 | James Thomson - 1838 - 236 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... | |
 | William Minto - 1894 - 438 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,...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... | |
 | Thomas Gray - 1894 - 250 pages
...describing the man dying in the snow : " In vain for him the officious wife prepares The fire fair-blazing and the vestment warm: In vain his little children,...demand their sire With tears of artless innocence. Alas I Nor wife, nor children, more shall he behold, Nor friends, nor sacred home." 26. Glebe. From Latin... | |
 | William Minto - 1894 - 434 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,...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... | |
 | Thomas Gray - 1894 - 252 pages
...children, peeping out Into the mingling storm, demand their sire With tears of artless innocence. Alas I Nor wife, nor children, more shall he behold, Nor friends, nor sacred home." 26. Glebe. From Latin glaeba, meaning the ground. 29-32. The rimes in this stanza are scarcely exact... | |
 | Thomas Gray - 1894 - 400 pages
...viri." — HORACE, Epode, ii. 39. " 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." —THOMSON, Winter, 311. 22. ply... | |
 | Thomas Gray - 1895 - 190 pages
...quotes Thomson, Winter, 311 : " In vain for him the officious wife prepares The fire fair-blazing, and the vestment warm; In vain his little children,...Into the mingling storm, demand their sire With tears ot ardess innocence." Wakefield cites The Idler, 103 : " There are few things, not purely evil, of... | |
 | Samuel Austin Allibone - 1896 - 794 pages
...children, twined around his neck, And emulous to please him, calling forth The fond paternal soul. THOMSON. In vain his little children, peeping out Into the mingling storm, demand their sire. THOMSON. Trailing clouds of glory, do we come From God, who is our home : Heaven lies about us in our... | |
 | Thomas Corwin - 1896 - 502 pages
...kill," must be his fate; or exiled from home, he must seek in other lands a refuge from the grave: "Nor wife nor children more shall he behold, Nor friends, nor sacred home." How often have we hailed on these happy shores a Russian brother from the far Borysthenes, or from... | |
 | Marcus Davis Gilman - 1897 - 370 pages
...but will serve for the adjacent States. View of Morgan, as confined in the dungeon at Fort Niagara. Nor wife, nor children more shall he behold, Nor friends — nor sacred home ! " In our boasted Republic, the blood of an American, who was taken from his home, bound, tortured,... | |
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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... 
