 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
 | James Thomson - 1816 - 256 pages
...their aiifo With tears of artless innocence. Alas ! Npr wife,.nec children, more, shall he beUoldij, Nor friends, nor sacred home. On every nerve The deadly...up sense ;? And, o'er his, inmost. vitals creeping eoW, J^ays him, along; the snows^a, stiffened «orsel Stretch'd out, and bleaching in the northern... | |
 | Thomas Gray, John Mitford - 1816 - 446 pages
...Philip, ix. : " Si omnes juris consulti in unum conferantur." Ovidii Met. iii. 715. Ver. S3. Uxorum] " Alas ! Nor wife, nor children, more shall he behold Nor friends, nor sacred home." Thomson's Winter, ver. 315. Subjectum, stragemque suam, maesta arva, minaci Despicit imperio, soloque... | |
 | Richard Lobb - Nature study - 1817 - 430 pages
...the officions wife prepares The fire fair-blazing, and the vestment warmi In vain his little childen, peeping out Into the mingling storm, demand their...more shall he behold, Nor friends, nor sacred home ! With respect to the philosophical account of this well-known meteor, naturalists are agreed that... | |
 | England - 1831 - 1044 pages
...unseen. 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...innocence. Alas! Nor wife, nor children, more shall be behold ; Nor friends, nor sacred home. On every nerve The deadly Winter seizps; shuts up sense;... | |
 | Thomas Campbell, Samuel Carter Hall, Edward Bulwer Lytton Baron Lytton, Theodore Edward Hook, Thomas Hood, William Harrison Ainsworth, William Ainsworth - 1818 - 624 pages
..." In vain for him the officious wife prepares The fire fair blazing, and the vestment warm; Tn vain his little children peeping out Into the mingling...! Nor wife, nor children more shall he behold, Nor friend», nor sacred home! POPB. Would not the following couplet from Pope's Essay on Criticism, make... | |
 | 1818 - 510 pages
...vain for him th' officious wife prepares The fire fair blazing, and the vestments warm; In vain 1пэ little children, peeping out Into the mingling storm,...their sire, "With tears of artless innocence. Alas ! 2ior wife, nor children, more shall he behold, Nor friends, nor sacred home." О shall not our gratitude... | |
 | Charles Phillips - 1818 - 356 pages
...seen the olive-branch sent into his little ark, but no sign that the watei? had subsided. i »• .. " 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... | |
 | 1818 - 860 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 the door of his dungeon and leads him forth to light and life, but the minister... | |
 | Charles Phillips - English orations - 1819 - 484 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... | |
 | William Henry Curran - Lawyers - 1819 - 468 pages
...eternal Providence upon his head who had graciously spared the father and restored him to his children: 'Alas! Nor wife, nor children, more shall he behold, Nor friends, nor sacred home!' " Often did the weary dove return to the window of his little ark ; but the olive leaf was to him no... | |
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