 | John Nichols - Authors, English - 1817 - 866 pages
...the service of my neighbour, in my study, and in the office! ol 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. Up. fTarburton's Workj, 4to, vol. VI. p. 12. TS "DlA* " DEAR SIR, June... | |
 | Sir Richard Phillips - Arts - 1817 - 348 pages
...lines :— O friend | may each domestic bliss be thine ; , Be no unpleasing melancholy | mine. Or, Me | let the tender office long engage, To rock the cradle | of declining age. Or, O cruel, beauteous, [ ever lovely, | tell Is it in heaven | a crime to love too... | |
 | John Aikin - English poetry - 1820 - 832 pages
...know less joy than I. O friend ! may each domestic bliss be thine ! Be no unpleasing melancholy mine : tude ; he then survey'd Hell and the gulf between,...Satan there Coasting the wall of Heaven on this s sinile, and smooth the bed of death, Explore the thought, explain the asking eye, And^eep awhile one... | |
 | Papirius Cursor - 1821 - 40 pages
...himself with the following — which may well be compared with any that filial piety ever dictated : — Me let the tender office long engage To rock the cradle...Explore the thought, explain the asking eye, And keep at least one parent from the sky.— Pope. PIC-NIC. (Pique-nique — Diet. de Vacademie.) A social... | |
 | John Aikin - English poetry - 1821 - 402 pages
...know less joy than 1. 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 ! On cares like these if length of days attend, May Heaven, to bless... | |
 | John Bowdler - Hymns, English - 1821 - 510 pages
...ourselves, When nature, being oppress'd, commands the mind To suffer with the body. Me, let the teader office long engage, To rock the cradle of reposing...age, With lenient arts extend a Mother's breath, Make langour smile, and smooth the bed of death; Explore the thought, explain the asking eye, And keep a... | |
 | Classical poetry - 1822 - 284 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...asking eye, And keep a while one parent from the sky ! On cares like these, if length of days attend, May Heaven, to bless those days, preserve my friend!... | |
 | Archytas - 1822 - 150 pages
...his mother, in the following most beautiful lines : " Me let the tender office long engage, To rook the cradle of reposing age, With lenient arts extend...languor smile, and smooth the bed of death ; Explore tht thought, eitplain the n.itiny tye, And keep awhile one parent from the skj. of their children is... | |
 | Alexander Pope - Poets, English - 1822 - 452 pages
...Caversham, Esquire.) O Friend ! may each domestic bliss be 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 breath, 410 Make Languor smile, and smooth the bed of Death, NOTES. Ver. 408. Me, let the tender office] These... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1822 - 452 pages
...Caversham, Esquire.) O Friend ! may each domestic bliss be 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 breath, 410 Make Languor smile, and smooth the bed of Death, NOTES. Ver. 408. Me, let the tender office] These... | |
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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! 
