 | John Bell - 1796 - 480 pages
...from kings shall know less joy than l. 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, Explore the thought, explain the asking eye. And... | |
 | Vicesimus Knox - 1796 - 574 pages
...from Kings (hall know lefs joy than I. О Friend ! may each domeftic blifs be thine ! Be no unplcafing Melancholy mine : Me let the tender office long engage, To rock the cradle of repofing Age ; With lenient arts extend a Mother's breath, iVJakc languor fmile, and fmooth the lied... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1800 - 496 pages
...Kings (lull know left joy than I. 405 O Friend ' may each dome/He blifs be thine ! Be no unplealing Melancholy mine: Me, let the tender office long engage, To rock the cradle of repofing Age, , With lerientartstxtend a Mother's breath, 410 Make Languor fmile, and fmooth the bed... | |
 | Samuel Stennett - 1800 - 478 pages
...parental cave and love ! AfFefting examples of this kind I might here cite, but they (hall be referred * Me let the tender office long engage To rock the cradle of repofing age ; With lenient arts extend a mother's breath, Hake languor (mile, and fmooth the bed of... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1804 - 190 pages
...kings shall know less joy than I. Oh, 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, Explore the thought, explain' the asking eye,... | |
 | Nathan Drake - 1805 - 424 pages
...pathetically alludes to his filial duty. O Friend ! may each domestic bliss be thine ! Be no unpleasing melancholy mine: Me, let the tender office long engage,...asking eye, And keep awhile one parent from the sky ! Johnson, speaking of this amiable feature in the character of Pope, observes, that " his parents... | |
 | Nathan Drake - 1805 - 420 pages
...pathetically alludes to his filial duty. O Friend ! may each domestic bliss be thine ! Be no unpleasing melancholy mine : Me, let the tender office long engage,...cradle of reposing age, With lenient arts extend a MotheVs breath, Make Languor smile, and smooth the bed of Death, Explore the thought, explain the asking... | |
 | Job Orton - 1805 - 376 pages
...other / following lines of Mr. POPE, which were defcriptive of their filial affeftion towards her. Me, let the tender office long engage, To rock the cradle of repofing age ; With lenient arts, extend a Mutter's breath, Make langour (mile, and fmooth the bed... | |
 | Joseph Warton - 1806 - 440 pages
...Richardson, desiring him to come to Twickenham, and take a sketch of his mother, just after she was With lenient arts extend a mother's breath, Make languor...asking eye, And keep awhile one parent from the sky!* These exquisite lines give us a very interesting picture of the exemplary filial piety of our author,... | |
 | Joseph Warton - 1806 - 440 pages
...mother, just after she was With lenient arts extend a mother's breath, Make languor smile, and smuoth the bed of death ; Explore the thought, explain the...asking eye, And keep awhile one parent from the sky !* These exquisite lines give us a very interesting picture of the exemplary filial piety of our author,... | |
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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... 
