 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...  Alexander Pope - Page 82by Leslie Stephen - 1880 - 210 pagesFull view - About this book
 | English poetry - 1796 - 500 pages
...less joy than I. O Friend! may each domestic bliss be thine ! Be no unpleaiing melancholy mine; Me let the tender office long engage To rock the cradle...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... | |
 | John Bell - English poetry - 1796 - 480 pages
...cradle of reposing age, With lenient arts extend a mother's breath, 410 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 Heav'n, to bless those days, preserve my friend!... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1804 - 190 pages
...less joy than I. Oh, Friend ! may each domestic bliss be thine ! Be no unpleasing melancholy mine : Me let the tender office long engage To rock the cradle...reposing age, With lenient arts extend a mother's breath, 410 Make Languor smile, and smooth the bed of Death, Explore the thought, explain' the asking eye,... | |
 | Nathan Drake - English literature - 1805 - 424 pages
...his filial duty. O Friend ! may each domestic bliss be thine ! Be no unpleasing melancholy mine: Me, let the tender office long engage, To rock the cradle...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... | |
 | Nathan Drake - English essays - 1805 - 420 pages
...his filial duty. 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 MotheVs breath, Make Languor smile, and smooth the bed of Death, Explore the thought, explain the asking... | |
 | Joseph Warton - 1806 - 440 pages
...quatres vers. 28. <>, 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 ;* S 3 With f * See a letter to Mr. Richardson, desiring him to come to Twickenham, and take a sketch... | |
 | John Bell - 1807 - 562 pages
...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...reposing 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... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1807 - 288 pages
...joy than I. O friend ! may each domestic bliss he thine ! 406 Be no unpleasing melancholy mine : Me let the tender office long engage To rock the cradle...reposing age, With lenient arts extend a mother's breath, 410 Make languor smile, and smooth the hed of death, Explore the thought, explain the asking eye, And... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1807 - 474 pages
...less joy than I. O friend ! may each domestic hliss he thine ! Be no unpleasing melancholy mine : Me, let the tender office long engage To rock the cradle...reposing age, With lenient arts extend a mother's hreath, Make languor smile, and smoothe the hed of death ; Explore the thought, explain the asking... | |
 | Alexander Pope, Thomas Park - 1808 - 388 pages
...domestic bliss be thine ! Be no unpleasing melancholy mine : Me, let the 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... | |
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