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[Illustration: Frontispiece Eddystone Light House as erected by Lord Bywater 1759.]
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DOMESTIC PLEASURES;
OR
The happy Fire-side.
ILLUSTRATED BY INTERESTING CONVERSATIONS.
BY F. B. VAUX.
Domestic happiness, thou only bliss Of Paradise, that has surviv'd the fall! Tho' few do taste thee unimpair'd and pure, Or tasting, long enjoy thee! too infirm, Or too incautious to preserve thy sweets Unmix'd with drops of bitter, which neglect Or temper sheds into thy crystal cup; Thou art the nurse of virtue; in thine arms She smiles, appearing, as in truth she is, Heaven-born, and destin'd to the skies again.