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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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Memoirs of the Life, Writings, and Character, Literary ..., Volume 25

Olinthus Gregory - 1828 - 492 pages
...season it particulary adverts : 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 mingled storm, demand their sire With tears of artless innocence. Alas! Nor wife, nor children, more...
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Murray's English Reader

Lindley Murray, Jeremiah Goodrich - 1829 - 318 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, peeping out. Into the mingled storm, demand Uicir sire, \Vith tears of artless innocence. Alas ! Nor wife, nor children,...
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Studies in Poetry: Embracing Notices of the Lives and Writings of the Best ...

George Barrell Cheever - 1830 - 516 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 he behold, Nor friends, nor sacred home. On every, nerve The deadly...
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Select British Poets: Containing the Works of Goldsmith, Thomson, Gray ...

Thomas F. Walker - 1830 - 256 pages
...children, and his friends unseen. In vain for him the officious wife prepares The tire 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 home. On every nerve The deadly...
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The English Reader: Or, Pieces in Prose and Poetry, Selected from the Best ...

Lindley Murray - 1830 - 244 pages
...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...nor sacred home. On every nerve The deadly winter seiyes; shuts up sense ; And, o'er his inmost vitals creeping cold, - Lays him along the snows a stiffen'd...
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Chambers's Cyclopædia of English Literature: A History ..., Volumes 3-4

Robert Chambers - 1830 - 844 pages
...children, and Ын friends, unseen. In vain for him the officious wife prepares The fire fair-blazing, udgments and ииташТ their sire With tears oí artlese innocence. Alas ! Kor wife nor children more shall he...
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Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 29

1831 - 1070 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 he behold ; Nor friends, nor sacred home. On every nerve The deadly...
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The Works of Cowper and Thomson: Including Many Letters and Poems Never ...

William Cowper - 1832 - 602 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 (he mingling storm, demand their sire, With tears of artless innocence. Alas ! Nor wife, nor children...
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The anniversary calendar, natal book, and universal mirror, Volume 1

Anniversary calendar - 1832 - 548 pages
...him night resistless closes fast. 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 he behold. — Thomson. RIvERS arise ; whether thou be the son...
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The Cambridge Book of Poetry and Song

Charlotte Fiske Bates - 1832 - 1022 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,...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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