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" For them no more the blazing hearth shall burn. Or busy housewife ply her evening care; No children run to lisp their sire's return, Or climb his knees the envied kiss to share. "
... Horace: the Odes, Epodes and Carmen saeculare - Page 391
by Horace - 1902 - 463 pages
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The American Elocutionist: Comprising 'Lessons in Enunciation', 'Exercises ...

William Russell - 1851 - 392 pages
...Each in his narrow cell forever laid, The rude forefathers of the hamlet sleep." "For them no more the blazing hearth shall burn, Or busy housewife ply her evening care ; No children run to lisp their sire's return, Or climb his knees, the envied kiss to share." Moderate....
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Choice descriptive poetry, selected by a lady

Choice descriptive poetry - 1852 - 112 pages
...shrill clarion, or the echoing horn — No more shall rouse them from their lowly bed. For them no more the blazing hearth shall burn, Or busy housewife ply her evening care ; No children run to lisp their sire's return, Or climb his knees, the envied kiss to share. Oft did...
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A Book for a Corner: Or, Selections in Prose and Verse from ..., Volume 1

1852 - 460 pages
...shrill clarmn^or the echoing horn, No more shall rouse them from their lowly bed. For them no more the blazing hearth shall burn, Or busy housewife ply her evening care ; No children run to lisp their sire's return, Or climb his knees the envied kiss to share. x Oft did...
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A Book for a Corner; Or, Selections in Prose and Verse from ..., Volumes 1-2

Leigh Hunt - 1852 - 470 pages
...shrill clarion, or the echoing horn, No more shall rouse them from their lowly bed. For them no more the blazing hearth shall burn, Or busy housewife ply her evening care ; No children run to lisp their sire's return, Or climb his knees the envied kiss to share. Oft did...
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A Step from the New World to the Old, and Back Again: With ..., Volume 1

Henry Philip Tappan - 1852 - 318 pages
...shrill clarion, or the echoing horn, No more shall rouse them from their lowly bed. " For them no more the blazing hearth shall burn, Or busy housewife ply her evening care ; No children run to lisp their sire's return, Or climb his knees the envied kiss to share. " Oft did...
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The Muses of Resistance: Laboring-Class Women's Poetry in Britain, 1739-1796

Donna Landry - 1990 - 344 pages
...Elegy, from which Gray's poor have been banished, of course, since they are dead: For them no more the blazing hearth shall burn, Or busy housewife ply her evening care: No children run to lisp their sire's return, Or climb his knees the envied kiss to share. (21-24) In...
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Best Remembered Poems

Martin Gardner - 1992 - 226 pages
...shrill clarion, or the echoing horn, No more shall rouse them from their lowly bed. For them no more the blazing hearth shall burn, Or busy housewife ply her evening care: No children run to lisp their sire's return, Or climb his knees the envied kiss to share. Oft did the...
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The English Rural Community: Image and Analysis

Brian Short, School of Cultural and Community Studies Brian Short - 1992 - 260 pages
...shrill clarion, or the echoing horn, No more shall rouse them from their lowly bed. For them no more the blazing hearth shall burn, Or busy housewife ply her evening care: No children run to lisp their sire's return, Or climb his knees the envied kiss to share. Oft did the...
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Virgil as Orpheus: A Study of the Georgics

M. Owen Lee - 1996 - 192 pages
...Compare Lucretius 3.895-96. Horace (Odes 2.14.2122) uses Lucretius' passage, as does Thomas Gray in his Elegy: For them no more the blazing hearth shall burn. Or busy housewife ply her evening care: No children run to lisp their sire's return, Or climb his knees the envied kiss to share. But what...
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Two Poets of the Oxford Movement: John Keble and John Henry Newman

Rodney Stenning Edgecombe - 1996 - 304 pages
...While this recalls the list of deprivations in Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard ("For them no more the blazing hearth shall burn, / Or busy housewife ply her evening care"), 58 it advances none of Gray's countervailing compensations. Instead Keble uses those leaves to rebuke...
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