 The treasures of the deep are not so precious As are the conceal'd comforts of a man Lock'd up in woman's love. I scent the air Of blessings when I come but near the house. What a delicious breath marriage sends forth! The violet bed's not sweeter.  The British Critic: A New Review - Page 1801816Full view - About this book
 | Baptists - 1856 - 790 pages
...breath marriage sends forth i— Tbe violet bed's not sweeterl Honest wedlock Is like a lovely house built In a garden, On which the spring's chaste flowers take delight To cast their modest odours : wben base lust, With all her powders, paintings, and vain pride, Is but a fair house built by a ditch... | |
 | Irish literature - 1857 - 864 pages
...treasures of the deep are not so precious, As are the unseen comforts of a man Locked up in woman's love. I scent the air Of blessings, when I come but near the...house, What a delicious breath marriage sends forth I The Tiolet bed's not sweeter. Here his life might have glided on as peacefully as the river ; but... | |
 | Washington Irving - 1857 - 478 pages
...are not so r rccioni An are the oonceal'd comforts of a man Looked up in woman's lore. I Kent the ait Of blessings, when I come but near the house. What a delicious breath marriage sends forth . . The violet bed's not sweeter. MIDDLKTOX. I HAVE often had occasion to remark the fortitude with which women... | |
 | Washington Irving - 1858 - 450 pages
...of the deep are not so precious As are the conceal'd comforts of a man Locked up In woman's love. I scent the air Of blessings, when I come but near the...What a delicious breath marriage sends forth . . The violet bed's not sweeter. MlDDLETOIf. I HAVE often had occasion to remark the fortitude with which... | |
 | Worthy Putnam - Elocution - 1858 - 420 pages
...of the doep are not so precious As are the concealed comforts of a man Locked up in woman's love. I scent the air Of blessings when I come but near the...house. What a delicious breath marriage sends forth I — The violet bed's not sweeter. — MIDDLBTON. 1. I HAVE often had occasion to remark the fortitude... | |
 | William Hazlitt - English drama - 1859 - 494 pages
...of the deep are not so precious, As are the concealed comforts of a man Lock'd up in woman's love. I scent the air Of blessings when I come but near the...What a delicious breath marriage sends forth ! The violet bed's not sweeter. Honest wedlock Is like a banqueting house built in a garden, On which the... | |
 | William Hone - Almanacs, English - 1859 - 854 pages
...breath marriage lends forth ! The violet bed's not sweeter. Honest wedlock Is like a banqueting house built in a garden, On which the Spring's chaste flowers take delight To cast thrir modett odonrs.— HMlttm, 1657. h. in. May 9. Day break* ... 1 38 Sun rises .... 4 24 — sets... | |
 | William Makepeace Thackeray - Electronic journals - 1870 - 834 pages
...blessings when I come but near the house. What a delicious breath marriage sends forth! The violet bed 's not sweeter. Honest wedlock Is like a banqueting-house,...when base lust, With all her powders, paintings, and pert pride,* j Is bnt a fair house built by a ditch side. But ho has scarcely been at home an hour... | |
 | Eloquence - 1860 - 360 pages
...in his play entitled " Beware of Women," has drawn the following exquisite picture of wedlock : " I scent the air Of blessings when I come but near the...What a delicious breath marriage sends forth. The violet bed 's not sweeter. Honest wedlock Is like a banqueting house built in a garden, On which the... | |
 | Eloquence - 1860 - 360 pages
...in his play entitled " Beware of Women," has drawn the following exquisite picture of wedlock : "I scent the air Of blessings when I come but near the...What a delicious breath marriage sends forth. The violet bed 's not sweeter. Honest wedlock Is like a banqueting house built in a garden, On which the... | |
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