 | British poets - 1822 - 276 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...reposing age, With lenient arts extend a mother's breath, Makelanguor smile, and smooth the bed of death; Explore the thought, explain the asking eye, And keep... | |
 | English essays - 1823 - 714 pages
...teach me THY. and in those of the latter, something that reminds me of the filial piety of Pope : " ME let the tender office long engage, To rock the...cradle of reposing age ; With lenient arts extend a FATHER'S breath, Make languor smile, and smooth the bed of death." Yours, &c. CAPRICORNUS. Ancient... | |
 | Richard Alfred Davenport - English literature - 1824 - 406 pages
...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... | |
 | Samuel Stennett - Baptists - 1824 - 520 pages
...anxiety, its approach they will dread, and use every means in their power to protract it to the utmost a Me let the tender office long engage To rock the cradle...asking eye, And keep a while one parent from the sky ! POPE. VOL. II. K length. And when it does arrive, they will meet it with tears of genuine sorrow... | |
 | Alexander Pope, William Roscoe - English literature - 1824 - 694 pages
...devoted to the tenderest domestic duties, to which he has alluded in lines never to be forgotten : i" Me let the tender office long engage, To rock the...Explore the thought, explain the asking eye, And keep at least one parent from the sky." Prol. to the Satires. Nor can such a remark justly be applied to... | |
 | William Hazlitt - English poetry - 1824 - 1062 pages
...know less joy than I. O friend ! may each domestic bliss be thine ! Be no unpleaeing melancholy mine: lowers, Breath'd his soft gales, and led the fragrant...her mov'd, a duteous band! Each bore a crook all ru awhile one parent from the sky ! On cares like these if length of days attend, May Heaven, to Ыeи... | |
 | Jacques Delille - English poetry - 1824 - 462 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...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... | |
 | Sholto Percy, Reuben Percy - London (England) - 1824 - 392 pages
...son, our present sovereign, who had the gratifying but painful task, " To rock the cradle of declining age ; With lenient arts extend a mother's breath,...the bed of death ; Explore the thought, explain the aching eye, And keep awhile one parent from the sky." HAMPTON COURT. That one prelate should build... | |
 | Thomas Bowdler - 1824 - 342 pages
...— " Me let the pleasing office long engage To rock the cradle of declining dge; With lenient hand extend a mother's breath, Make languor smile, and smooth the bed of death; Explore each thought, explain the asking eye, And keep awhile one parent from the sky." Mr. Bowdler's principles... | |
 | Alexander Pope, William Roscoe - English literature - 1824 - 498 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 of reposing age, Vcr. 408. Me, let the tender office] These exquisite lines give us a very interesting picture of the... | |
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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! 
