 | Nathan Drake - English literature - 1805 - 424 pages
...to his filial duty. O Friend ! may each domestic bliss be thine ! Be no unpleasing melancholy mine: Me, let the tender office long engage, To rock the...Explore the thought, explain the asking eye, And keep awhile one parent from the sky ! Johnson, speaking of this amiable feature in the character of Pope,... | |
 | Nathan Drake - English essays - 1805 - 420 pages
...to his filial duty. 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 MotheVs breath, Make Languor smile, and smooth the bed of Death, Explore the thought, explain the asking... | |
 | Job Orton - 1805 - 376 pages
...other / following lines of Mr. POPE, which were defcriptive of their filial affeftion towards her. Me, let the tender office long engage, To rock the cradle of repofing age ; With lenient arts, extend a Mutter's breath, Make langour (mile, and fmooth the bed... | |
 | Joseph Warton - 1806 - 440 pages
...quatres vers. 28. O, friend ! may each domestic bliss bs thine ! Be no unpleasing melancholy mine ! Me let the tender office long engage, To rock the cradle of reposing age ;* S 3 With * See a letter to Mr. Richardson, desiring him to come to Twickenham, and take a sketch... | |
 | Joseph Warton - 1806 - 440 pages
...mother, just after she was With lenient arts extend a mother's breath, Make languor smile, and smuoth the bed of death ; Explore the thought, explain the asking eye, And keep awhile one parent from the sky !* These exquisite lines give us a very interesting picture of the exemplary... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1806 - 508 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 Languor fmile, and fmooth the bed... | |
 | Alexander Pope, William Lisle Bowles - 1806 - 504 pages
...know lefs joy than I. O Friend ! may each domeftic blifs be thine ! Be no unpleafmg 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 Languor fmile, and fmooth the bed... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1806 - 550 pages
...know lefs joy than I. O Friend ! may each domeftic blifs be thine ! Be no unpleafmg Melancholy mine : Me, let the tender office long engage, To rock the cradle of repoling Age, With lenient arts extend a Mother's breath, 410 Make Languor fmile, and fmooth the bed... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1807 - 288 pages
...less joy than I. O friend ! may each domestic bliss he thine ! 406 Be no unpleasing melancholy mine : Me let the tender office long engage To rock the cradle...reposing age, With lenient arts extend a mother's breath, 410 Make languor smile, and smooth the hed of death, Explore the thought, explain the asking eye, And... | |
 | John Bell - 1807 - 566 pages
...know less joy than I. O Friend ! may each domestic bliss be thine ! Be no unpleasing melancholy mine ; Me let the tender office long engage To rock the cradle...reposing age, With lenient arts extend a mother's breath, 410 Mike Languor smile, and smooth the bed of Death, Explore the thought, explain the asking eye, And... | |
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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! 
