 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
 | Charles Walton Sanders, Joshua Chase Sanders - 1848 - 456 σελίδες
...o'er-spreading tone', The sounds that sighed—'- Farewell', farewell' 1" Are gone' — all gone' ! 5. Me let the tender office long engage', To rock the cradle of reposing age' ; With lenient arts' extend a moth'er's breath', Make languor smile', and smooth the... | |
 | Henry Bartlett Maglathlin - 1849 - 58 σελίδες
...happiness ! unlooked for joy ! Never let love despair ! Thy prize is mine ! 3. Love and Tenderness* Me let the tender office long engage, To rock the cradle of reposing age ; To what is plaintiveness suited ? With what is it accompanied'.' What is rule first?... | |
 | Alexander Pope, William Charles Macready - 1849 - 392 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... | |
 | Henry Bartlett Maglathlin - 1850 - 58 σελίδες
...happiness ! unlooked for joy ! Never let love despair ! Thy prize is mine ! 3. Love and Tenderness.* Me let the tender office long engage, To rock the cradle of reposing age ; To what is phiintiveness suited ? With what is it accompanied ? What is rule first?... | |
 | Henry Bartlett Maglathlin - 1851
...nappiness ! unlocked for joy ! Never let love despair ! Thy prize is mine ! 3. Love and Tenderness* Me let the tender office long engage, To rock the cradle of reposing age ; To what is plaintiveness suited ? With what is it accompanied ? What is rule first?... | |
 | Clara Lucas Balfour - 1852 - 404 σελίδες
...of Pope's private character is his tender affection for his parents — his mother particularly. " Me let the tender office long engage, To rock the cradle of declining age; With lenient arts extend a mother's breath, Make languor smile and smooth the bed of... | |
 | 1852
...know less joy than I. O friend ! may each domestic bliss be thine ! Be no unpleasing melancholy mine : that to shun mankind ; Some place the bliss in action, some reposing age, With lenient arts extend a mother's breath. Make languor smile, and smooth the bed of... | |
 | Chauncey Allen Goodrich - 1852
...inadvertently changed tlio wort asking into aching, anil thus lessened the Swlt graphic effect of the original. Me, let the tender office long engage To rock the cradle of reposing age. With lenient »rts extend a mother's breatlt. Make languor smile, and smooth the twd... | |
 | Chauncey Allen Goodrich - 1852 - 947 σελίδες
...inadvertently changed the word asking into aching, and thus lessened the finely graphic effect of the original. 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 Amooth the bed of... | |
 | Chauncey Allen Goodrich - 1852 - 947 σελίδες
...inadvertently changed the word miking into aching, and thus lessened the finely graphic effect of the original. 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... | |
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