 | Alexander Pope - 1822 - 452 pages
...John Loveday, of Caversham, Esquire.) O Friend ! may each domestic bliss be thine ! Be no unpleasing Melancholy mine : Me, let the tender office long engage,...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... | |
 | British poets - 1822 - 276 pages
...from kings shall 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...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... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1822 - 452 pages
...John Loveday, of Caversham, Esquire.) O Friend ! may each domestic bliss be thine ! Be no unpleasing Melancholy mine : Me, let the tender office long engage,...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... | |
 | 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... | |
 | 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... | |
 | Jacques Delille - 1824 - 474 pages
...from kings shall 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,...death ; 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,... | |
 | William Hazlitt - 1824 - 1062 pages
...from kings shall know less joy than I. O friend ! may each domestic bliss be thine ! Be no unpleaeing the plains with flowers, Breath'd his soft gales,...maids around her mov'd, a duteous band! Each bore a cr And. keep awhile one parent from the sky ! On cares like these if length of days attend, May Heaven,... | |
 | Richard Alfred Davenport - 1824 - 406 pages
...from kings shall 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...death ; Explore the thought, explain the asking eye, And keep a while one parent from the sky ! On cares like these, if length of days attend, May Heaven,... | |
 | Samuel Stennett - 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...death : Explore the thought, explain the asking eye, And keep a while one parent from the sky ! POPE. VOL. II. K length. And when it does arrive, they will... | |
 | Sholto Percy, Reuben Percy - 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... | |
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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 awhile one parent from the sky... 
