...where she had not sought it. Certainly such elements in the character of a marriageable girl tended to interfere with her lot, and hinder it from bein... ... eagerness to know the truths of life, retained very childlike ideas about marriage. She felt sure that she would have accepted the judicious Hooker, ... ...ld 6 Book I — Miss Brooke he affect her as a lover? The really delightful marriage must be that where your husband was a sort of father, and could te... ...ite notion of what it consisted in, and thought that it would die out with marriage. In short, he felt himself to be in love in the right place, and w... ...eriod but for this liberal allowance of conclusions, which has facilitated marriage under the difficulties of civilization. Has any one ever pinched in... ...rriage as a prospect of rising in rank and getting a little nearer to that celestial condition on earth in which she would have nothing to do with vul... ...couraged a little defiance towards the critical strictness of persons whose celestial intimacies seemed not to improve their domestic manners, and whos...

...al. With boldness then, which seldom fails to move, He pleads the cause of Marriage and of Love: The course of Hymeneal joys he rounds, The fair o... ... when two powers are equal, My mind forbodes the sequel; My mind does some celestial impulse teach, And equalises each to each. Thus C. A. with B.... ...ms, I meet her loves, and madden at her charms. For the gay grape can joys celestial move, And what so sweet below as Woman’s love? With such high... ...and a gentler Mien Than the love-wilder’d Maniac’s brain hath seen Shaping celestial forms in vacant air, If these demand the empassion’d Poet’s ca... ...natch what coals of fire on Pleasure’s altar glow! O thou that rearest with celestial aim The future Seraph in my mortal frame, Thrice holy Faith! ... ...s strong controlling love Alike from all educing perfect good. Their’s too celestial courage, inly armed — Dwarfing Earth’s giant brood, what time ... ...ely ’twas, that God himself Scarce seemØd there to be. O sweeter than the marriage-feast, ’Tis sweeter far to me, To walk together to the kirk W... ...o to church with her, You’ll rue the bitter smart; For she will wrong your marriage-bed, And she will break your heart. Oh God, to think that I ha... ...s when fruits are red; May God forbid that thought of me Should haunt your marriage-bed. And let the night be given to bliss, The day be given to ...