 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
 | Henry Bartlett Maglathlin - Elocution - 1850 - 88 pages
...happiness ! unlooked for joy ! Never let love despair ! Thy prize is mine ! 3. Love and Tenderness.* Me let the tender office long engage, To rock the cradle of reposing age ; To what is phiintiveness suited ? With what is it accompanied ? What is rule first?... | |
 | Henry Bartlett Maglathlin - Elocution - 1851 - 328 pages
...nappiness ! unlocked for joy ! Never let love despair ! Thy prize is mine ! 3. Love and Tenderness* Me let the tender office long engage, To rock the cradle of reposing age ; To what is plaintiveness suited ? With what is it accompanied ? What is rule first?... | |
 | English poetry - 1852 - 874 pages
...from kings shall know less joy than I. O friend ! may each domestic bliss be thine ! Be no unpleasing bids to serve, and that to shun mankind ; Some place the bliss in action, some reposing age, With lenient arts extend a mother's breath. Make languor smile, and smooth the bed of... | |
 | Clara Lucas Balfour - English literature - 1852 - 458 pages
...of Pope's private character is his tender affection for his parents — his mother particularly. " Me let the tender office long engage, To rock the cradle of declining age; With lenient arts extend a mother's breath, Make languor smile and smooth the bed of... | |
 | Chauncey Allen Goodrich - Great Britain - 1852 - 976 pages
...inadvertently changed the word asking into aching, and thus lessened the finely graphic effect of the original. 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 Amooth the bed of... | |
 | Chauncey Allen Goodrich - Great Britain - 1852 - 978 pages
...inadvertently changed tlio wort asking into aching, anil thus lessened the Swlt graphic effect of the original. Me, let the tender office long engage To rock the cradle of reposing age. With lenient ğrts extend a mother's breatlt. Make languor smile, and smooth the twd... | |
 | Chauncey Allen Goodrich - Great Britain - 1852 - 968 pages
...inadvertently changed the word miking into aching, and thus lessened the finely graphic effect of the original. 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... | |
 | KATE LOUISE ROBERTS - 1922 - 1422 pages
...tittering on, and shoves you from the stage. POPE — Imitations of Horace. Bk. II. Ep. 2. L. 322. 19 well skilj'd to find or forge a fault; A turn for punning, reposing age; With lenient arts extend a mother's breath, Make languor smile, and smooth the bed of... | |
 | George William McClelland - English Literature (selections: Extracts, Etc.) - 1925 - 1180 pages
...from Kings shall know less joy than I. O Friend! may each domestic bliss be thine! Be no unpleasing ith the appetite — and the coarsest hunger might barter her consistently fo reposing Age, With lenient arts extend a Mother's breath, <10 Make Languor smile, and smooth the bed... | |
 | William Joseph Long - English literature - 1925 - 844 pages
...as near as he could to a real rather than an artificial sentiment when he wrote of his old mother : Me let the tender office long engage, To rock the cradle of reposing age. Works of Pope. Pope's first important work, An Essay on Criticism (l7ll), is an echo... | |
| |
