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" 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... "
Monthly Review; Or Literary Journal Enlarged - Page 221
1803
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The Eagle: A Magazine Support by Members of St. John's College, Volumes 38-39

1917 - 688 pages
...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...more shall he behold, Nor friends, nor sacred home. (Winter, 11. 311 el seq.) When in the Elegy Gray touches on the theme he is preoccupied with the lot...
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English Poets of the Eighteenth Century

Ernest Bernbaum - 1918 - 436 pages
...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...more shall he behold, Nor friends nor sacred home: on every nerve The deadly Winter seizes, shuts up sense, And, o'er his inmost vitals creeping cold,...
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Oratory, British and Irish: The Great Age (from the Accession of George the ...

Godfrey Locker Lampson - 1918 - 628 pages
...had 265 seen the olive branch sent into his little ark, but no sign that 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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English Poets of the Eighteenth Century

Ernest Bernbaum - 1918 - 412 pages
...children, peeping out Into the mingling storm, demand their sire, With tears of artless innocence. Alasl Nor wife nor children more shall he behold, Nor friends nor sacred home: on every nerve The deadly Winter seizes, shuts up sense, And, o'er his inmost vitals creeping cold,...
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An English Anthology of Prose and Poetry, Shewing the Main Stream of English ...

Sir Henry John Newbolt - 1922 - 1032 pages
...the vestment warm ; In vain his little children, peeping out Into the mingling storm, demand their sire, With tears of artless innocence. Alas ! Nor...more shall he behold, Nor friends, nor sacred home. On every nerve The deadly Winter seizes ; shuts up sense ; And, o'er his inmost vitals creeping cold,...
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English Childhood: Wordsworth's Treatment of Childhood in the Light of ...

Adolph Charles Babenroth - 1922 - 420 pages
...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 he behold. . . . Because he is awake to social wrongs, Thomson frankly makes himself the poetic advocate of the...
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The Dawn of Juvenile Literature in England ...

Gesiena Andreae - 1925 - 150 pages
...children in Winter: In vain his little children, peeping out Into the mingling storm, demand their sire, With tears of artless innocence. Alas! Nor wife,...more shall he behold, Nor friends, nor sacred home x In the last lines of Winter, Thomson shows himself a true follower of Shaftesbury, sharing his philosophy...
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Childhood in English Non-dramatic Literature from 1557 to 1798, Volume 194

Francis La Mar Janney - 1925 - 154 pages
...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...children, more shall he behold, Nor friends, nor sacred home.16 In Mallet'sjTAe Excursion, written two years later, there occurs a description of the destruction...
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Heath Readings in the Literature of England

Tom Peete Cross, Clement Tyson Goode - 1927 - 1432 pages
...the vestment warm; 90 In vain his little children, peeping out Into the mingling storm, demand their 35 Than ye shal saye, another day, that be my wyked dede Ye were betrayed; wherfore, good maide, On every nerve 95 The deadly Winter seizes, shuts up sense, And, o'er his inmost vitals creeping cold,...
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Anthology of Romanticism, Volume 2

Ernest Bernbaum - 1929 - 490 pages
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