 | England - 1843 - 508 pages
...homage to his genius, he thought no time so well or so happily bestowed as that which he gave to " Make languor smile and smooth the bed of death, Explore...asking eye. And keep a-while one parent from the sky." That Pope guarded the flickering taper of life with the fondest affection, we have ample testimony.... | |
 | Elizabeth Stone - 1843 - 884 pages
...felt for this her adopted child and tender friend, who on her part appeared sedulously anxious to " Explore the thought, explain the asking eye, And keep awhile one parent from the sky." And thus would they pass along ; every individual young or old, bad or good, rich or poor, saluting... | |
 | Child rearing - 1844 - 332 pages
...heaven is worth them all. T. MOORE, DUTY TO AGED PARENTS. ME let the tender office long engage, Tlf rock the cradle of reposing age; With lenient arts...asking eye, And keep awhile one parent from the sky! POPE. LITERARY NOTICES. INSTRUCTIONS IN THOROUGH BASS. Being an Easy Method of learning to play Church... | |
 | Encyclopaedia - 1845 - 806 pages
...by my own practice. Witeman. Surgery, vol. ii. p. 1 1 1 . Me, let the tender office long engage, To rock the cradle of reposing age, With lenient arts...< Make languor smile, and smooth the bed of death. Pope. Prologue to the Salirei, r. 412. But we allow lenitioei, as cassia, tamarinds, manna. H'iwman.... | |
 | C. P. Bronson - Anatomy - 1845 - 330 pages
...rock the mulle of reposing age ; With lenient aris— «Mend л mother's breath, Make languor emile, and smooth the bed of death ; Explore the thought, explain the asking eye, And keep, a while, one parent from the thy 1 Proverbs. 1. Neither great poverty, nor great riches will bear reason.... | |
 | C. P. Bronson - Elocution - 1845 - 396 pages
...sole remaining joy, Wai carried — by an orphan boy." tie- -'et the tender office lang engage, Го rock the cradle of reposing age ; With lenient arts — extend a mother's brealh. Make languor mile, and smooth the bed of death i Explore the thought, explain the asking eye,... | |
 | 1846 - 386 pages
...lines in which she is there mentioned were written : — " Me let the tender office long engage To rock the cradle of reposing age ; With lenient arts...asking eye, And keep awhile one parent from the sky." From his father Pope is said to have inherited his crooked person, and from his mother his constitutional... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1846 - 320 pages
...of reposing age, With lenient arts extend a mother's hreath, Make languor smile, and smooth the hed of death ; Explore the thought, explain the asking...like these if length of days attend. May Heaven, to hless those days, preserve my friend ! Preserve him social, cheerful, and serene, And just as rich... | |
 | Hugh Swinton Legaré - Statesmen - 1846 - 652 pages
...cradle of declining age, With lenient aits extend a mother's breath, Make languor smile and soothe the bed of death, Explore the thought, explain the asking eye, And keep at Icasi one parent from the iky '" VOL. I. — B tell plainly of what must be in hers. Upon occasions,... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1847 - 524 pages
...domestic bliss be thine ; 406 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 of death, Ver. 408. Me, let the tender office] These exquisite... | |
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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... 
