 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 mingling storm, demand their sire, With tears of artless innocence. Alas ! Nor wife, nor children, more shall...  The Practical Teacher - Page cxcii1884Full view - About this book
 | John Philpot Curran - Ireland - 1811 - 358 pages
...had seen the olive branch sent in to 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 his dungeon, and leads him forth to light and life, but the minister of death... | |
 | John Philpot Curran - Ireland - 1811 - 368 pages
...had seen the olive branch sent in to 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 unburs his dungeon, and leads him forth to light and life, but the minister of death... | |
 | James Thomson - 1813 - 346 pages
...peeping out Into the mingling storm, demand their sire, With tears of artless innocence. Alas! 315 Nor wife, nor children, more shall he behold ; Nor...cold, Lays him along the snows, a stiffened corse ; 320 Stretch'd out, and bleaching in the northern blast. Ah little think the gay licentious proud,... | |
 | James Thomson, Samuel Johnson - 1813 - 180 pages
...Jittle 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 J he deadly winter seizes, shuts up sense, Anil o'er his inmost vitals creeping cold, lays him along... | |
 | Lindley Murray - Readers - 1813 - 276 pages
...tears of artless innoeenee. Alas! Nor wife, nor ehildren, more shall he behold ; N&nftiends, nor saered home. On every nerve The deadly winter seizes ; shuts up sense ; . And o'er his inmost vitals ereeping eold, . Lays him along the suow asiiffe'n'd eorse, Streteh'd out and Iilewehing in the northern... | |
 | Stephen Barlow - Ireland - 1814 - 556 pages
...seen the olive-branch sent into his little firk, but Oo sign that the waters had subsided. ' Ala& ! nor wife, nor children, more shall he behold; nor friends, nor sacred home!' No seraph jnercy unbars his dungeon, and leads him forth to light and life; but the minister of death... | |
 | Rodolphus Dickinson - Elocution - 1815 - 214 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 bome. On every nerve The deadly winter seizes ; shuts up sense ; And, o'er his inmost vitals creeping... | |
 | James Thomson - 1816 - 256 pages
...their aiifo With tears of artless innocence. Alas ! Npr wife,.nec children, more, shall he beUoldij, Nor friends, nor sacred home. On every nerve The deadly...up sense ;? And, o'er his, inmost. vitals creeping eoW, J^ays him, along; the snows^a, stiffened «orsel Stretch'd out, and bleaching in the northern... | |
 | Lindley Murray - English language - 1816 - 328 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 friends, nor sacred home. On ev'ry nerve The deadly winter seizes; shuts up sense; And o'er his inmost vitals creeping cold, Lays... | |
 | Thomas Gray, John Mitford - 1816 - 446 pages
...Philip, 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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