 | Robert Douglas-Fairhurst - 2002 - 396 σελίδες
...when further extending the literary life of the man he most often claimed as his poetic father, Homer: Me, let the tender Office long engage To rock the...breath, Make Languor smile, and smooth the Bed of Death . . . 87 84 'A Special Type of Choice of Object Made by Men', repr. in Strachey, XI. 173-4. 85 Strachey,... | |
 | Robert Douglas-Fairhurst - 2002 - 390 σελίδες
...when further extending the literary life of the man he most often claimed as his poetic father, Homer: Me, let the tender Office long engage To rock the Cradle of repoting Age, With lenient Arts extend a Mother's beeath. Make Languor smile, and smooth the Bed of... | |
 | W. H. Auden - 2004 - 604 σελίδες
...fair Virtue ! welcome even the last ! 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... | |
 | Joseph Warton - 2004 - 440 σελίδες
...frondée dans ce? quatres vers. •28. O friend ! may each domeftic blifs be thine ! Be no unpleafmg 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... | |
 | Louise Barnett - 2006 - 238 σελίδες
...himself in the role of the devoted son who exercises the maternal office for his own aging mother: Me, let the tender Office long engage To rock the...Explore the Thought, explain the asking Eye, And keep a while one Parent from the Sky!10 Pope gave every indication of extreme grief upon the death of his... | |
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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... 
