 | 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, NOTES. Vcr. 408. Me, let the tender office] These exquisite lines give us a very interesting picture... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1825 - 536 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... | |
 | British anthology - 1825 - 460 pages
...less joy than I. () friend ! may each domestic bliss be thine ! Be no unpleasing melancholy mine ! Me, let the tender office long engage To rock the...extend a mother's breath, Make languor smile, and smoothe the bed of death ; Explore the thought, explain the asking eye, And keep awhile one parent... | |
 | William Hazlitt - English poetry - 1825 - 600 pages
...thine ! Be no unpleasing melaneholy mine : Me let the tender offiee long engage To roek the eradle iin' thought, explain the asking eye, And keep awhile one parent from the sky ! On eares like these... | |
 | Thomas Bowdler - 1825 - 364 pages
...— " Me let the pleasing office long engage To rock the cradle of declining age ; 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... | |
 | John Aikin - English poetry - 1826 - 840 pages
...know less joy than 4. 0 friend ! may each domestic bliss be thine ! Be DO unpleasing melancholy mine : Me, let the tender office long engage, To rock the...reposing age, With lenient arts extend a mother's breath, Hike languor smile, and smooth the bed of death, Eiplore the thought, explain the asking eye, And keep... | |
 | John Barclay (of Calcots.) - English language - 1826 - 182 pages
...3. Hence BREATH, and the words equivalent to it in other languages, are transferred to denote life. With lenient arts extend a mother's breath Make languor smile, and smooth the bed of death. Leontes. My true Paulina, We shall not marry until thou bidst us. Paulina. That Shall be when your... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1826 - 396 pages
...may each domestic hliss he thine ! Be no unpleasing melancholy mine; Me, let the tender office loug e heady howl, Thrice drain'd, and pour'd the delnge ou his soul, tlis seuse lay hreath, Make languor smile, and smooth the hed of death ; Explore the thonght, explain the asking eye,... | |
 | English poetry - 1828 - 814 pages
...will ne'er be entombed with the dead While life holds its seat in my heart. M'Comb. DUTY TO PARENTS. 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 I Pope. THE FALL OF JERICHO. ' Ye warriors of Israel, encompass the... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1828 - 264 pages
...know less joy than I. 0 friend ! may each domestic bliss be thine ! Be no unplcasing 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... | |
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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! 
