 | John Bowdler - 1821 - 510 σελίδες
...ourselves, When nature, being oppress'd, commands the mind To suffer with the body. Me, let the teader office long engage, To rock the cradle of reposing...age, With lenient arts extend a Mother's breath, Make langour smile, and smooth the bed of death; Explore the thought, explain the asking eye, And keep a... | |
 | 1822 - 284 σελίδες
...from kings shall know less joy than I. O friend ! may each domestic bliss be thine ! Be no unpleasing melancholy mine: Me, let the tender office long engage...Explore the thought, explain the asking eye, And keep a while one parent from the sky ! On cares like these, if length of days attend, May Heaven, to bless... | |
 | British poets - 1822 - 276 σελίδες
...from kings shall know less joy than I. O friend ! may each domestic bliss be thine ! Be no unpleasing melancholy mine: Me, let the tender office long engage...reposing age, With lenient arts extend a mother's breath, Makelanguor smile, and smooth the bed of death; Explore the thought, explain the asking eye, And keep... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1822 - 452 σελίδες
...John Loveday, of Caversham, Esquire.) O Friend ! may each domestic bliss be thine ! Be no unpleasing Melancholy mine : Me, let the tender office long engage,...reposing Age, With lenient arts extend a Mother's breath, 410 Make Languor smile, and smooth the bed of Death, NOTES. Ver. 408. Me, let the tender office] These... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1822 - 452 σελίδες
...John Loveday, of Caversham, Esquire.) O Friend ! may each domestic bliss be thine ! Be no unpleasing Melancholy mine : Me, let the tender office long engage,...reposing Age, With lenient arts extend a Mother's breath, 410 Make Languor smile, and smooth the bed of Death, NOTES. Ver. 408. Me, let the tender office] These... | |
 | 1822 - 150 σελίδες
...his mother, in the following most beautiful lines : " Me let the tender office long engage, To rook the cradle of reposing age, With lenient arts extend...languor smile, and smooth the bed of death ; Explore tht thought, eitplain the n.itiny tye, And keep awhile one parent from the skj. of their children is... | |
 | 1823 - 714 σελίδες
...teach me THY. and in those of the latter, something that reminds me of the filial piety of Pope : " ME let the tender office long engage, To rock the...cradle of reposing age ; With lenient arts extend a FATHER'S breath, Make languor smile, and smooth the bed of death." Yours, &c. CAPRICORNUS. Ancient... | |
 | Jacques Delille - 1824 - 474 σελίδες
...from kings shall know less joy than I. O friend ! may each domestic bliss be thine ! Be no unpleasing melancholy mine ; Me, let the tender office long engage,...asking eye, And keep awhile one parent from the sky ! On cares like these if length of days attend, May Heaven, to bless those days, preserve my friend... | |
 | William Hazlitt - 1824 - 1062 σελίδες
...from kings shall know less joy than I. O friend ! may each domestic bliss be thine ! Be no unpleaeing the plains with flowers, Breath'd his soft gales,...mov'd, a duteous band! Each bore a crook all rural ! On cares like these if length of days attend, May Heaven, to Ыeи the« days, preserve my friend,... | |
 | Richard Alfred Davenport - 1824 - 406 σελίδες
...from kings shall know less joy than I . O friend ! may each domestic bliss be thine ! Be no unpleasing melancholy mine : Me, let the tender office long engage...Explore the thought, explain the asking eye, And keep a while one parent from the sky ! On cares like these, if length of days attend, May Heaven, to bless... | |
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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 awhile one parent from the sky... 
