 | Frederick Lawrence - 1855 - 398 páginas
...prattle and innocent follies of their children ; the joy with which the tender smile of a wife inspires a husband; or lastly, the cheerful solid comfort which a fond couple enjoy in each other's conversation."1 These unfailing sources of happiness were fully tasted hy Fielding during his retirement... | |
 | Henry Fielding - 1857 - 530 páginas
...prattle and innocent follies of their children ; the joy with which the tender smile of a wife inspires a husband ; or, lastly, the cheerful, solid comfort...which a fond couple enjoy in each other's conversation 1 All these pleasures, and every other of which our situation was capable, we tasted in the highest... | |
 | John Heneage Jesse - 1875 - 392 páginas
...follies of their children ; the joy with which the tender smile of a wife inspires a husband ; and, lastly, the cheerful, solid comfort, which a fond couple enjoy in each other's conversation."2 But these priceless blessings had scarcely been tasted before they passed away to return... | |
 | James Vila Blake - 1891 - 308 páginas
...prattle and innocent follies of their children; the joy with which the tender smile of a wife inspires a husband; or, lastly, the cheerful, solid comfort...which a fond couple enjoy in each other's conversation ?" This abundance of drops of happiness, like rain, if we will but gather them, is the meaning of the... | |
 | John Heneage Jesse - 1901 - 416 páginas
...follies of their children ; the joy with which the tender smile of a wife inspires a husband ; and, lastly, the cheerful, solid comfort, which a fond couple enjoy in each other's conversation." But these priceless blessings had scarcely been tasted before they passed away to return no more. Improvidence,... | |
 | Henry Fielding - 1902 - 338 páginas
...prattle and innocent follies of their children ; the joy with which the tender smile of a wife inspires a husband ; or lastly, the cheerful, solid comfort...too great ; for fortune seemed to grow envious of itrand in- . terposed one of the most cruel accidents that could have befallen us by robbing us of... | |
 | John Heneage Jesse - 1902 - 414 páginas
...follies of their children ; the joy with which the tender smile of a wife inspires a husband ; and, lastly, the cheerful, solid comfort, which a fond couple enjoy in each other's conversation." But these priceless blessings had scarcely been tasted before they passed away to return no more. Improvidence,... | |
 | Henry Fielding - 1914 - 310 páginas
...prattle and innocent follies of their children ; the joy with which the tender smile of a wife inspires a husband ; or lastly, the cheerful, solid comfort...other's conversation ? — All these pleasures and everjother of which our situation was capable we tasted in the highest degree. Our happiness was, perhaps,... | |
 | Jane Carroll Byrd - 1914 - 204 páginas
...prattle of innocent follies of their children; the joy with which the tender smile of a wife inspires a husband; or, lastly, the cheerful solid comfort which a fond couple 1. Thackeray: English Humorists of the Eighteenth Century, p. 218. S. Tom Jones. V-9. 3. The drunkenness... | |
 | 1916 - 616 páginas
...'Miscellanies,' Preface. — "From whom I draw all the solid comfort of my life." 'Amelia,' 111. 12. — "The cheerful, solid comfort which a fond couple enjoy in each other's conversation." The Champion, March 6, 1740. — " Represent vice in its natural odious colours." To these exceipts... | |
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... who can describe the pleasures ' which the morning air gives to one in perfect ' health ; the flow of spirits which springs up from ' exercise ; the delights which parents feel from ' the prattle, and innocent follies of their children; ' the joy... 