 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 Seasons, and Castle of Indolence ... - Page 186by James Thomson, Dr. Johnson - 1818 - 279 pagesFull view - About this book
 | James Thomson - 1793 - 300 pages
...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! 315 Nor wife, nor children, more shall he behold; Nor friends, nor sacred home. On every nerve The... | |
 | Nathan Drake - 1800 - 482 pages
...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...more shall he behold, Nor friends, nor sacred home. Winter, 311. NUMBER II. • Lucretius • Doctrina solers idem, clarusque Poeta, Antiqui vatis reparat... | |
 | James Thomson - 1800 - 302 pages
...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...Alas ! Nor wife , nor children , more shall he behold , I Nor friends , nor sacred home. On every nerve ; The deadly Winter seizes ; shuts up sense ; ; And... | |
 | 1800 - 322 pages
...tire 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 shall he behold, Nor f'iifiids, nor sacred home. On ev'ry nerve The deadly winter seizes; shuts up sense; And o'er his inmost... | |
 | James Thomson - 1802 - 340 pages
...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...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... | |
 | James Thomson - 1802 - 344 pages
...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...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... | |
 | James Thomson - 1802 - 320 pages
...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...shall he behold, Nor friends, nor sacred home. On ev'ry nerve The deadly Winter seizes; shuts up sense; And, o'er his inmost vitals creeping cold, Lays... | |
 | James Thomson - 1803 - 268 pages
...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...home. On every nerve The deadly Winter seizes ; shuts np sense ; And , o'er his inmost vitals creeping cold , Lays him along the snows , a stiffened corse... | |
 | 1803 - 572 pages
...the vestment wa- m ; In vain his little children, peeping out Into the mingling storm, demand thrir sire, With tears of artless innocence. Alas ! Nor...more shall he behold, Nor friends, nor sacred home." The word officious is here used in its primitive though not most nsual signification, of doing good... | |
 | 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... | |
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