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" 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, &c - Page 31
by Alexander Pope - 1752
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The Works of Alexander Pope Esq, Volume 4

Alexander Pope - English literature - 1751 - 288 pages
...thus to die ! 404 Who fprung from Kings fhall know lefs joy than I. O Friend ! may each domeftic blifs be thine ! Be no unpleafing Melancholy mine : Me,...repofing Age, With lenient arts extend a Mother's breath, 410 Make Langour fmile, and fmooth the bed of Death, Explore the thought, explain theaflcing eye, And...
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The Works of Alexander Pope, Esq. ...: Satires, &c

Alexander Pope - 1751 - 286 pages
...404 Who fprung from Kings fhall know lefs joy than I. O Friend ! may each domeftic blifs be thine I Be no unpleafing Melancholy mine : Me, let the tender...repofing Age, With lenient arts extend a Mother's breath, 41^ Make Langour fmile, and fmooth the bed of Death) Explore the thought, explain the afking eye, And...
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The Works of Alexander Pope: Satires, &c

Alexander Pope - 1751 - 278 pages
...! 40. Who fprung from Kings fhall know Ids joy than I. O Friend ! may each dome/He blifs be thine 1 Be no unpleafing Melancholy mine : Me, let the tender office long engage, To rock the cradle of repofmg Age, With lenient arts extend a Mother's breath, 4,0 Make Langour fmile, and fmooth the bed...
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The works of Alexander Pope. With his last corrections, additions ..., Volume 4

Alexander Pope - 1754 - 278 pages
...from Kings (hall know lefs joy than I. O Friend ! may each domeftic blifs be thine ! Be no unplealing Melancholy mine : Me, let the tender office long engage,...repofing Age, With lenient arts extend a Mother's breath, 410 Make Languor fmile, and fmooth the bed of Death, Explore the thought, explain the afking eye, And...
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Anecdotes of Polite Literature ...

Literature - 1764 - 198 pages
...Voltaire's works, vol. xiii. p. 258. 10. O friend ! may each domeftic blifs be thine ! Be no unpleailng melancholy mine : Me, let the tender office long engage,...repofing age, With lenient arts extend a mother's breath, Make languor fmile, and fmooth the bed of death, Explore the thought, explain the aiking eye, And keep...
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The Life of Alexander Pope, Esq: Compiled from Original Manuscripts; with a ...

Owen Ruffhead - Biography - 1769 - 600 pages
...the exercife of which he makes his own happinefs to confift. " Oh friend ! may each domeftic blifs be " thine ! " Be no unpleafing melancholy mine: *'...age, *' With lenient arts extend a Mother's breath, *' Make languor fmile, and fmooth the bed of ' " death, ** Explore the thought, explain the afldng...
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The Life of Alexander Pope, Esq: Comp. from Original Manuscripts; with a ...

Owen Ruffhead - Poets, English - 1769 - 600 pages
...jthe exercife of which he makes his own happiucls to conllft. ** Oh friend ! may each domeflic blifs be " thine ! ** Be no unpleafing melancholy mine :...tender office long engage, *' To rock the cradle of repofmg age, *' With lenient arts extend a Mother's breath, *' Make languor fmile, and fmooth the bed...
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The Life of Alexander Pope, Esq: Compiled from Original Manuscripts; with a ...

Owen Ruffhead - Biography - 1769 - 592 pages
...his own happinefs to confift. " Oh friend ! may each dome/lie blifs be " thine ! " Be no unpleafmg melancholy mine : " Me, let the tender office long engage, " To rock the cradle of rcpofing age, " With lenient arts extend a Mother's breath, " Make languor fmile, and fmooth the bed...
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The Works of Alexander Pope, Esq: In Four Volumes Complete. With His Last ...

Alexander Pope - 1778 - 394 pages
...to die ! Who fprung from kings fhall know lefs joy than I. 405 О friend ! may each domeitic blifs be thine ! Be no unpleafing melancholy mine : Me,...the tender office long engage, To rock the cradle of repqfing age, With lenient arts extend a mother's breath, 410 Make langour fmile, and fmooththe bed...
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The Works of the English Poets: Pope

Samuel Johnson - English poetry - 1779 - 414 pages
...and thus to die ! Who fprung from Kings mall know lefs joy than I. O Friend ! may each domeftic blifs be thine ! Be no unpleafing Melancholy mine : Me,...repofing Age, With lenient arts extend a Mother's breath, 410 Make Languor finile, and finooth the bed of Death, Explore VARIATION. After ver. 405. in the MS....
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