 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 awhile one parent from the sky...  The Poetical Works of Alexander Pope - Page 281by Alexander Pope - 1904 - 505 pagesFull view - About this book
 | John Bell - English poetry - 1796 - 480 pages
...me thus to live, and thus to die I 404 Who sprung from kings shall know less joy than l. O Friend! may each domestic bliss be thine ! Be no unpleasing...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 Heav'n, to bless... | |
 | English poetry - 1796 - 500 pages
...from kings shall know less joy than I. O Friend! may each domestic bliss be thine ! Be no unpleaiing melancholy mine; Me let the tender office long engage...reposing age, With lenient arts extend a mother's breath, 41* Make Languor smile, and smooth the bed of Death, Explore the thought, explain the asking eye, And... | |
 | Nathan Drake - English literature - 1805 - 424 pages
...fine epistle just mentioned, he thus sweetly and pathetically alludes to his filial duty. O Friend ! may each domestic bliss be thine ! Be no unpleasing...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... | |
 | Nathan Drake - English essays - 1805 - 420 pages
...fine epistle just mentioned, he thus sweetly and pathetically alludes to his filial duty. O Friend ! may each domestic bliss be thine ! Be no unpleasing...cradle of reposing age, With lenient arts extend a MotheVs breath, Make Languor smile, and smooth the bed of Death, Explore the thought, explain the asking... | |
 | Joseph Warton - 1806 - 464 pages
...Il me semble que la Perruque est asses heureusement frondee dans ces quatres vers. 28. O, friend ! may each domestic bliss be thine ! Be no unpleasing...office long engage, To rock the cradle of reposing age ;* S 3 With * See a letter to Mr. Richardson, desiring him to come to Twickenham, and tak« a sketch... | |
 | Joseph Warton - 1806 - 440 pages
...Perruque est asses heureusement frondee dans ces quatres vers. 28. O, friend ! may each domestic bliss b« thine ! Be no unpleasing melancholy mine ! Me let...office long engage, To rock the cradle of reposing age ;* S3 With * See a letter to Mr. Richardson, desiring him to come to Twickenham., and take a sketch... | |
 | John Bell - 1807 - 562 pages
...me thus to live, and thus to die ! 404 Who sprung from kings shall know less joy than I. O Friend ! may each domestic bliss be thine ! Be no unpleasing...age, With lenient arts extend a mother's breath, 410 Mike Languor smile, and smooth the bed of Death, Explore the thought, explain the asking eye, And keep... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1807 - 288 pages
...Who sprung from kings shall know less joy than I. O friend ! may each domestic bliss he thine ! 406 Be no unpleasing melancholy mine : Me let the tender...mother's breath, 410 Make languor smile, and smooth the hed of death, Explore the thought, explain the asking eye, And keep awhile one parent from the sky... | |
 | Alexander Pope, Thomas Park - 1808 - 388 pages
...tender office long engageTo 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 awhile one parent from the sky ! On cares like these, if length, of days attend, May Heaven to bless... | |
 | British poets - English poetry - 1809 - 526 pages
...die ! Who sprung from kings shall know less joy than I. O friend! may each domestic bliss be thine f Be no unpleasing melancholy mine : Me, let the tender...reposing age, With lenient arts extend a mother's breath, Make langour smile, and smoothe the bed of death , Explore the thought, explain the asking eye. And... | |
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