 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 Aikin - English poetry - 1820 - 832 pages
...children, peeping out Into the mingling storm, demand their sire, With tears of artless innocence. ht, and sighs that waft to Heaven, Grace shines around her with stiffen'd corse, Stretch'd out, and bleaching in the northern blast. Ah ! little think the gay licentious... | |
 | Lindley Murray - Children - 1821 - 278 pages
...little children, peeping out Into the mingled storm, demand their sire, With tears of artless innocence. Alas ! Nor wife, nor children, more shall he behold...inmost vitals creeping cold, Lays him along the snows a stiffen'd corse, Stretch'd out and bleaching in the northern blast. Ah, little think the gay licentious... | |
 | Lindley Murray - Anthologies - 1821 - 280 pages
...mingled storm, demand their sire, : > With tears of artless innocence. Alas! Hor wife, Tf^chiTdr'eii, more shall he behold ; Nor friends, nor sacred home....And, o'er his inmost vitals creeping cold, Lays him alonsr the snows a stiffen'd corse, Stretrh'd out and bleaching in the northern blast. 6. Ah, little... | |
 | Lindley Murray - Children - 1821 - 280 pages
...little 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... | |
 | J H. Duckett - 1821 - 126 pages
...vain his little children, peeping out " — : demand their sire " With tears of artless innocence. Alas! " Nor wife, nor children, more shall he behold " Nor friends, nor sacred home." These meditations were at last broken by a no very unpleasant cause; we perceived on turning an angle... | |
 | British prose literature - 1821 - 324 pages
...little 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. " If the fairest examples," proceeds the Adventurer, " ought to be placed before us in an age prone... | |
 | Classical poetry - 1822 - 278 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,...vitals creeping cold, Lays him along the snows, a stiften'd corse, Stretch'd out, and bleaching in the northern blast. Ah! little think the gay licentious... | |
 | William Jillard Hort - English literature - 1822 - 234 pages
...little children, peeping out Into the mingling storm, demand their sire With tears of artless innocence. Alas ! Nor wife, nor children more shall he behold,...vitals creeping cold, Lays him along the snows, a stiffen'd corse, Stretch'd out, and bleaching in the northern blast. THE WINTE& MORNING WALK. Cowper.... | |
 | Lindley Murray, Jeremiah Goodrich - Literature - 1822 - 322 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;...inmost vitals creeping cold, Lays him along the snows a stiffen'd corse, Stretch'd out and bleaching in the northern blast. 6. Ah, little think the gay licentious... | |
 | Charles Phillips - Biography - 1822 - 434 pages
...you have 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 his dungeon, and leads him forth to light and life; but the minister of death... | |
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