 In vain for him the' officious wife prepares The fire fair-blazing and the vestment warm ; In vain his little children, peeping out Into the mingling storm, demand their sire, With tears of artless innocence. Alas! Nor wife, nor children, more shall he...  The Seasons: And The Castle of Indolence - Page lixby James Thomson - 1841 - 271 pagesFull view - About this book
 | 1809 - 530 pages
...had seen die olive branch sent into his little ark, but no sign diat the waters had subsided. — " Alas ! nor wife nor children more shall he behold, nor friends nor sacred home ! " No seraph mercy unbars his dungeon, and leads him forth to light and life ; but the minister of... | |
 | James Thomson, John Aikin - 1804 - 232 pages
...310 In vain for him the officious wife prepares The fire fuir-blazing and the vestment warm; In vain his little children, peeping out Into the mingling...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 deadly... | |
 | John Philpot Curran - Ireland - 1804 - 408 pages
...had seen the olive branch sent into his little ark, but no sign that the waters had subsided — " Alas ! nor wife, nor children more shall he behold, nor friends, nor sacred home '." — No seraph Mercy unbars his dungeon, and leads him forth to light and life, but the Minister... | |
 | English poetry - 1806 - 408 pages
...In vain for him th' officious wife prepares The fire fair-blazing, and the vestment warm ; In vain his little children, peeping out Into the mingling...vitals creeping cold, lays him along the snows, a stiffened corse, Stretch'd out, and bleaching in the northern blast. Ah ! little think the gay, licentious... | |
 | Poetry - 1806 - 330 pages
...fire 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....shall he behold, Nor friends, nor sacred home. On ev'ry nerve 168 The deadly winter seizes ; shuts up sense ; And o'er his inmost vitals creeping cold,... | |
 | James Thomson - 1806 - 242 pages
...310 In vain for him th' officious wife prepares The fire fair-blazing, and the vestment warm; In vain his little children, peeping out Into the mingling...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... | |
 | Sir John Carr - Ireland - 1806 - 366 pages
...you had seen the olive branch sent into his little ark, but no sign that the maters had subsided. ' Alas! nor wife, nor children, ' more shall he behold; nor friends, nor sacred home!' No seraph mercy unbars his dungeon, and leads him forth to light and life; but the minister of death... | |
 | Nathaniel Chapman - Great Britain - 1807 - 464 pages
...you had seen the olive branch sent into his little ark, but no sign that the waters had subsided. — "Alas! nor wife, nor children more shall he behold, nor friends, nor sacred home!" — No seraph mercy unbars his dungeon, and leads him forth to light and life, but the minister of... | |
 | Nathaniel Chapman - Great Britain - 1807 - 458 pages
...had seen the olive branch sent into his little ark, but no sign that the waters had subsided. — " Alas ! nor wife, nor children more shall he behold, nor friends, nor sacred home!" — No seraph mercy unbars his dungeon, and leads him forth to light and life, but the minister of... | |
 | Cabinet - 1808 - 524 pages
...In vain for him th' officious wife prepares The fire fair-blazing, and the vestment warm ; In vain his little children, peeping out Into the mingling...vitals creeping cold, Lays him along the snows, a stiften'd corse, Stretch'd out, and bleaching in the northern blast. Ah, little think the gay licentious... | |
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