 | Sholto Percy, Reuben Percy - 1824 - 392 pages
...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...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... | |
 | William Hazlitt - 1824 - 1062 pages
...know less joy than I. O friend ! may each domestic bliss be thine ! Be no unpleaeing melancholy mine: lowers, Breath'd his soft gales, and led the fragrant hours, With sure return she sou arts extend a mother's breath, Make languor smile, and smooth the bed of death, Explore the thought,... | |
 | Richard Alfred Davenport - 1824 - 406 pages
...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 cradle of reposing age, With lenient arts extend a mother's breath, Make languor smile, and smooth the bed of death ; Explore the thought,... | |
 | 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 of reposing age ; With lenient arts extend a mother's breath, Make languor smile, and smooth the bed of death : Explore the thought,... | |
 | Jacques Delille - 1824 - 474 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 cradle of reposing age, With lenient arts extend a mother's breath, Make languor smile, and smooth the bed of death ; Explore the thought,... | |
 | Alexander Pope, William Roscoe - 1824 - 498 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 cradle of reposing age, Vcr. 408. Me, let the tender office] These exquisite lines give us a very interesting picture of the... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1824 - 494 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 cradle of reposing age, NOTES. Ver. 408. Me, let the tender office] These exquisite lines give us a very interesting picture... | |
 | Thomas Bowdler - 1824 - 342 pages
...— " Me let the pleasing office long engage To rock the cradle of declining dge; With lenient hand extend a mother's breath, Make languor smile, and smooth the bed of death; Explore each thought, explain the asking eye, And keep awhile one parent from the sky." Mr. Bowdler's principles... | |
 | Alexander Pope, William Roscoe - 1824 - 498 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 cradle of reposing age, NOTES. Vcr. 408. Me, let the tender office] These exquisite lines give us a very interesting picture... | |
 | British anthology - 1825 - 460 pages
...less joy than I. () friend ! may each domestic bliss be thine ! Be no unpleasing melancholy mine ! 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 smoothe the bed of death ; Explore the thought,... | |
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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... 
