 | Alexander Pope - 1807 - 474 pages
...know less joy than I. O friend ! may each domestic hliss he thine ! Be no unpleasing melancholy mine : Me, let the tender office long engage To rock the...reposing age, With lenient arts extend a mother's hreath, Make languor smile, and smoothe the hed of death ; Explore the thought, explain the asking... | |
 | Alexander Pope, Thomas Park - 1808 - 388 pages
...domestic bliss be thine ! Be no unpleasing melancholy mine : Me, let the tender office long engageTo rock the cradle of reposing age, With lenient arts...Explore the thought, explain the asking eye, And keep awhile one parent from the sky ! On cares like these, if length, of days attend, May Heaven to bless... | |
 | Alexander Pope - English poetry - 1808 - 698 pages
...know less joy than I. O friend ! may each domestic blisa be thine! Be no unpleasing melancholy mine: Me, let the tender office long engage, To rock the cradle of reposing age, Witli lenient arts extend a mother's breath, Make langnor smile, and smooth the bedtlf death; Explore... | |
 | 1809 - 402 pages
...less joy than 1. O friend ! nriy each domestic bliss be thine 5 Be no nnplensiug melancholy mine : Me let the tender office long engage, To rock the...the bed of death ; Explore the thought, explain the askin« pye, And keep awhile one parent from the sky ! On cares like these, if length of days attend,... | |
 | British poets - English poetry - 1809 - 504 pages
...know less joy than I. O friend! may each domestic bliss be thine f Be no unpleasing melancholy mine : Me, let the tender office long engage To rock the...age, With lenient arts extend a mother's breath, Make langour smile, and smoothe the bed of death , Explore the thought, explain the asking eye. And keep... | |
 | Vicesimus Knox - English poetry - 1809 - 604 pages
...than I. O Friend ! may each domestic bliss be thine ' .Bo no uiiplcusing Melancholy mine: Me let tlK- .rins her reign Slights ev'rybnrrow'd charm that laiisiunr smile, and smooth the bed of death; Explore the thought, explain the asking eye, And keep... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - English poetry - 1810 - 546 pages
...With lenient arts extend a mother's breath. Make languor smile, ad '•mooth the bed ot death, Kxplure the thought, explain the asking eye, And keep a while one parent from the sky ! On cares like these if length of days attend, May Heaven, to bless thosetlays, pri •serve my friend,... | |
 | Alexander Chalmers - English poetry - 1810 - 536 pages
...domestic bliss be thine ! Be no unpleasing melancholy mine : Me, let the tender office long engage, 410 To rock the cradle of reposing age, With lenient arts extend a uioH-.rr's breath, Make languor smile, ad «mooih the bed of death, Explore the thought, explain the... | |
 | William Warburton - 1811 - 444 pages
...service of my neighbour, in my study, and in the office* of filial piety — " With lenient Arts t' extend a Mother's breath, " Make Languor smile, and...Explore the thought, explain the asking eye, " And keep awhile one Parent from the sky." Excess of zeal in such as the letter-writer, and defect of religion... | |
 | William Warburton, Richard Hurd - Anglican Communion - 1811 - 454 pages
...service of my neighbour, in my study, and in the officei of filial piety — " With lenient Arts t' extend a Mother's breath, "^ Make Languor smile, and...Explore the thought, explain the asking eye, " And keep awhile one Parent from the sky." Excess of zeal in such as the letterrwriter, and defect of religion... | |
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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! 
