by the most tender care, and by continued anxieties....
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The Percy Anecdotes: Original and Select, Volume 1

Reuben Percy - 1826 - 394 pages
...amiable exertions for them, recommended • itself to their imitation with double attractions." WOMAN. " The world was sad, the garden was a wild, And man, the hermit, sigh'd till woman smil'd." CAMPBELL. " I have always remarked," says the celebrated traveller Ledyard, " that women in all countries...
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The Ant, publ. during 1826 and 1827, Volume 2

Ant The - 1827 - 366 pages
...: society had no spell to soothe his memory, and change no charm to lull it : " Still slowly passed the melancholy day, And still the stranger wist not where to stray." At length he joined the cause of the struggling Greeks, and his name has been often and honourably...
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