 | Alexander Pope - English literature - 1751 - 288 pages
...know lefs joy than I. O Friend ! may each domeftic blifs be thine ! Be no unpleafing Melancholy mine : Me, let the tender office long engage, To rock the cradle of repofing Age, With lenient arts extend a Mother's breath, 410 Make Langour fmile, and fmooth the bed... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1751 - 286 pages
...know lefs joy than I. O Friend ! may each domeftic blifs be thine I Be no unpleafing Melancholy mine : Me, let the tender office long engage, To rock the cradle of repofing Age, With lenient arts extend a Mother's breath, 41^ Make Langour fmile, and fmooth the bed... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1752 - 434 pages
...pathetic defcription of that filial Piety, in the exercife of which he makes his own happinefs to confift. Me let the tender office long engage To rock the Cradle of repofing Age j With lenient arts extend a Mother's breath, Make Languor fmile, and fmooth the bed of... | |
 | Literature - 1764 - 198 pages
...xiii. p. 258. 10. O friend ! may each domeftic blifs be thine ! Be no unpleailng melancholy mine : Me, let the tender office long engage, To rock the cradle of repofing age, With lenient arts extend a mother's breath, Make languor fmile, and fmooth the bed of... | |
 | Owen Ruffhead - Poets, English - 1769 - 600 pages
...conllft. ** Oh friend ! may each domeflic blifs be " thine ! ** 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, *' Make languor fmile, and fmooth the bed... | |
 | Owen Ruffhead - Biography - 1769 - 592 pages
...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... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - English poetry - 1779 - 1164 pages
...know lefs joy than I. O Friend ! may each domeftic blifs be thine ! 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, 410 Make Languor fmile, and fraooth the bed... | |
 | Elizabeth Griffith - Married women - 1782 - 148 pages
...affectionate feelings, and awaken that almoft divine enthufiafm which infpired Pope's filial prayer : , 9 " Me let the tender office long engage, " To rock the cradle of declining Age ; «•" Explore the thought, explain the alking eye, " And keep awhile a parent from... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1890 - 562 pages
...less joy than TL O, friend ! may each domestic bliss be thine ' Be no unpleasing melancholy mine: Ms, let the tender office long engage, To rock the cradle...breath, Make languor smile, and smooth the bed of death,1 Explore the thought, explain the asking eye, And keep awhile one parent from the sky ! On cares... | |
 | Christian Felix Weisse - 1785 - 396 pages
...aufgemuntert »urbe, поф einige anbew auf Tírt nad)¿uaí)men, unb nur fein îob un« U 3 íerbrad) Me let the tender office long engage, To rock the cradle of repofing agej With lenient arts extend a mother's breath, Make languor fmi le, and fmooth the bed of... | |
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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! 
