...Which first inspir'd the flame, decays. 'Tis gentle, delicate, and kind, To faults compassionate or blind, And will with sympathy endure Those evils, it would gladly cure: But angry, coarse, and harsh expression Shows love to be a mere profession; Proves that the heart is...

...gratify a fretful passion, On every trivial provocation? The kindest and the happiest pair Will find occasion to forbear; And something, 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...

...one longing, liug'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...

...create The comfort of the wedded slate. Instead of harmony, 'tis jar, And tumult, and intestine war. The love that cheers life's latest stage, Proof against sickness and old age, Prcserv'd by virtue from declension, Becomes not weary of attention ; But lives when that exterior...

...Which first inspir'd the flame, decays. 'Tis gentle, delicate, and kind, To faults compassionate, or blind ; And will with sympathy endure Those evils it would gladly cure. But angry, coarse, and harsh expression, Shews 'ove to be a mere profession ; Proves that the heart...

...gratify a fretful passion, On every trivial provocation? The kindest and the happiest pair Will find occasion to forbear ; And something, every day they live, To pity, and perhaps forgive, fint if infirmities, that fall In common to the lot of all, A blemish or a sense impair'd, Are crimes...

...gratify a fretful passion, On every trivial provocation? The kindest and the happiest pair Will find occasion to forbear ; And something, 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...

...gratify a fretful passion, On every trivial provocation ? The kindest and the happiest pair Will find occasion to forbear ; And something 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...

..."Which first inspir'd the flame decays. 'Tii gentle, delicate, and kind, To faults compassionate, or blind ; And will with sympathy endure Those evils it would gladly cure. But angry, course, and harsh expression, Shows love to be a mere profession ; Proves that the heart...

...gratify a fretful passion, On every trivial provocation? The kindest and the happiest pair Will find occasion to forbear ; And something, every day they live, To pity, and perhaps forgive. But if infirmities, that fall hi common to the lot of all, A blemish or a sense inipair'd, Are crimes...