 WHAT is there in the vale of life Half so delightful as a wife, When friendship, love, and peace combine To stamp the marriage-bond divine ? The stream of pure and genuine love Derives its current from above ; And earth a second Eden shows, Where'er the...  The British poets, including translations - Strana 208podľa British poets - 1822Úplné zobrazenie - O tejto knihe
 | John Murdoch - 1875 - Počet stránok 366
...depends upon his marriage. It may either be a great blessing or a great curse. Cowper says : — " What is there in the vale of life Half so delightful as...When friendship, love, and peace combine To stamp the marriage bond divine ?" Several important reforms are required in the marriage customs of India, in... | |
 | Alan Benjamin Cheales - 1875 - Počet stránok 188
...mysogynist ' quadruples our expenses !' But A good wife and health Are a man's best wealth. What is then in the vale of life Half so delightful as a wife, When friendship, love and peace combin' To stamp the marriage bond divine. — Cowper. A little field well tilled A little house well... | |
 | Samuel Austin Allibone - 1875 - Počet stránok 794
...strong invader broke, In all their strength, by one tremendous stroke! CRABBE: The Wife''1 Funeral. What is there in the vale of life Half so delightful as a wife, WIFE. When friendship, love, and peace combine To stamp the marriage-bond divine ? The stream of pure... | |
 | Samuel Austin Allibone - 1878 - Počet stránok 788
...strong invader broke, In all their strength, by one tremendous stroke ! CRAHHK: The Wife's Funeral. What is there in the vale of life Half so delightful as...from above; And earth a second Eden shows Where'er ihe healing water flows. COWPER. Alas! and is domestic strife, That sorest ill of human life, A plague... | |
 | William Cowper - 1879 - Počet stránok 688
...found the peaceful shore ; I, tempest-tossed, and wrecked at last, Come home to port no more. WHAT is there in the vale of life Half so delightful as...When friendship, love, and peace combine To stamp the marriage bond divine? The stream of pure and genuine love Derive its current from above ; And earth... | |
 | C. A. M. Burdett - 1880 - Počet stránok 356
...live alone, Yawning and staring sadly in the fire, Till celibacy becomes a weary life ? Pope. What is there in the vale of life Half so delightful as a wife ? Comper. December 15. Her every look, her every smile, Shot right and left a score of arrows ; I thought... | |
 | Jehiel Keeler Hoyt, Anna Lydia Ward - 1882 - Počet stránok 926
...CONMUEVE — Loi-efor Love. Act I. Sc. 5. What is there in the vale of life Half ко delightful as u wife; When friendship, love, and peace combine To stamp the marriage-bond divine Ч g. COWPEIÍ — Love Abused. •Tho wife was pretty, trifling, childish, weak; She could not think,... | |
 | Henry George Bohn - 1883 - Počet stránok 782
...charm all wrongs away, — The sacred name of Wife. 6742 Oliver Wendell Holmes : Agnes. Pt. r What is there In the vale of life Half so delightful as...and peace combine To stamp the marriage-bond divine? 5743 Cowper : Love Abused To no men are such cordial greetings given As those whose wives have made... | |
 | Otis Henry Tiffany - 1883 - Počet stránok 954
...bear one another about in their thoughts continually as it were a new strength. (Oeorge Eliot. What is there in the vale of life Half so delightful as...and peace combine To stamp the marriage-bond divine ? (Cowper. In the election of a wife, as in A project of war, to err but once is To be undone forever.... | |
 | William Cowper - 1885 - Počet stránok 352
...next doth ride abroad, May I be there to see ! LOVE ABUSED. TX 7HAT is there in the vale of life VV Half so delightful as a wife, : When friendship, love,...ah, if from the dykes and drains Of sensual nature's fev'rish veins, Lust, like a lawless headstrong flood, Impregnated with ooze and mud, Descending fast... | |
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