 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, Esq: Satires. On receiving from the Right ... - Σελίδα 9των Alexander Pope, William Lisle Bowles - 1806Πλήρης προβολή - Σχετικά με αυτό το βιβλίο
 | Jacques Delille - 1824
...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, With lenient arts extend a mother's breath, Make languor smile, and smooth the bed of... | |
 | Richard Alfred Davenport - 1824
...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, With lenient arts extend a mother's breath, Make languor smile, and smooth the bed of... | |
 | Alexander Pope, William Roscoe - 1824
...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... | |
 | British anthology - 1825
...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 cradle of reposing age, With lenient arts extend a mother's breath, Make languor smile, and smoothe the bed of... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1825 - 524 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, With lenient arts extend a mother's breath, Make languor smile, and smooth the bed of... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1828
...know less joy than I. 0 friend ! may each domestic bliss be thine ! Be no unplcasing melancholy mine: 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... | |
 | Ethics - 1828
...is when they labour under infirmities of body or mind, and in the time of their 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 langour smile, and smooth the bed of... | |
 | 1828
...will ne'er be entombed with the dead While life holds its seat in my heart. M'Comb. DUTY TO PARENTS. 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... | |
 | Jonathan Mayhew Wainwright - 1829 - 125 σελίδες
...but blessed with the presence of another, recur to my memory, and I cannot but give them utterance. 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... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1830 - 442 σελίδες
...know less joy than I. 0 friend ! may each domestic bliss be thine ! Be DO unpleasmg melancholy mine ; field and wood To shun their poison, and to choose their reposing age, With lenient arts extend a mother's breath, Make languor smile, and smooth the bed of... | |
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