 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 he...  Musings of a Recluse ... - Page 5by John Barton Derby - 1837 - 180 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Lindley Murray - 1826 - 286 pages
...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 every nerve, The deadly winter seizes ; shuts up sense ; And, o'er his inmost vitals creeping cold,... | |
 | 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,... | |
 | James Thomson - 1826 - 438 pages
...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... | |
 | 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... | |
 | William Brittainham Lacey - 1828 - 308 pages
...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 sacred home. On every nerve The deadly Winter seizes ; shuts up sense ; And, o'er his inmost vitals creeping cold,... | |
 | Olinthus Gregory - 1828 - 492 pages
...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. Ver. 311. " It is not unlikely that Thomson, rather than Lucretius, has been copied in this delineation... | |
 | 1828 - 488 pages
...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 Kacred home." It is not, however, a perpetual succession of storms ; there are many fine as well as... | |
 | Lindley Murray, Jeremiah Goodrich - 1829 - 318 pages
...children, peeping out. Into the mingled storm, demand Uicir sire, \Vith tears of artless innocence. Alas ! Nor wife, nor children, more shall he behold ; Nor friends, nor sacred home. On every nerve The deadly winter beizes ; shuts up sense; And, o'er his inmost vitals creeping cold,... | |
 | Thomas F. Walker - 1830 - 256 pages
...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 sacred home. On every nerve The deadly Winter seizes ; shuts up sense; And, o'er his inmost vitals creeping cold,... | |
 | George Barrell Cheever - 1830 - 516 pages
...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 sacred home. On every, nerve The deadly Winter seizes ; shuts up sense ; And, o'er his inmost vitals creeping cold,... | |
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