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... fortune , for space in the world's thought , and dominion over his fellow - men . woman's whole life is a history of the affections . The heart is her world ; it is there her ambition strives for empire ; it is there her avarice seeks ...
... fortune , for space in the world's thought , and dominion over his fellow - men . woman's whole life is a history of the affections . The heart is her world ; it is there her ambition strives for empire ; it is there her avarice seeks ...
Page 45
... fortune's sun , As flowers do change by culture . To kneel at many a shrine , Yet lay the heart on none , To think all other charms divine , But those we just have won . It is a delightful sensation which a new passion begins to stir up ...
... fortune's sun , As flowers do change by culture . To kneel at many a shrine , Yet lay the heart on none , To think all other charms divine , But those we just have won . It is a delightful sensation which a new passion begins to stir up ...
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He that hath a wife and children hath given hostages to fortune , for they are impediments to great enterprises , either of virtue or mischief . Bacon . May thorns be planted in the marriage bed , And love grow soured and blacken into ...
He that hath a wife and children hath given hostages to fortune , for they are impediments to great enterprises , either of virtue or mischief . Bacon . May thorns be planted in the marriage bed , And love grow soured and blacken into ...
Page 88
... fortune or his worst is a wife . An obedient wife commands her husband . An immoral bachelor makes a jealous husband . Every man can tame a shrew but he that hath her . He who does not honor his wife , dishonors himself . It's hard to ...
... fortune or his worst is a wife . An obedient wife commands her husband . An immoral bachelor makes a jealous husband . Every man can tame a shrew but he that hath her . He who does not honor his wife , dishonors himself . It's hard to ...
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... fortune . Massinger . Though fools spurn Hymen's gentle powers , We who improve his golden hours By sweet experience know That marriage , rightly understood , Gives to the tender and the good A paradise below . Cotton . A good wife is ...
... fortune . Massinger . Though fools spurn Hymen's gentle powers , We who improve his golden hours By sweet experience know That marriage , rightly understood , Gives to the tender and the good A paradise below . Cotton . A good wife is ...
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Addison affection Bailey Bayard Taylor beauty blush breast breath bright Bulwer Burns Byron Campbell charms cheek Chesterfield Cicero Coleridge Colton Cowper dark death doth Dryden earth enemy eyes face fate faults fear feel Ferrold flower folly fool fortune friendship genius give glow Goethe Goldsmith grace Greville grief grow happiness hath Hazlitt heart heaven hope human husband Joanna Baillie Johnson kiss La Bruyère La Rochefoucauld Lavater life's light lips live Longfellow look love's lover Madame de Staël maiden man's marriage married Milton mind Miss Landon Moore Nature ne'er never o'er once Ovid pain passion pleasure Pope pride proud Proverb Rochefoucauld scorn Scott sense Shakspeare sighs sleep smile soft sorrow soul Spanish Proverb speak sweet Sydney Smith tears tender thee There's things thou hast thought tongue trust truth vice virtue warm wife wise woman women wooed words Wordsworth Young youth