 Nor wife, nor children more shall he behold, Nor friends, nor sacred home. On every nerve The deadly Winter seizes ; shuts up sense ; And, o'er his inmost vitals creeping cold, Lays him along the snows, a stiffen'd Corse, 320 Stretch'd out, and bleaching...  Literary Hours; Or, Sketches, Critical, Narrative, and Poetical - Page 33by Nathan Drake - 1804Full view - About this book
 | Robert Chambers - English literature - 1851 - 764 pages
...children, and his friends, unseen. In vain for him the officious wife prepares The fire fair blazing, looked forth From out her western hermitage, and...moon With all her stars, gazing on earth intense, 1 Nor wife nor children more shall he behold, Nor friends, nor sacred home. On every nerve The deadly... | |
 | 1851 - 496 pages
...exhibit Thomson 's power of pathos: " In vain for him the officious wife prepares The fire fair blazing, and the vestment warm ; In vain his little children,...the mingling storm, demand their sire "With tears of arlless innocence. Alas I Nor wife, nor children more shall he behold, Nor friends, nor sacred home."... | |
 | George Frederick Graham - English literature - 1852 - 570 pages
...shoots Through the wrung bosom of the dying man — His wife, his children, and his friends unseen. 310 In vain for him the officious wife prepares The fire...their sire, With tears of artless innocence. Alas ! 315 Nor wife, nor children more shall he behold, Nor friends, nor sacred home. On every nerve The... | |
 | A. R. Phippen - Education - 1854 - 472 pages
...the wrung" bosom of the dying man,— His wife, his children, and his friends unseen. [• — PL] In vain for him the officious wife prepares The fire...vestment warm ; In vain his little children, peeping out5 Into the mingling storm, demand their sire, With tears of artless innocence. Ala* I Nor wife,... | |
 | James Robert Boyd - English language - 1852 - 364 pages
...His wife, his children, and his friends unseen. In vain for him th' officious wife prepares The fir 3 fair-blazing and the vestment warm ; In vain his little children, peeping out Into the mingled storm, demand their sire, With tears of artless innocence. Alas ! Nor wife, nor children, more... | |
 | Thomas Gray - 1853 - 384 pages
...Sacrum et vetastls exstruat lignis foenm Lassi sub adventum viri." See also Thomson. Winter, 311: " In vain for him the officious wife prepares The fire...demand their sire With tears of artless innocence." V. 24. " Interea duloes pendent circum osenla nati." Virg. Georg. ii. v. 523. W. So Dryden. ed. Warton,... | |
 | Thomas Gray - 1853 - 362 pages
...et vetustis cxstruat lignis focum Lassi sub adventum viri." See also Thomson. Winter, 311: " In rain for him the officious wife prepares The fire fair-blazing,...demand their sire With tears of artless innocence." V. 24. " Interea dulees pendent cireum oscula nati." Virg. Goorg. ii. v. 523. W. So Dryden. ed. Warton,... | |
 | Thomas Gray - 1853 - 368 pages
...vetustis exstruat lignis focum Lassi sub adventum viri." See also Thomson. Winter, 311: " In vain for Mm the officious wife prepares The fire fair-blazing,...demand their sire With tears of artless innocence." V. 24. " Interea duloes pendent circum oscula nati." Virg. Georg. ii. v. 523. W. So Dryden. ed. Warton,... | |
 | James Thomson - English poetry - 1854 - 312 pages
...shoots Through the wrung bosom of the dying man, His wife, his children, and his friends unseen, sio In vain for him the officious Wife prepares The fire...their sire, With tears of artless innocence. Alas ! 315 Nor wife, nor children more shall he behold, Nor friends, nor sacred home. On every nerve The... | |
 | Edward J. Hallock - English language - 1854 - 260 pages
...wrung bosom of the dying man, His wife, his children, and his friends unseen. 5. In vain for him th' officious wife prepares The fire fair-blazing, and...In vain his little children, peeping out Into the mingled storm, demand their sire, With tears of artless innocence. Alas ! Nor wife nor children more... | |
| |
