 | Alexander Pope - 1751 - 288 σελίδες
...know lefs joy than I. O Friend ! may each domeftic blifs be thine ! Be no unpleafing Melancholy mine : Me, let the tender office long engage, To rock the cradle of repofing Age, With lenient arts extend a Mother's breath, 410 Make Langour fmile, and fmooth the bed of Death,... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1751 - 286 σελίδες
...know lefs joy than I. O Friend ! may each domeftic blifs be thine I Be no unpleafing Melancholy mine : Me, let the tender office long engage, To rock the cradle of repofing Age, With lenient arts extend a Mother's breath, 41^ Make Langour fmile, and fmooth the bed of Death)... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1751 - 278 σελίδες
...know Ids joy than I. O Friend ! may each dome/He blifs be thine 1 Be no unpleafing Melancholy mine : Me, let the tender office long engage, To rock the cradle of repofmg Age, With lenient arts extend a Mother's breath, 4,0 Make Langour fmile, and fmooth the bed... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1752 - 434 σελίδες
...pathetic defcription of that filial Piety, in the exercife of which he makes his own happinefs to confift. Me let the tender office long engage To rock the Cradle of repofing Age j With lenient arts extend a Mother's breath, Make Languor fmile, and fmooth the bed of Death ^... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1754 - 278 σελίδες
...know lefs joy than I. O Friend ! may each domeftic blifs be thine ! Be no unplealing Melancholy mine : Me, let the tender office long engage, To rock the cradle of repofing Age, With lenient arts extend a Mother's breath, 410 Make Languor fmile, and fmooth the bed of Death,... | |
 | 1764 - 198 σελίδες
...xiii. p. 258. 10. O friend ! may each domeftic blifs be thine ! Be no unpleailng melancholy mine : Me, let the tender office long engage, To rock the cradle of repofing age, With lenient arts extend a mother's breath, Make languor fmile, and fmooth the bed of death, Explore... | |
 | Owen Ruffhead - 1769 - 600 σελίδες
...confift. " Oh friend ! may each domeftic blifs be " thine ! " Be no unpleafing melancholy mine: *' Me, let the tender office long engage, *' To rock the cradle of repofing age, *' With lenient arts extend a Mother's breath, *' Make languor fmile, and fmooth the bed of '... | |
 | Owen Ruffhead - 1769 - 592 σελίδες
...to confift. " Oh friend ! may each dome/lie blifs be " thine ! " Be no unpleafmg melancholy mine : " Me, let the tender office long engage, " To rock the cradle of rcpofing age, " With lenient arts extend a Mother's breath, " Make languor fmile, and fmooth the bed... | |
 | Owen Ruffhead - 1769 - 600 σελίδες
...conllft. ** Oh friend ! may each domeflic blifs be " thine ! ** Be no unpleafing melancholy mine : *' Me,, let the tender office long engage, *' To rock the cradle of repofmg age, *' With lenient arts extend a Mother's breath, *' Make languor fmile, and fmooth the bed... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1778 - 394 σελίδες
...lefs joy than I. 405 О friend ! may each domeitic blifs be thine ! Be no unpleafing melancholy mine : Me, let the tender office long engage, To rock the cradle of repqfing age, With lenient arts extend a mother's breath, 410 Make langour fmile, and fmooththe bed... | |
| |
Me, let the tender office long engage, To rock the cradle of reposing age, With lenient arts extend a mother's breath, Make languor smile, and smooth the bed of death, Explore the thought, explain the asking eye, And keep a while one parent from the sky... 
