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
| British poets - 1822 - 272 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... | |
| James Thomson - 1822 - 174 pagine
...bosom of the dying man, His wife, his children, and his friends unseen. In vain for him the' oflicious wife prepares The fire fair-blazing, and the vestment...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 Jillard Hort - 1822 - 234 pagine
...o'er all the bitterness of death. In vain for him the officious wife prepares The fire fair blazing, and the vestment warm. In vain his little children,...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... | |
| Lionel Thomas Berguer - 1823 - 266 pagine
...wife prepares The fire fair blazing, and the vestment warm; In vain his little children, peeping oat Into the mingling storm, demand their sire With tears of artless innocence. Alas I Nor wife, nor children more shall he behold, Nor friends, nor sacred home. ' If the fairest... | |
| William Hazlitt - 1824 - 1062 pagine
...wrung bosom of the dying man, His wife, his children, and his friends, unseen. In vain for him th' azlitt Alas! Nor wife nor children more shall he behold, Nor friends, nor sacred home. On ev'ry nerve The... | |
| Soldier - 1824 - 518 pagine
...bleak and stiffened corpse. " In vain for him th' officious wife prepares "The fire bright blazing, and the vestment warm; " In vain his little children,...demand their sire, " With tears of artless innocence. Alas! " Nor wife, nor children more, shall he behold, " Nor friends nor sacred home. On ev'ry nerve... | |
| British poets - 1824 - 676 pagine
...devoted wretch of woe and death. Ibid. 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 a.:1' • With tears of artless innocence. Alas ! Nor wife, nor children, more shall he be" Nor friends,... | |
| John Milton - 1824 - 510 pagine
...the wrung bosom of the dying man, His wife, his childien, and his friends unseen. In vain for him th' officious wife prepares The fire fair-blazing, and...vestment warm ; In vain his little children, peeping out [nto the mingling storm, demand their sire, With tears of artless innocence. Alas ! Nor wife, nor children,... | |
| Thomas Gray - 1825 - 346 pagine
...pendent circum oscula nati." Virg. Georg. ii. 523. Of the man perishing in the snow, Thomson says : " 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." Winter, 311. Horace... | |
| Lindley Murray - 1825 - 270 pagine
...the wrung bosom of the dying man, His wife, his children, and his friends unseen. 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... | |
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