Divorce, by an old bachelor

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1. oldal - So dear to Heaven is saintly chastity, That when a soul is found sincerely so, A thousand liveried angels lackey her, Driving far off each thing of sin and guilt, And, in clear dream, and solemn vision, Tell her of things that no gross ear can hear...
39. oldal - I have given them thy word; and the world hath hated them, because they are not of the world, even as I am not of the world.
66. oldal - Let Fate do her worst ; there are relics of joy, Bright dreams of the past, which she cannot destroy ; Which come in the night-time of sorrow and care, And bring back the features that joy used to wear.
11. oldal - Each wave, that we danced on at morning, ebbs from us, And leaves us, at eve, on the bleak shore alone. Ne'er tell me of glories serenely adorning The close of our day, the calm eve of our night : — Give me back, give me back the wild freshness of Morning, Her clouds and her tears are worth Evening's best light.
2. oldal - Such an act, That blurs the grace and blush of modesty; Calls virtue, hypocrite; takes off the rose From the fair forehead of an innocent love, And sets a blister there; makes marriage vows As false as dicers...
63. oldal - He entered in the house — his home no more, For without hearts there is no home ; — and felt The solitude of passing his own door Without a welcome...
76. oldal - Refrain to-night ; And that shall lend a kind of easiness To the next abstinence : the next more easy : For use almost can change the stamp of nature, And either curb the devil, or throw him out With wondrous potency.
4. oldal - Does it not yield a most practical influence upon our morals ? Alas ! the mass of impurity which is daily shovelled up in our Divorce Court bears witness to its effect. Old Father Thames has got a rival ; the accumulated filth that floats on his venerable bosom is not so noxious as the poison that is daily distributed under the sanction of our Christian legislature.

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