 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
 | Alexander Pope - 1824 - 494 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 cradle of reposing age, NOTES. Ver. 408. Me, let the tender office] These exquisite lines give us a very interesting picture... | |
 | Thomas Bowdler - 1824 - 342 σελίδες
...— " Me let the pleasing office long engage To rock the cradle of declining dge; With lenient hand extend a mother's breath, Make languor smile, and smooth the bed of death; Explore each thought, explain the asking eye, And keep awhile one parent from the sky." Mr. Bowdler's principles... | |
 | Alexander Pope, William Roscoe - 1824 - 498 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 cradle of reposing age, Vcr. 408. Me, let the tender office] These exquisite lines give us a very interesting picture of the... | |
 | Alexander Pope, William Roscoe - 1824 - 498 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 cradle of reposing age, NOTES. Vcr. 408. Me, let the tender office] These exquisite lines give us a very interesting picture... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1825 - 536 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...Explore the thought, explain the asking eye, And keep awhile one parent from the sky ! On cares like these if length of days attend, May Heaven, to bless... | |
 | British anthology - 1825 - 460 σελίδες
...less joy than I. () friend ! may each domestic bliss be thine ! Be no unpleasing melancholy mine ! Me, let the tender office long engage To rock the...extend a mother's breath, Make languor smile, and smoothe the bed of death ; Explore the thought, explain the asking eye, And keep awhile one parent... | |
 | William Hazlitt - 1825 - 600 σελίδες
...thine ! Be no unpleasing melaneholy mine : Me let the tender offiee long engage To roek the eradle iin' thought, explain the asking eye, And keep awhile one parent from the sky ! On eares like these... | |
 | Thomas Bowdler - 1825 - 364 σελίδες
...— " Me let the pleasing office long engage To rock the cradle of declining age ; With lenient hand extend a mother's breath, Make languor smile, and smooth the bed of death ; Explore each thought, explain the asking eye, And keep awhile one»parent from the sky." Mr. Bowdler's principles... | |
 | John Aikin - 1826 - 840 σελίδες
...know less joy than 4. 0 friend ! may each domestic bliss be thine ! Be DO unpleasing melancholy mine : Me, let the tender office long engage, To rock the...reposing age, With lenient arts extend a mother's breath, Hike languor smile, and smooth the bed of death, Eiplore the thought, explain the asking eye, And keep... | |
 | John Barclay (of Calcots.) - 1826 - 184 σελίδες
...3. Hence BREATH, and the words equivalent to it in other languages, are transferred to denote life. With lenient arts extend a mother's breath Make languor smile, and smooth the bed of death. Leontes. My true Paulina, We shall not marry until thou bidst us. Paulina. That Shall be when your... | |
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