| William Cowper - English poetry - 1803 - 310 pages
...be fear'd, As to be wantonly incurr'd, To gratify a fretful passion, On ev'ry trivial provocation ? The kindest and the happiest pair Will find occasion to forbear ; And something, ev'ry day they live, To pity, and, perhaps, forgive. But if infirmities that fall In common to the... | |
| William Cowper - English poetry - 1806 - 226 pages
...be feared, As to be wantonly incurred, To gratify a fretful passion, On every trivial provocation ? The kindest and the happiest pair Will find occasion...every day they live, To pity, and perhaps forgive. But if infirmities, that fall In common to the lot of all, A blemish or a sense impaired, Are crimes... | |
| William Cowper - English poetry - 1806 - 478 pages
...feared, As to be wantonly incurred, To gratify a fretful passion, On every trivial provocation ? \ The kindest and the happiest pair Will find occasion...every day they live, To pity, and perhaps forgive. But if infirmities, that fall In common to the lot of all, A blemish or a sense impaired, Are crimes... | |
| William Cowper - 1806 - 310 pages
...wantonly incurred, M2 To gratify a fretfal passion, On every trivial provocation ? The kindest and tlrs happiest pair Will find occasion, to forbear; And...every day they live, To pity and perhaps forgive. But if infirmities, that fall In common to the lot of all, A blemish or a sonse impaired, Are crimes... | |
| William Cowper - 1806 - 316 pages
...incurred, / To gratify a fretful passion, On every trivial provocation ? The kindest and the happiest pait Will find occasion to forbear; And something every day they live* To pity and perhaps forgive. But if infmniiirs, that fall In common to the lot of all, A blemish or a sense impaired, Are crimes... | |
| Robert Southey - English poetry - 1807 - 498 pages
...be fear'd, As to be wantonly incurr'd, To gratify a fretful passion, On every trivial provocation ? The kindest and the happiest pair Will find occasion...every day they live, To pity, and perhaps forgive. But if infirmities, that fall In common to the lot of all, A blemish, or a sense impair'd, Are crimes... | |
| Robert Southey - English poetry - 1807 - 502 pages
...create The comfort of the wedded state ; Instead of harmony 'tis jar, And tumult, and intestine war. The love, that cheers life's latest stage, Proof against sickness and old age, Preserved by virtue from declension, Becomes not weary of attention ; . j But. lives when that exterior... | |
| William Cowper - 1810 - 390 pages
...be fear'd, As to be wantonly incurr'd, To gratify a fretful passion, On ev'ry trivial provocation? The kindest and the happiest pair Will find occasion to forbear; And something ev'ry day they live, To pity, and perhaps forgive. But if infirmities, that fall In common to the lot... | |
| Lindley Murray - Readers - 1810 - 262 pages
...one longing, ling'ring look behind ? SECTION VI. PARAGRAPHS OF GREATER LENGTH. Connubial Affection, THE love that cheers life's latest stage, Proof against sickness and old age, Preserv'd by virtue from declension, . Becomes not weary of attention : But lives, when that exterior... | |
| Women - 1811 - 386 pages
...be frar'd, As to be wantonly incurr'd, To gratify a fretful passion, On Vv'ry trivial provocation? The kindest and the happiest pair Will find occasion to forbear; And something, ev'ry day they live, To pity, and perhaps forgive. But if infirmities that fall In common to the lot... | |
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