Tom Hood, appears to have borrowed this idea in the Song of the Shirt:—
It is not linen you’re wearing out.
But human creatures’ lives.
In Rogers’ poem, Human Life is this couplet describing a good wife:—
A guardian angel o’er his hearth presiding,
Doubling his pleasures, and his cares dividing.
In the Tatler, No. 49, it is said of a model couple, Amanda and Florio, that “their satisfactions are doubled, their sorrows lessened, by participation.”
Of the buccaneering adventurer described in Rokeby, Sir Walter Scott says:—