 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
 | Lindley Murray - Readers and speakers - 1828 - 256 pages
...their sire, With tears of artless innocence. Alas ! Nor wife, nor children, more shall he behold ; 1 Nor friends, nor sacred home. On every nerve The deadly...winter seizes ^ shuts up sense ; And, o'er his inmost vitfxls creeping cold, Lays him along the snows a stiffen'd corse, Stretch'd out, and bleaching in... | |
 | Olinthus Gregory - Authors, English - 1828 - 492 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. Ver. 311. " It is not unlikely that Thomson, rather than Lucretius, has been copied in this delineation... | |
 | J[ohn] H[anbury]. Dwyer - Elocution - 1828 - 314 pages
...had seen the olive branch sent into his little ark, but no %ign 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... | |
 | 1828 - 488 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 Kacred home." It is not, however, a perpetual succession of storms ; there are many fine as well as... | |
 | Thomas Curtis (of Grove house sch, Islington) - 438 pages
...Pni«B. When the fierce north-vind, with his fiery forces Rears up the Baltick to a foaming fury. I'*"1On every nerve The deadly winter seizes, shuts up sense,...Stretched out, and bleaching in the northern blast. Tkxux. Ausonia soon received her wondering guest, And equal wonder in her turn confessed, To see her... | |
 | Louis Du Pont Syle - English poetry - 1894 - 488 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...creeping cold, Lays him along the snows a stiffened corse — 320 Stretched out, and bleaching in the northern blast. * * * Now, all amid the rigors of the year,... | |
 | Thomas Gray - English literature - 1894 - 250 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." 96. Glebe. From Latin glaeba, meaning the ground. 29-32. The rimes in this stanza are scarcely exact... | |
 | Thomas Gray - English literature - 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... | |
 | Jules Lefèvre-Deumier - English literature - 1895 - 350 pages
...children, peeping out Into thé rningling storm, demand tlieir sire, With tears of artless innocence. Alas ! Nor wife, nor children more shall he behold,...On every nerve The deadly winter seizes; shuts up sensé; And, o'er liis inmost yitals creeping, cold Lays him along thé snows, a stiffen'd corse, Stretch'd... | |
 | Thomas Corwin - Legislators - 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... | |
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