 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...  The works of Alexander Pope, with notes and illustrations, by himself and ... - Σελίδα 8των Alexander Pope - 1847Πλήρης προβολή - Σχετικά με αυτό το βιβλίο
 | John Nichols - 1812 - 736 σελίδες
...by some Letters lately published in the Weekly Miscellany ^. By William WarburWith lenient arts t' extend a Mother's breath, Make languor smile, and...Explore the thought, explain the asking eye, And keep awhile one Parent from the sky. " Excess of zeal in such as the Letter-writer, and defect of Religion... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1812 - 348 σελίδες
...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, To rock the...reposing age, With lenient arts extend a mother's breath, 410 Make languor smile, and smooth the bed of death, Explore the thought, explain the asking eye, And... | |
 | John Nichols - 1812 - 734 σελίδες
...by some Letters lately published in the Weekly Miscellany J. By William WarburWith lenient arts t' extend a Mother's breath, Make languor smile, and smooth the bed of death j Explore the thought, explain the asking eye, And keep awhile one Parent from the sky. " Excess of... | |
 | 1813 - 778 σελίδες
...most faithfully and most zealously in tending her honoured and helpless distant relatives ; saying, " Me let the tender office long engage, To rock the cradle of declining age !" POPE. .And this, too, in the prime anrt viguur of Hie, although, she herself wanted... | |
 | Nathan Drake - 1814 - 404 σελίδες
...to his filial duty. O Friend ! may each domestic bliss be thine ! Be no unpleasing melancholy mine: Me, let the tender office long engage, To rock the...Explore the thought, explain the asking eye, And keep awhile one parent from the sky ! AI Johnson, speaking of this amiable feature in the character of Pope,... | |
 | Elizabeth Frank - 1814 - 400 σελίδες
...mention of tier, pai'ticularlv in the following lines. " Me, let the tender office long engage, <I"o rock the cradle of reposing age; With lenient arts...thought, explain the asking eye, ' . • .And keep awhile one parent from the sky !" "The filial piety of Pope," says Dr. Johnson in the life of that... | |
 | Frank Elizabeth - 1814 - 400 σελίδες
...his poetical works, he makes very affectionate mention of her, particularly in the following lines. " Me, let the tender office long engage, To rock the...languor smile, and smooth the bed of death," * Explore (he thought, explain the asking eye, ^ '• ^ And keep awhile one parent from the sky !" i ;. j. "... | |
 | 1816 - 358 σελίδες
...of his poetical works, he makes very affectionate menof her, particularly in the following lines. " Me, let the tender office long engage, To rock the...Explore the thought, explain the asking eye, And keep awhile one parent from the sky !" " The filial piety of Pope," says Dr. Johnson in the of that great... | |
 | Mrs. Barbauld (Anna Letitia) - 1816 - 414 σελίδες
...and rifled all it's sweetness ; Then cast it, like a loathsome weed, away. Me let the tender offise long engage, To rock the cradle of reposing age ;...Explore the thought, explain the asking eye, And keep awhile one parent from the sky. Tir'd Nature's sweet restorer, halmy Sleep ! He, like the world, his... | |
 | John Evans - 1817 - 610 σελίδες
...POPE'S DISSOLUTION. O Friend ! may each domestic bliss be thine, . Be no uupleasing melancholy mine ! Me let the tender office long engage To rock the cradle...Explore the thought, explain the asking eye, And keep awhile one Parent from the sky ! There is a letter written to Richardson, the painter, desiring him... | |
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