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 he... The Seasons: And The Castle of Indolence - Page lixby James Thomson - 1841 - 271 pagesFull view - About this book
| James Thomson - 1793 - 300 pages
...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...their sire, With tears of artless innocence. Alas! 315 Nor wife, nor children, more shall he behold; Nor friends, nor sacred home. On every nerve The... | |
| Nathan Drake - English literature - 1800 - 482 pages
...Jri 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...more shall he behold, Nor friends, nor sacred home. Winter, 311. NUMBER II. • Lucretius • Doctrina solers idem, clarusque Poeta, Antiqui vatis reparat... | |
| James Thomson - 1800 - 302 pages
...' 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...Alas ! Nor wife , nor children , more shall he behold , I Nor friends , nor sacred home. On every nerve ; The deadly Winter seizes ; shuts up sense ; ; And... | |
| English poetry - 1800 - 322 pages
...tire 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....Alas! Nor wife, nor children more shall he behold, Nor f'iifiids, nor sacred home. On ev'ry nerve The deadly winter seizes; shuts up sense; And o'er his inmost... | |
| James Thomson - 1802 - 344 pages
...unseen. 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...vitals creeping cold, Lays him along the snows, a stiffened corse, Stretch'd out, and bleaching in the northern blast. Ah little think the gay licentious... | |
| James Thomson - 1802 - 340 pages
...unseen. 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...vitals creeping cold, Lays him along the snows, a stiffened corse, Stretch'd out, and bleaching in the northern blast. Ah little think the gay licentious... | |
| James Thomson - English poetry - 1802 - 320 pages
...,./,/,„//,: 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...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... | |
| James Thomson - 1803 - 268 pages
...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...home. On every nerve The deadly Winter seizes ; shuts np sense ; And , o'er his inmost vitals creeping cold , Lays him along the snows , a stiffened corse... | |
| James Thomson - 1803 - 186 pages
...children, and his friends unseen. In vain for him th' officious wife prepares The fire fair-hlazing, and the vestment warm ; In rain his little children,...their sire, With tears of artless innocence. Alas ! If or wife, nor children, more shall he hehold. Nor friends, nor sacred home. On every nerve The... | |
| 1803 - 572 pages
...the vestment wa- m ; In vain his little children, peeping out Into the mingling storm, demand thrir sire, With tears of artless innocence. Alas ! Nor...more shall he behold, Nor friends, nor sacred home." The word officious is here used in its primitive though not most nsual signification, of doing good... | |
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