 | Arethusa Hall - Readers - 1851 - 422 pages
...length some pity warmed the master's breast, — 'T was then his threshold first received a guest; — Slow creaking turns the door with jealous care, And half he welcomes in the shivering pair; One frugal fagot lights the naked walls, And nature's fervor through their limbs recalls... | |
 | Thomas Cogswell Upham - Holiness - 1851 - 474 pages
...At length some pity warmed the master's breast, ('T was then his threshold first received a guest ;) Slow creaking turns the door with jealous care, And half he welcomes in the shivering pair ; One frugal fagot lights the naked walls, And Nature's fervor through their limbs recalls... | |
 | English literature - 1852 - 248 pages
...At length some pity warm'd the master's breast ('Twas then his threshold first received a guest) ; Slow creaking turns the door with jealous care, And half he welcomes in the shivering pair : One frugal fagot lights the naked walls, And Nature's fervor through their limbs recalls... | |
 | English literature - 1852 - 460 pages
...At length some pity warm'd the master's breast ('Twas then his threshold first received a guest) ; Slow creaking turns the door with jealous care, And half he welcomes in the shivering pair : One frugal fagot lights the naked walls, And Nature's fervor through their limbs recalls... | |
 | Leigh Hunt - English literature - 1852 - 470 pages
...At length some pity warm'd the master's breast ('Twas then his threshold first received a guest) ; Slow creaking turns the door with jealous care, And half he welcomes in the shivering pair : One frugal fagot lights the naked walls, And Nature's fervor through their limbs recalls... | |
 | Oskar Ludwig Bernhard Wolff - English poetry - 1852 - 438 pages
...some pity warm'd the master's breast, ('Twas then his threshold first receiv'da guest) ; Slow creeking turns the door with jealous care, And half he welcomes in the shivering pair: One frugal fagot lights the naked walls, And nature's fervour through their limbs recalls:... | |
 | H. C. Foster - English poetry - 1853 - 378 pages
...length some pity warmed the master's breast, — 'Twas then his threshold first received a guest ; — Slow creaking turns the door with jealous care, And half he welcomes in the shivering pair ; One frugal fagot lights the naked walls, And nature's fervor through their limbs recalls... | |
 | J H. Aitken - Elocution - 1853 - 378 pages
...At length, sbme pity warmed the master's breast ; ('Twas then his threshold first received a guest) Slow creaking turns the door with jealous care, And half he welcomes in the shivering pair." There are certain colloquial phrases which the reader is apt to class with the parenthesis,... | |
 | Epes Sargent - Religious poetry, English - 1854 - 388 pages
...length some pity warmed the master's breast, — 'Twas then his threshold first received a guest ; — Slow creaking turns the door with jealous care, And half he welcomes in the shivering pair ; One frugal fagot lights the naked walls, And nature's fervor through their limbs recalls... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - English poetry - 1855 - 276 pages
...strikingly contrasted ; and many touches of true poetry occur. How vivid this couplet, for instance — " Slow creaking turns the door with jealous care, And half he welcomes in the shivering pair ! " How picturesque the following — " A fresher green the smiling leaves display,... | |
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Slow creaking turns the door with jealous care, And half he welcomes in the shivering pair... 
