 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...  Blackwood's Magazine - Página 2971831Visualização completa - Sobre este livro
 | James Thomson - 1880 - 548 páginas
...wrung bosom of the dying man — His wife, his children, and his friends unseen. In vain for him the officious wife prepares The fire fair-blazing, and...innocence. Alas ! Nor wife, nor children, more shall he behold, Nor friends, nor sacred home. On every nerve The deadly Winter seizes ; shuts up sense ;... | |
 | Frederick Saunders - 1880 - 474 páginas
...snow, the poet thus continues : — In vain for him the officious wife prepares The fire fair blazing, and the vestment warm ; In vain his little children,...innocence. Alas ! Nor wife nor children more shall he behold, Nor friends, nor sacred home. On every nerve The deadly winter seizes, shuts up sense, And... | |
 | Charlotte Fiske Bates - 1882 - 984 páginas
...His wife, his children, and his friends unseen. In vain for him the officious wife prepares The lire fair-blazing, and the vestment warm; In vain his little...innocence. Alas! Nor wife, nor children more shall he behold, Nor friends, nor sacred home. On every nerve The deadly winter seizes; shuts up sense; And,... | |
 | 1884 - 708 páginas
...manifestations ; but instead of abating, it increases the horrors of the situation. In vain for him the officious wife prepares The fire fair-blazing, and...demand their sire, With tears of artless innocence. This is a poetic expression of circumstances of tenderness, which we might criticise minutely; but... | |
 | Truths - 1885 - 572 páginas
...£«urtn«£>t0rm. — Thomson. TN vain for him the officious Wife prepares JL The fire fair blazing, and the vestment warm ; In vain his little children,...Innocence. Alas! Nor Wife, nor Children, more shall he behold, Nor friends, nor sacred home. On every nerve The deadly Winter seizes : shuts xip Sense,... | |
 | Thomas Gray - 1885 - 356 páginas
...exstruat lignis focum Lassi sub adventum viri." See also Thomson. Winter, 311 : " In vain for him the officious wife prepares The fire fair-blazing, and...demand their sire With tears of artless innocence." V. 24. " Interea dulces pendent circum oscula nati.1 Virg. Georg. ii. v. 523. W So Dryden, ed. Warton,... | |
 | Ludwig Herrig - 1885 - 752 páginas
...friends unseen. In vain for him th'officious wife prepares The fire fair-blazing, and the vestment lear, And thinner, clearer, further going! The horns...blowing! 10 Blow, let us hear the purple glens rep warm; Nor wife, nor children, more shall be behold, Nor friends, nor sacred home. On every nerve The... | |
 | Philip Gilbert Hamerton - 1886 - 364 páginas
...home Rush on his nerves, and call their vigor forth In many a vain attempt. ****** In vain for him the officious wife prepares The fire fair-blazing, and...innocence. Alas ! Nor wife nor children, more shall he behold ; Nor friends, nor sacred home. On every nerve The deadly Winter seizes ; shuts up sense... | |
 | Alexander Bain - 1887 - 298 páginas
...manifestations; but, instead of abating, it increases the horrors of the situation. In vain for him the officious wife prepares The fire fair-blazing, and...demand their sire, With tears of artless innocence. Here is a poetic expression of circumstances of tenderness, which we might criticize minutely ; but... | |
 | Henry Davenport Northrop - 1888 - 712 páginas
...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,...demand their sire With tears of artless innocence. Alas I Nor wife nor children more shall he behold, Nor friends, nor sacred home. On every nerve The deadly... | |
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