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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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Le stagioni

James Thomson - 1826 - 438 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; Nor friends, nor sncred home. On every nerve The deadly winter seizes; shuts up sense; And, o'er his inmost vitals creeping...
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The English Reader, Or, Pieces in Prose and Poetry: Selected from the Best ...

Lindley Murray - 1826 - 224 pages
...thoughtless hours in giddy mirth, And wanton, often cruel riot, waste ; Into the mingled storm, demand their sire, With tears of artless innocence. Alas! Nor wife, nor children, more shall he behold j Nor friends, nor sacred home. On every nerve The deadly winter seizes; shuts up sense; And, o'er...
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Murray's English Reader: Or, Pieces in Prose and Poetry, Selected from the ...

Lindley Murray, John Walker - 1826 - 314 pages
...warm \ ,' 5. 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 be behold ; Nor friends, nor sacred home. On every nerve The deadly winter seizes ; shuts up sense;...
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Le stagioni

James Thomson - 1826 - 430 pages
...children peeping out luto thè tningling storrn, dcmand their sire, With tears of artless innocence. Alasi 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 bis intnost vitais creeping cold,...
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The English Reader, Or, Pieces in Prose and Poetry: Selected from the Best ...

Lindley Murray - 1827 - 276 pages
...; In vain his little chndren, peeping out Into the mingled storm, demand their sire, With tears oT artless 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, o'er his inmost vitals creeping cold,...
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An Illustration of the Principles of Elocution ...

William Brittainham Lacey - 1828 - 308 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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Memoirs of the Life, Writings, and Character, Literary ..., Volume 25

Olinthus Gregory - 1828 - 492 pages
...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,...more shall he behold, Nor friends, nor sacred home. Ver. 311. " It is not unlikely that Thomson, rather than Lucretius, has been copied in this delineation...
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The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction, Volume 9

1828 - 488 pages
...the vestments warm ; In vain his little children, peeping out Into the mingling storm, demand their sire With tears of artless innocence— alas ! Nor...nor children more shall he behold, Nor friends nor Kacred home." It is not, however, a perpetual succession of storms ; there are many fine as well as...
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The English Reader: Or, Pieces in Prose and Verse, from the Best Writers ...

Lindley Murray - 1828 - 256 pages
...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 ; 1 Nor friends, nor sacred home. On every nerve The deadly winter seizes ^ shuts up sense ; And, o'er...
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An Essay on Elocution: With Elucidatory Passages from Various Authors

J[ohn] H[anbury]. Dwyer - 1828 - 314 pages
...had seen the olive branch sent into his little ark, but no %ign 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 death...
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