| Joseph Emerson - 1832 - 122 Seiten
...children and his friends, unseen. In vain for him th' officious wife prepares 36 The fire fair-blazing and the vestment warm ; In vain his little children,...mingling storm, demand their sire, With tears of artless mnocence. Alas! 40 Nor wife, nor children more shall he behold, Nor friends, nor sacred home. On every... | |
| James Hedderwick - 1833 - 232 Seiten
...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... | |
| James Thomson - 1836 - 164 Seiten
...children, and his friends unseen. In vain for him th' officious wife prepares The fire fair-hlazing, and the vestment warm; In vain his little children,...their sire, With tears of artless innocence. Alas ! Nor wife, nor children, more shall he hehold ; Nor friends, nor sacred home. On every nerve The deadly... | |
| 1836 - 424 Seiten
...unseen. In vain for him th' officious wife prepares The fire fair blazing, and the vestment warm, lu 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. On ev'ry nerve -*•... | |
| 1837 - 646 Seiten
...envied kiss to share." — GRAY. "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." — THOMSON.* * Thomson was diligently read and studied by Gray. Gilbert Wakefield has discovered in... | |
| John Hoppus - 1837 - 372 Seiten
...dangerous chase, many a hardy adventurer has never returned, having perished on the mountains : '. . 'Alas! Nor wife, nor children, more shall he behold, Nor friends, nor sacred home ! On erery nerve The deadly winter siezes, shuts up sense, And o'er his inmost vitals creeping cold, Lays... | |
| 1837 - 596 Seiten
...exile, and repeated the exquisite words of the poet, (which touchingly referred to his own clients,) " Nor wife — nor children more shall he behold, Nor friends — nor sacred home," in a tone and emphasis, which testified the agony of his own feelings, a deep and soul-rending sob... | |
| John Barton Derby - 1837 - 192 Seiten
...had an opportunity, months afterwards, to write it out. Here it is! MY CHILDREN. A VISION. - Alas ! nor wife, nor children, more, shall he behold, nor friends, nor sacred home.' I MEET them! at the solemn hours, When balmy sleep hath soothed my pain ; And faithful memory restores,... | |
| Henry Rogers - 1838 - 150 Seiten
...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." Or the following exquisite... | |
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