Domestic Happiness Portrayed: Or, A Repository for Those who Are, and Those who are Not Married |
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... whilst the employments of the other sex , at the same period of life , are generally the reverse of every thing that can open and enlarge their minds , or fill them with just and rational notions . The truth of it is , female education ...
... whilst the employments of the other sex , at the same period of life , are generally the reverse of every thing that can open and enlarge their minds , or fill them with just and rational notions . The truth of it is , female education ...
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... whilst it was yet un- known and unsuspected by themselves . However , after some time , Will , by mutual agreement , demanded the lady of her father in marriage . But , alas ! " the course of true love never yet run smooth : " the ill ...
... whilst it was yet un- known and unsuspected by themselves . However , after some time , Will , by mutual agreement , demanded the lady of her father in marriage . But , alas ! " the course of true love never yet run smooth : " the ill ...
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... Whilst my wife is thus cautious that I should not be led astray even by my own sex when abroad , she takes parti- cular care that I may not stumble on temptation at home . It was some time after our marriage , before she could find ...
... Whilst my wife is thus cautious that I should not be led astray even by my own sex when abroad , she takes parti- cular care that I may not stumble on temptation at home . It was some time after our marriage , before she could find ...
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... whilst one is to be dusted , another dry - rubbed , another washed , and another run over with a dry mop . Thus , in- deed , I may be said to live in continual dirtiness , that my house may be clean ; for , during these nice operations ...
... whilst one is to be dusted , another dry - rubbed , another washed , and another run over with a dry mop . Thus , in- deed , I may be said to live in continual dirtiness , that my house may be clean ; for , during these nice operations ...
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... whilst all the furniture , except when we have company , is done up in paper , as if the family to whom it belongs were gone into the country . In a word , sir , any thing that is decent and cleanly is too good to be used , for fear it ...
... whilst all the furniture , except when we have company , is done up in paper , as if the family to whom it belongs were gone into the country . In a word , sir , any thing that is decent and cleanly is too good to be used , for fear it ...
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admiration affection agreeable amiable ASPASIA attention beauty behaviour blessed celibacy character charms cheerful choice circumstances Cleanthes Cleora conduct conjugal connexion consider conversation daugh daughter dear delicacy delight desire disposition domestic duty endeavour enjoy equally esteem Euphorbus eyes father feelings felicity female folly fondness fortune friendship gentleman give happiness heart Herod honour human humour husband Hymen innocence jealousy kind lady letter libertine live look Lothario lover Lucon manner Mariamne Mark Antony marriage married married couple matrimonial ment mind misery mistress mother mutual nature ness never object observed occasion opinion OVID pain parents passion perhaps person pleasing pleasure possessed prudence racter rapture reason religion rience sense sensible sentiments smile soul storms of passion suffer sweet taste temper tenderness Terentia Theana thing thought tion unhappy union vanity virtue virtuous whilst wife woman women young youth
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Page 46 - Man-like, but different sex; so lovely fair, That what seem'd fair in all the world seem'd now Mean, or in her summ'd up...
Page 52 - Duchess, with all the household, gentlemen and gentlewomen, were hunting in the park. I found her in her chamber reading...
Page 124 - Though higher of the genial bed by far, And with mysterious reverence I deem, So much delights me, as those graceful acts, Those thousand decencies that daily flow From all her words and actions...
Page 98 - The jealous man is not indeed angry if you dislike another ; but if you find those faults which are to be found in his own character, you discover not only your dislike of another, but of himself. In short, he is so desirous of...
Page 352 - Minds, than to create new Habits in them. Instead of such high Passages, I was thinking it would be of great Use (if any Body could hit it) to lay before the World such Adventures as befal[l] Persons not exalted above the common Level. This, methought, would better prevail upon the ordinary Race of Men, who are so prepossessed with outward Appearances, that they mistake Fortune for Nature, and believe nothing can relate to them that does not happen to such as live and look like themselves.
Page 128 - Not minds of melancholy strain, Still silent or that still complain, Can the dear bondage bless : As well may heavenly concerts spring From two old lutes with ne'er a string, Or none besides the bass.
Page 52 - Guilford, desired permission to see her ; but she refused her consent, and sent him word, that the tenderness of their parting would overcome the fortitude of both, and would too much unbend their minds from that constancy which their approaching end required of them. Their separation...
Page 374 - ... my applauses : sometimes she sings my verses, and accompanies them with the lute, without any master, except love, the best of instructors. From these instances I take the most certain omens of our perpetual and increasing happiness, since her affection is not founded on my youth or person, which must gradually decay; but she is in love with the immortal part of me — my glory and reputation.
Page 110 - I am not so much inclined to wonder that marriage is sometimes unhappy, as that it appears so little loaded with calamity ; and cannot but conclude that society has something in itself eminently agreeable to human nature, when I find its pleasures so great, that even the ill choice of a companion can hardly overbalance them.
Page 229 - Hail, wedded Love, mysterious law, true source Of human offspring, sole propriety In Paradise of all things common else! By thee adulterous Lust was driven from men Among the bestial herds to range ; by thee, Founded in reason, loyal, just, and pure, Relations dear, and all the charities Of father, son, and brother, first were known.