 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
 | Richard Lobb - 1817 - 430 pages
...the officions wife prepares The fire fair-blazing, and the vestment warmi In vain his little childen, peeping out Into the mingling storm, demand their...innocence. Alas ! Nor wife, nor children, more shall he behold, Nor friends, nor sacred home ! With respect to the philosophical account of this well-known... | |
 | Thomas Campbell, Samuel Carter Hall, Edward Bulwer Lytton Baron Lytton, Theodore Edward Hook, Thomas Hood, William Harrison Ainsworth, William Ainsworth - 1818 - 624 pages
...snow ; " In vain for him the officious wife prepares The fire fair blazing, and the vestment warm; Tn vain his little children peeping out Into the mingling...innocence; alas ! Nor wife, nor children more shall he behold, Nor friend», nor sacred home! POPB. Would not the following couplet from Pope's Essay on... | |
 | James Thomson, Dr. Johnson - 1818 - 316 pages
...wife prepares The fire fair-blazing, and the vestment warm ; In vain his little children, peeping ont Into the mingling storm, demand their sire, With tears...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... | |
 | 1818 - 510 pages
...vain for him th' officious wife prepares The fire fair blazing, and the vestments warm; In vain 1пэ little children, peeping out Into the mingling storm,...their sire, "With tears of artless innocence. Alas ! 2ior wife, nor children, more shall he behold, Nor friends, nor sacred home." О shall not our gratitude... | |
 | John Aikin - 1820 - 832 pages
...the wrung bosom of the dying man, His wife, his children, and his friends unseen. In vain for him tb' prayer accepted, and each wish resign *d ; Labour...that delight, and sighs that waft to Heaven, Grace he behold, Nor friends, nor sacred home. On every nerve The deadly Winter seizes ; shuts up sense ;... | |
 | 1821 - 324 pages
...of the foregoing lines in Homer : In vain for him the 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. " If the fairest examples," proceeds the Adventurer, " ought... | |
 | Lindley Murray - 1821 - 280 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 The deadly winter seizes ; shuts up sense ;... | |
 | J H. Duckett - 1821 - 126 pages
..." The fire fair blazing, and the vestments warm; " In vain his little children, peeping out " — : demand their sire " With tears of artless innocence. Alas! " Nor wife, nor children, more shall he behold " Nor friends, nor sacred home." These meditations were at last broken by a no very unpleasant... | |
 | 1822 - 278 pages
...wrung bosom of the dying man, His wife, his children, and his friends unseen. In vain for him the' officious wife prepares The fire fair-blazing, and...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 - 1822 - 174 pages
...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...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 ;... | |
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