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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... "
The Poetical Works of James Thomson: With His Last Corrections, Additions ... - Page 137
by James Thomson, John Aikin - 1804
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The Columbian Reader: Comprising a New and Various Selection of Elegant ...

Rodolphus Dickinson - 1815 - 214 pages
...children, and his friends unseeft. In vain for him the officious wife prepares The fire fair-blazing, and the vestment warm ;., In vain his little children,...their sire, With tears of artless innocence. Alas ! Nor wife, nor children, more shall he behold. Nor friends, nor sacred bome. On every nerve The deadly...
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The seasons; to which is added the life of the author

James Thomson - 1816 - 256 pages
...unseen, Jn vain for him th' officious, wife prepares The fire fair-blazing, and the vestment TKaroj 4 In vain his little children, peeping out ,• . . Into the mingling storm, demand their aiifo With tears of artless innocence. Alas ! Npr wife,.nec children, more, shall he beUoldij, Nor...
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The English Reader: Or, Pieces in Prose and Poetry, Selected from the Best ...

Lindley Murray - 1816 - 328 pages
...children, and his friends unseen. 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 mingled storm, demand their sire, With tears of artless innocence. Alas ! Nor wife, nor children more...
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The poems, with critical notes; a life of the author; and an essay on his ...

Thomas Gray, John Mitford - 1816 - 446 pages
...ix. : " Si omnes juris consulti in unum conferantur." Ovidii Met. iii. 715. Ver. S3. Uxorum] " Alas ! Nor wife, nor children, more shall he behold Nor friends, nor sacred home." Thomson's Winter, ver. 315. Subjectum, stragemque suam, maesta arva, minaci Despicit imperio, soloque...
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Blackwood's Magazine, Volume 29

1831 - 1044 pages
...children, and his friends unseen. In vain for him th' officious wife prepares The fire fair-blazing, and the vestment warm; In vain his little children,...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...
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The Contemplative Philosopher: Or, Short Essays on the Various ..., Volume 1

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 sire, With tears of artless innocence. Alas ! Nor wife, nor children, more shall he behold, Nor friends, nor sacred home ! With respect to the...
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New Monthly Magazine, and Universal Register, Volume 10

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...their sire, With tears of artless innocence; alas ! Nor wife, nor children more shall he behold, Nor friend», nor sacred home! POPB. Would not the following...
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The baptist Magazine

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...
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The Seasons, and Castle of Indolence ...

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 of artless innocence. Alas ! Nor wife, nor children, more shall he behold ; Nor friends, nor sacred home. On every nerve The deadly...
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The Monthly repository (and review)., Volume 13

1818 - 860 pages
...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 the door of his dungeon and leads him forth to light and life, but the minister...
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