 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
 | sir Samuel Egerton Brydges (bart.) - 1832 - 306 σελίδες
...aged mother. •• O 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 ke«p awhile one parent... | |
 | William Phelan - 1832 - 454 σελίδες
...realized : . . • O friend, may each domestic bliss be thine : Be no unpleasing melancholy mine : Mr, let the tender office long engage, To rock the cradle of reposing age ; Explore the thought, explain the asking eye, And keep awhile BOTH PARENTS from the sky ! ' From 1823.,... | |
 | John Kenyon - 1833 - 176 σελίδες
...of Pope, from the prologue to the Satires, although 10 well known, can hardly be too often quoted. " 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." Note 4, page 18. When the last lingering friend hath bade farewell.... | |
 | John Evans - 1834 - 306 σελίδες
...Twickenham ; yet his treatment of an aged mother was exemplary, even to admiration — With 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 ! In the discharge of this important duty towards the aged, the fair... | |
 | Samuel Griswold Goodrich - 1834 - 432 σελίδες
...tender office long engage To rock the cradle of declining age, With lenient arts extend a parent's breath, Make languor smile, and smooth the bed of...Explore the thought, explain the asking eye, And keep awhile a parent from the sky." COUNCIL OF HORSES. A FABLE. UPON a time, a neighing Steerl, Who grazed... | |
 | Samuel Griswold Goodrich - 1834 - 432 σελίδες
...parents, is when they labor under infirmities of body or mind, and in the time of extreme old age. " Me let the tender office long engage To rock the cradle of declining age, With lenient arts extend a parent's breath, Make languor smile, and smooth the bed of... | |
 | Samuel Griswold Goodrich - 1834 - 440 σελίδες
...parents, is when they labor under infirmities of body or mind, and in the time of extreme old age. " Me let the tender office long engage To rock the cradle of declining age, With lenient arts extend a parent's breath, Make languor smile, and smooth the bed of... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1835 - 382 σελίδες
...know less joy than I. 0 friend ! may each domestic bliss be thine ! Be no unpleasing melancholy mine : Me, let the tender office long engage To rock the...breath, Make languor smile, and smooth the bed of death ; of William Turner, Esq. of York : she had three brothers, one of whom was killed, another died in... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1835 - 378 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 smoothe the bed of death, Explore the thought, explain the asking eye,... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1940 - 520 σελίδες
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