 | Ethics - 1828 - 234 pages
...is when they labour under infirmities of body or mind, and in the time of their extreme old age. " Me let the tender office long engage To rock the cradle of declining age, With lenient arts extend a parent's breath, Make langour smile, and smooth the bed of... | |
 | Jonathan Mayhew Wainwright - Christian education - 1829 - 132 pages
...but blessed with the presence of another, recur to my memory, and I cannot but give them utterance. 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.* Thus, my beloved young friends, have I spoken to you, in general terms,... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1830 - 500 pages
...know less joy than I. 0 friend ! may each domestic bliss be thine ! Be DO unpleasmg melancholy mine ; field and wood To shun their poison, and to choose their awhile one parent from the sky ! On rare» like these if length of days attend. May Heaven, to bless... | |
 | Robert Chambers - American literature - 1830 - 844 pages
...office lone engage, To rock the cradle of reposing a^e ; \Vitli Icmient arts extend 11 mother's brenth. wo miles in lensth and one in breath. The clouds of smoke were diemall, and rcach' unking eye, Aud keep at least one parent from the sky. Prologue to Ihe Satires. ' As a poet, it would... | |
 | Alexander Pope - English poetry - 1831 - 384 pages
...of his mother;1 " O 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 from... | |
 | Philip Doddridge - 1831 - 580 pages
...the service of my neighbour, in my study, and in the offices 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." Bi*hnp IVarburton's Work*, vol. vi. p. 12, 13. hardened more sinners... | |
 | John Evans - Life - 1831 - 322 pages
...Twickenham ; yet his treatment of an aged mother was exemplary, even to admiration — 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 ! In the discharge of this important duty toward the aged, the fair... | |
 | sir Samuel Egerton Brydges (bart.) - 1832 - 306 pages
...aged mother. •• O 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 ke«p awhile one parent... | |
 | William Phelan - 1832 - 454 pages
...realized : . . • O friend, may each domestic bliss be thine : Be no unpleasing melancholy mine : Mr, let the tender office long engage, To rock the cradle of reposing age ; Explore the thought, explain the asking eye, And keep awhile BOTH PARENTS from the sky ! ' From 1823.,... | |
 | John Kenyon - English poetry - 1833 - 176 pages
...of Pope, from the prologue to the Satires, although 10 well known, can hardly be too often quoted. " Me let the tender office long engage To rock the cradle...Explore the thought, explain the asking eye, And keep awhile one parent from the sky." Note 4, page 18. When the last lingering friend hath bade farewell.... | |
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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! 
