 These check his fearful steps ; and down he sinks Beneath the shelter of the shapeless drift, Thinking o'er all the bitterness of death, Mix'd with the tender anguish nature shoots Through the wrung bosom of the dying man, His wife, his children, and...  Blackwood's Magazine - Page 2971831Full view - About this book
 | James Thomson - 1816 - 256 pages
...ahoats. Through the wrung bosom pf the dying imui, His wife, his children* and his, friends unseen, Jn vain for him th' officious, wife prepares The fire fair-blazing, and the vestment TKaroj 4 In vain his little children, peeping out ,• . . Into the mingling storm, demand their aiifo... | |
 | Thomas Gray, John Mitford - 1816 - 446 pages
...share. VARIATIONS. Ver. 24. Or] Nor, Ms. W. NOTES. See also Thomson's Winter, 311: " In vain for him the officious wife prepares The fire fair-blazing, and the vestment warm: In vain bis little children, peeping out Into the mingling stonn* demand their sire> With tears of artless... | |
 | James Thomson, Dr. Johnson - 1818 - 316 pages
...shapeless drift, Thinking o'er all the bitterness of death ; Mix'd with the tender anguish Nature shoots Through the wrung bosom of the dying man, His wife,...vestment warm ; In vain his little children, peeping ont Into the mingling storm, demand their sire, With tears of artless innocence. Alas ! Nor wife, nor... | |
 | John Aikin - 1820 - 832 pages
...shapeless drift, Thinking o'er all the bitterness of death, Mii'il with the tender anguish Nature shoots des Ran nectar, visiting each plant, and fed tb' officious wife prepares The fire fair-blazing, and the vestment warm ; In vain his little children,... | |
 | Lindley Murray - 1821 - 278 pages
...shapeless drift, Thinking o'er all the bitterness of death, Mix'd with the tender anguish nature shoots Through the wrung bosom of the dying man, His wife,...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... | |
 | Lindley Murray - 1821 - 280 pages
...shapeless drift, Thinking o'er all the bitterness of death, Mix'd with the tender anguish nature shoots Through the wrung bosom of the dying man, His wife,...prepares The fire fair-blazing, and the vestment warm ; 3- In vain his little children, peeping out, In o the mingled storm, demand their sire, : > With... | |
 | Lindley Murray - 1821 - 280 pages
...Thinking o'er all the bitterness of death, Mix'd with the tender anguish nature shoots Through the rung bosom of the dying man, His wife, his children, and...vain for him th" officious wife prepares The fire fair blazing, and the vestment warm ; In vain his little children peeping out Into the mingled storm,... | |
 | Lindley Murray, Jeremiah Goodrich - 1822 - 322 pages
...shapeless drift, Thinking o'er all the bitterness of death, Mix'd with the tender anguish nature shoots Through the wrung bosom of the dying man, His wife,...prepares The fire fair-blazing, and the vestment warm; 5. In vain his little children, peeping out, Into the mingled storm, demand their sire, With tears... | |
 | James Thomson - 1822 - 174 pages
...shapeless drift. Thinking o'er all the bitterness of death, Mix'tl with the tender anguish Nature shoots Through the wrung bosom of the dying man, His wife,...children, and his friends unseen. In vain for him the' oflicious wife prepares The fire fair-blazing, and the vestment warm; In vain his little children,... | |
 | British poets - 1822 - 272 pages
...shapeless drift, Thinking o'er all the bitterness of death, Mix'd with the tender anguish Nature shoots Through the wrung bosom of the dying man, His wife,...children, and his friends unseen. In vain for him the' officious wife prepares The fire fair-blazing, and the vestment warm ; In vain his little children,... | |
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