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 31by Alexander Pope - 1752Full view - About this book
| James Roach - English poetry - 1794 - 260 pages
...know lefs joy thar O Friend ! may each domcftic blifs be thine ! JBe no unpleafing Melancholy mineMe let the tender office long engage, To rock the cradle...Age ; With lenient arts extend a Mother's breath, Make languor fmile, and fmooth the bed of dcatl Explore the thought, explain the afking eye, And keep... | |
| 1794 - 918 pages
...kings fliail know left joy than I. О friend ! may each iloricftic blifs be thine ! Be no nnpleafing melancholy mine : Me, let the tender office long engage. To rock the cradle of repoimg age. With lenient arts extend a mother's breath, 41« Make languor fniilf, and fmootii the... | |
| Robert Anderson - English poetry - 1795 - 906 pages
...thus to die ! Who fprung from kings (hall know lefs joy than I. О friend ! may each domeftic blifs be thine '. Be no unpleafing melancholy mine : Me,...repofing age, With lenient arts extend a mother's breath, 41* Make languor fmile, and fmooth the bed of death, Explore the thought, explain the aiking eye. And... | |
| Vicesimus Knox - English poetry - 1796 - 574 pages
...from Kings (hall know lefs joy than I. О Friend ! may each domeftic blifs be thine ! Be no unplcafing Melancholy mine : Me let the tender office long engage,...Age ; With lenient arts extend a Mother's breath, iVJakc languor fmile, and fmooth the lied of death Expl .re the thought, explain the alking eye, And... | |
| John Bell - English poetry - 1796 - 480 pages
...from kings shall know less joy than l. 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 mother's breath, 410 Make Languor smile, and smooth the bed... | |
| Samuel Stennett - Conduct of life - 1800 - 478 pages
...parental cave and love ! AfFefting examples of this kind I might here cite, but they (hall be referred * Me let the tender office long engage To rock the cradle...age ; With lenient arts extend a mother's breath, Hake languor (mile, and fmooth the bed of deatli; 3" Explore the thought, ex-plain the aiking eye,... | |
| Samuel Johnson - English poetry - 1800 - 496 pages
...Kings (lull know left joy than I. 405 O Friend ' may each dome/He blifs be thine ! Be no unplealing Melancholy mine: Me, let the tender office long engage, To rock the cradle of repofing Age, , With lerientartstxtend a Mother's breath, 410 Make Languor fmile, and fmooth the bed of Death, Explore the... | |
| Samuel Johnson - English poetry - 1800 - 496 pages
...Irani Kings (lull know left joy than I. O Friend ' may each dome/He blifs be thine! Be no unplealing Melancholy mine: Me, let the tender office long engage, To rock the cradle of repofing Age, , 405 With lerientartstxtend a Mother's breath, 410 Make Languor fmile, and fmooth the bed of Death,... | |
| Henry Kett - Best books - 1803 - 468 pages
...III. Refled .* Pope never wrote fweeter lines than thofe which were dictated by filial affeftion. " Me, let the tender office long engage To rock the cradle of repofing age, • ..: With , III. Reflect that time purfues his flight on rapid wings — and that the hours of youth, like the... | |
| Alexander Pope - 1804 - 496 pages
...thus to die ! Who fprung from Kings (hall know lefs joy than I. 405 O Friend I may each domeftic blifs be thine ! Be no unpleafing Melancholy mine: Me, let the tender office longengagt, To rock the cradle of repofing Age, With lenient arts extend a Mother's breath, 410 Make... | |
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