 Be no unpleasing melancholy mine ! Me let the tender office long engage To rock the cradle of declining 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,...  Dialogues of the Dead with the Living - Page 225by Philip Parsons - 1779 - 227 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Henry Kett - 1803 - 468 pages
...by tutors and profeffors ; cultivate the acquaintance of the learned, the accomplifhed, the I r . * With lenient arts extend a mother's breath, Make languor fmile, and fmooth the bed of death, Explore the thought, explain the afking eye, And keep awhile one parent from the iky.'" Prologue to... | |
 | Alexander Pope, William Lisle Bowles - 1806 - 504 pages
...his own happinefs to confill : " Me, let the tender office long engage To rock the Cradle of repofing Age ; With lenient arts extend a Mother's breath, Make Languor fmile, and fmooth the bed of Death ; Explore the thought, explain the afking eye, A:id keep a while one Parent from the llcy !" And And... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1806 - 550 pages
...his own happincfs to confifl : " Me, let the tender office long engage To rock the Cradle of tepofing Age ; With lenient arts extend a Mother's breath, Make Languor fmile, and fmooth the bed of Death ; Explore the thought, explain the afking eye, And keep a while one Parent from the (ley !" And And... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1806 - 508 pages
...his own happinefs to confill : " Me, let the tender office long engage To rock the Cradle of tepofing Age ; With lenient arts extend a Mother's breath, Make Languor fmile, and fmooth the bed of Death; Explore the thought, explain the afking eye, And keep a while one Parent from the (ky !'' AtMJ And... | |
 | 1818 - 646 pages
...This sentiment has prompted some of the finest lines of Pope. ' Me lot the tender office long; engage, To rock the cradle of declining age; With lenient arts extend a mother's hreath, Make languor smile and smooth the hed of death: Explore the thought, explain the asking eye,... | |
 | Sholto Percy, Reuben Percy - 1824 - 392 pages
...her last in the arms of her 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, Make languor smile, and smooth the bed of death ; Explore the thought, explain the aching eye, And keep awhile one... | |
 | Ethics - 1828 - 234 pages
...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 death : Explore the thought, explain the... | |
 | Samuel Griswold Goodrich - 1834 - 432 pages
...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 death ; Explore the thought, explain the... | |
 | Samuel Griswold Goodrich - 1834 - 440 pages
...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 death; Explore the thought, explain the... | |
 | Clara Lucas Balfour - 1852 - 458 pages
...tender affection for his parents — his mother particularly. " Me let the tender office long engage, To rock the cradle of declining 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 at least... | |
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