 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...  The American Whig Review - Pagina 4681849Visualizzazione completa - Informazioni su questo libro
 | Thomas Gray - 1894 - 250 pagine
...dulcedine tangent." Wakefield also quotes Thomson, Winter, 311, describing the man dying in the snow : " In vain for him the officious wife prepares The fire...demand their sire With tears of artless innocence. Alas ! Nor wife, nor children, more shall he behold, Nor friends, nor sacred home." 96. Glebe. From... | |
 | William Minto - 1894 - 438 pagine
...Nature shoots Through the wrung bosom of the dying man ; His wife, his children, and his friends unseen. In vain for him the officious wife prepares The fire...demand their sire With tears of artless innocence. Alas ! Nor wife, nor children, more shall he behold, Nor friends, nor sacred home. On every nerve The... | |
 | William Minto - 1894 - 434 pagine
...Nature shoots Through the wrung bosom of the dying man ; His wife, his children, and his friends unseen. In vain for him the officious wife prepares The fire...demand their sire With tears of artless innocence. Alas ! Nor wife, nor children, more shall he behold. Nor friends, nor sacred home. On every nerve The... | |
 | Louis Du Pont Syle - 1894 - 478 pagine
...bosom of the dying man — His wife, his children, and his friends unsern. 310 In vain for him ihz officious wife prepares The fire fair-blazing, and...demand 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... | |
 | Thomas Gray - 1894 - 400 pagine
.... . Sacrum et vetustis exstruat lignis focum Lassi sub adventum viri." — HORACE, Epode, ii. 39. " In vain for him the officious wife prepares The fire...In vain his little children, peeping out Into the mingled storm, demand their sire With tears of artless innocence." —THOMSON, Winter, 311. 22. ply... | |
 | Thomas Gray - 1895 - 190 pagine
...vetustis exstruat lignis focum Lassi sub adventum viri," etc. Mitford quotes Thomson, Winter, 311 : " In vain for him the officious wife prepares The fire...Into the mingling storm, demand their sire With tears ot ardess innocence." Wakefield cites The Idler, 103 : " There are few things, not purely evil, of... | |
 | Samuel Austin Allibone - 1896 - 794 pagine
...children, twined around his neck, And emulous to please him, calling forth The fond paternal soul. THOMSON. In vain his little children, peeping out Into the mingling storm, demand their sire. THOMSON. Trailing clouds of glory, do we come From God, who is our home : Heaven lies about us in our... | |
 | 1832 - 372 pagine
...Nature shoots Thro' the wrung bosom of the dying man, His wife, his children, and bls friends unseen. In vain for him the officious wife prepares . The...out Into the mingling storm, demand their sire With lears of artless innocence. Alas ! Nor wlfit, nor children, more shall he hehold, Nor friends, nor... | |
 | Thomas Gray - 1898 - 346 pagine
...Dryden.] Thomson in his M-inter, 1726, had written of the shepherd overwhelmed in the snow-storm : "In vain for him the officious wife prepares The fire...his little children, peeping out Into the mingling rack, demand their sire With tears of artless innocence." (ll. 311—315.) 24. Or. Nor, Fraser MS.... | |
 | Frederick Saunders, Minnie K. Davis - 1899 - 768 pagine
...shoots Through the wrung bosom of the dying man : .His wife, his children, and his friends unseen. In vain for him the officious wife prepares The fire...demand their sire, With tears of artless innocence. Alas! Nor wife, nor children, more shall he behold. Nor friends, nor sacred home. On every nerve The... | |
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