 | John Evans - Life - 1834 - 306 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 towards the aged, the fair... | |
 | Samuel Griswold Goodrich - Almanacs - 1834 - 432 pages
...tender office long engage To rock the cradle of declining age, With lenient arts extend a parent's breath, Make languor smile, and smooth the bed of...Explore the thought, explain the asking eye, And keep awhile a parent from the sky." COUNCIL OF HORSES. A FABLE. UPON a time, a neighing Steerl, Who grazed... | |
 | Samuel Griswold Goodrich - Almanacs - 1834 - 432 pages
...parents, is when they labor under infirmities of body or mind, and in the time of 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 languor smile, and smooth the bed of... | |
 | Samuel Griswold Goodrich - Almanacs - 1834 - 440 pages
...parents, is when they labor under infirmities of body or mind, and in the time of 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 languor smile, and smooth the bed of... | |
 | Alexander Pope - English poetry - 1835 - 382 pages
...know less joy than I. 0 friend ! may each domestic bliss be thine ! Be no unpleasing melancholy mine : Me, let the tender office long engage To rock the...breath, Make languor smile, and smooth the bed of death ; of William Turner, Esq. of York : she had three brothers, one of whom was killed, another died in... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1835 - 378 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, 410 Make languor smile, and smoothe the bed of death, Explore the thought, explain the asking eye,... | |
 | Robert Walsh - Conduct of life - 1836 - 274 pages
...— their " pensive and pathetic sweetness," — appertained of right to the sex which he reviled. " 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 !" Traverse the vast cemetery of Pere La Chaise at Paris, where flowers... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray IV, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle) - English literature - 1883 - 602 pages
...Henry, Lord Brougham.' Written by himself. VoL ip 12. ' Me let the tender office long engage To rock tho cradle of reposing age ; With lenient arts extend...asking eye, And keep a while one parent from the sky.' Pope's deformity came from his father ; and, as regards personal endowments, he might have said with... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray IV, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle) - English literature - 1842 - 578 pages
...omnes, Fraternaeque dabunt pignus amicitise.' Pope's charming lines are thus pleasingly rendered :1 Me let the tender office long engage To rock the cradle of expiring age ; With lenient art extend a mother's breath, Make languor smile, and smooth the bed of... | |
 | Valerie Rumbold, Rumbold Valerie - Literary Criticism - 1989 - 342 pages
...Even the famous lines on Edith's last illness are not so much about her as about her son watching her: Me, let the tender Office long engage To rock the...asking Eye, And keep a while one Parent from the Sky! (line 408) The first extant version of this passage, described in 1731 as 'a few Lines I sent t'other... | |
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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! 
