 | 1809 - 776 Seiten
...heil.f I beauty admire, but 'tis virtue I prize That fades not in seventy years. That fades not, &c. In health a companion delightful and dear, Still easy, engaging and free ; In sicknesi no less, and the tendercit Burse, Ai tender as tender can be. • As tender as, Sec. In peace... | |
 | John McVickar - 1822 - 260 Seiten
...Quite doubles the pleasure I feel. She defends my good name, e'en where I'm to blame, Friend as firm as to man e'er was given ; Her compassionate breast feels for all the distrest, Which draws down more blessings from Heaven. In peace and good order my household she guides,... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin - 1840 - 604 Seiten
...my wife Quite doubles the pleasure 1 feel. "She defends my good name, even when 1 'in to blame, Firm friend as to man e'er was given ; Her compassionate...what I gain; Yet cheerfully spends, and smiles on the friend• I 've the pleasure to entertain. " Some faults have we all, and so has my Joan, But then... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin, Jared Sparks - 1840 - 610 Seiten
...my wife Quite doubles the pleasure I feel. " She defends my good name, even when 1 "m to blame, Firm friend as to man e'er was given ; Her compassionate...household she guides, Right careful to save what I gain; Tet cheerfully spends, and smiles on the friends I 've the pleasure to entertain. " Some faults have... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin, Jared Sparks - 1840 - 620 Seiten
...my wife Quite doubles the pleasure I feel. "She defends my good name, even when 1 'm to blame, Firm friend as to man e'er was given ; Her compassionate...and free ; In sickness no less than the carefulest none, As tender as tender can be. " In peace and good order my household she guides, Right careful... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin - 1853 - 522 Seiten
...my wife Quite doubles the pleasure I feel. She defends my good name, even whem I 'm to blame, Firm friend as to man e'er was given ; Her compassionate...be. In peace and good order my household she guides, Bight careful to save what I gain ; Yet cheerfully spends, and smiles on the friends I 've the pleasure... | |
 | Evert Augustus Duyckinck - 1855 - 718 Seiten
...of my wife Quite doubles the pleasure 1 foeL She defends my good came, even when I'm to blame, Firm friend as to man e'er was given ; Her compassionate...free ; In sickness no less than the carefulest nurse, AB tender as tender can be. In peace and good order my household she guides, Right careful to save... | |
 | Evert Augustus Duyckinck, George Long Duyckinck - 1855 - 294 Seiten
...of my wife Quite doubles the pleasure 1 fceL She defends my good uame, even when I'm to blame. Firm friend as to man e'er WAS given; Her compassionate...delightful and dear, Still easy, engaging, and free ; lu sicklies no Iei3 than the carcfulest nurse, As tender as tender can be. In pence nnd good order... | |
 | Evert Augustus Duyckinck, George Long Duyckinck - 1856 - 704 Seiten
...Quite doubles the pleasure 1 feel. She defends my good name, even -when I'm to blame, Firm friend us to man e'er was given ; Her compassionate breast feels...dear, Still easy, engaging, and free ; In sickness uo less than the carefulest nurse, As tender as tender can lie. In peace and good order my household... | |
 | James Parton - 1864 - 668 Seiten
...my wife Quite doubles the pleasure I feel. " She defends my good name, even when I'm to blame, Firm friend as to man e'er was given ; Her compassionate...distressed, Which draws down more blessings from heaven." And so, in a similar strain, for several stanzas more. This homely song appears to have been known... | |
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Am I loaded with care, she takes off a large share ; That the burden ne'er makes me to reel ; Does good fortune arrive, the joy of my wife Quite doubles the pleasure I feel. " She defends my good name, even when I'm to blame, Firm friend as to man e'er... 
