 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 Lincoln Brandt - 1895 - Počet stránok 544
...old bachelor ; no soul having a common interest, and no soul to share sorrows and pleasures." " 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 Derives its current from above, And earth... | |
 | Louis Klopsch - 1896 - Počet stránok 382
...In woman, than to study household good, And good works in her husband to promote. — MII/TON. What is there in the vale of life Half so delightful as...and peace combine To stamp the marriage-bond divine ? — COWPER. O woman! thou knowest the hour when thegoodman of the house will return, when the heat... | |
 | 1896 - Počet stránok 1224
...she's the moon, and thou art the man in the moon. t. CONOREVE — Love for Love. Act II. Sc. 1. What emen of England. n. SAM'L JOHNSON — Johnsoniana. u. COWPER— Love Abuted. Oh! 'tis a precious thing, when wives are dead, To find such numbers who... | |
 | Samuel Austin Allibone - 1896 - Počet stránok 794
...strong invader broke, In all their strength, by one tremendous stroke! CRABBE: The Wife's Funeral. What is there in the vale of life Half so delightful as a wife, is, 'tis true, When friendship, love, and peace combine To stamp the marriage-bond divine ? The stream... | |
 | Philip Hugh Dalbiac - 1897 - Počet stránok 526
...of anything But for the happiness 'twill bring? " CAMBRIDGE. Learning, a Dialogue, line 23. " What is there in the vale of life, Half so delightful as...friendship, love, and peace combine, To stamp the marriage bond divine ? " r COWPER. Love abused, l!nc 1. " What is there in this vile earth that more... | |
 | Henry Theophilus Finck - 1899 - Počet stránok 888
...maidens, poets, like novelists, have until recently ignored the wife too much. But Cowper sang : 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 Derives its current from above ; And earth... | |
 | Abram N. Coleman - 1903 - Počet stránok 310
...superstititon that doth fear the idol which itself has made. Sir T. Overbury. CHAPTER VI. MARRIAGE. , What is there in the vale of life Half so delightful as...and peace combine To stamp the marriage-bond divine? Cowper. 1. A light wife doth make a heavy husband. Shakespeare. 2. Woman was made out of the rib, taken... | |
 | Motilal M. Munshi - 1904 - Počet stránok 562
...distress ; A rest in passing through life's wilderness.f 0 From The Vonng Wife. —" MAnABHARATA.' What is there in the vale of life Half so delightful as...When friendship, love, and peace combine To stamp the marriage bond divine ? —COWPER. The three most beautiful words in the English language are, mother,... | |
 | William Cowper - 1905 - Počet stránok 916
...If a man must be scolded for loving his own. LOVE ABUSED THE THOUGHT SUGGESTED BV THKLYPHTHORA 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 Derives its current from above ; And earth... | |
 | William Cowper - 1905 - Počet stránok 716
...2 to] of RM. 7 and] or RM. Lwe Abused— Sub-title in BM. (The thought suggested by Thelyphthora). The stream of pure and genuine love Derives its current from above ; And earth a second Eden shows t Where'er the healing water flows. But ah ! if from the dykes and drains Of sensual nature's f ev'rish... | |
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