 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 storm, demand their sire, With tears of artless innocence. Alas ! Nor wife, nor children, more shall...  Blackwood's Magazine - Page 2971831Full view - About this book
 | James Thomson, John Aikin - 1804 - 232 pages
...children, and his friends unseen. 310 In vain for him the officious wife prepares The fire fuir-blazing and the vestment warm; In vain his little children,...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 deadly... | |
 | 1806 - 408 pages
...drift, Thinking o'er all the bitterness of death, Mix'd with the tender anguish Nature shoots Thro' the wrung bosom of the dying Man, His wife, his children,...innocence. Alas ! Nor wife, nor children, more shall he behold, Nor friends, nor sacred home. On every nerve The deadly winter seizes; shuts up sense; And,... | |
 | James Thomson - 1806 - 242 pages
...shoots Thro' the wrung bosom of the dying Man, His wife, his children, and his friends unseen. 310 In vain for him th' officious wife prepares The fire...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... | |
 | 1806 - 330 pages
...fire 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 friends, nor sacred home. On ev'ry nerve 168 The deadly winter seizes ; shuts up sense... | |
 | Cabinet - 1808 - 524 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,...innocence. Alas ! Nor wife, nor children, more shall he behold, Nor friends, nor sacred home. On every nerve The deadly winter seizes ; shuts up sense ;... | |
 | James Thomson, Thomas Parnell - 1808 - 338 pages
...shoots Thro' the wrung bosom of the (lying man , His wife , his children , and his friends unseec. In vain for him th' officious wife prepares The fire...innocence. Alas ! Nor wife , nor children , more shall he henold , Nor friends, nor sacred home. On every nerve The deadly Winter seizes; shuts up sense;... | |
 | James Thomson, Thomas Park - 1808 - 444 pages
...His wife, his children, and his friends unseen. In vain for him the' officious wife prepares The tire fair-blazing, and the vestment warm; In vain his little...innocence. Alas! Nor wife, nor children, more shall he behold, Nor (rier.ds, nor sacred home. On every nerve The deadly Winter seizes ; shuts up sense... | |
 | Richard Cumberland - 1809 - 518 pages
...translated. The English poet says : In vain for him th' officious wife prepares The fire fair blazing and the vestment warm; In vain his little children,...artless innocence, alas ! Nor wife, nor children, moreshallhe behold, Nor friends, nor sacred home. This is rendered in French, : " Envain en l'attendant... | |
 | 1809 - 402 pages
...prepares The fire fair-blazing, and the vestiaeut warm; In vain his little children, peeping ont Inta the mingling storm, demand their sire, With tears...innocence. Alas ! Nor wife, nor children, more shall he behold ; N«r friends, nor sacred home. On every nerve The deadly Winter seizes ; shuts up sense;... | |
 | John Young - 1810 - 432 pages
...said, in a case somewhat similar, In vain for him Hi' officious wife prepares The fire fair blazing, and the vestment warm ; In vain his little children,...innocence. — Alas ! Nor wife, nor children, more shall he behold ; Nor friends ; nor sacred home.1 Here are the same images. The blazing fire ; the busy wife,... | |
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