 | 1828 - 818 pages
...visitation of Madras and Southern India. That heaviness of heart was, alas ! but too sadly prophetic ! Nor wife nor children more shall he behold, Nor friends, nor sacred home. THOMPSON. The voyage was " tedious and not over pleasant." There were on board the ship thirty miserable... | |
 | John Aikin - 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 On every nerve The deadly Winter seizes ; shuts up sense ; And, o'er his inmost vitals creeping cold,... | |
 | Lindley Murray - 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,... | |
 | 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... | |
 | 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... | |
 | 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, Nor friends, nor sacred home. On every nerve The deadly Winter seizes ; shuts up sense ; And o'er his inmost vitals creeping cold,... | |
 | Lindley Murray, Jeremiah Goodrich - 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; Nor friends, nor sacred home. On every nerve The deadly winter seizes; shuts up sense; And, o'er his inmost vitals creeping cold,... | |
 | William Jillard Hort - 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, Nor friends, nor sacred home. On every nerve The deadly Winter seizes ; shuts up sense, And o'er his inmost vitals creeping cold,... | |
 | Lionel Thomas Berguer - 1823 - 266 pages
...children, peeping oat 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. ' If the fairest examples,' proceeds the Adventurer, ' ought to be placed before us in an age prone... | |
 | Soldier - 1824 - 518 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 home. On ev'ry nerve " The deadly winter seizes; shuts up sense; " And o'er his inmost vitals creeping cold,... | |
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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... 
