 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: Satires, &c - Page 27by Alexander Pope - 1757Full view - About this book
 | Alexander Pope - English literature - 1751 - 288 pages
...inftant, and without a groan. O grant me, thus to live, and thus to die ! 404 Who fprung from Kings fhall know lefs joy than I. O Friend ! may each domeftic...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 keep a... | |
 | 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... | |
 | 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 Death ^ Explore... | |
 | Alexander Pope - English poetry - 1760 - 360 pages
...confult Dtmophilas the Bytbinian, uhofe anecdotes turn of this high importance. TO THE SATIRES. 47 Me, let the tender office long engage, To rock the...lenient arts extend a Mother's breath, 410 Make Languor finile, andfmooth the bed of Death, Explore the thought, explain the afking eye, And keep a while one... | |
 | 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... | |
 | Owen Ruffhead - Biography - 1769 - 600 pages
...defcription of that filial piety, in the exercife of which he makes his own happinefs to confift. " Oh friend ! may each domeftic blifs be " thine ! " Be...age, *' With lenient arts extend a Mother's breath, *' Make languor fmile, and fmooth the bed of ' " death, ** Explore the thought, explain the afldng... | |
 | Owen Ruffhead - Poets, English - 1769 - 600 pages
...piety, in jthe exercife of which he makes his own happiucls to conllft. ** Oh friend ! may each domeflic blifs be " thine ! ** Be no unpleafing melancholy...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
...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... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1778 - 394 pages
...and thus 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...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... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - English poetry - 1779 - 414 pages
...paft unknown, His death was inftant, and without a groan. O grant me thus to live, and thus to die ! Who fprung from Kings mall know lefs joy than I. O...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. And of myfelf,... | |
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