 | Alexander Pope - 1825 - 536 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,... | |
 | William Hazlitt - 1825 - 600 pages
...melaneholy mine : Me let the tender offiee long engage To roek the eradle of reposing age, With lenient arts Davi iin' thought, explain the asking eye, And keep awhile one parent from the sky ! On eares like these... | |
 | Thomas Bowdler - 1825 - 364 pages
...— " Me let the pleasing office long engage To rock the cradle of declining age ; 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... | |
 | John Barclay (of Calcots.) - 1826 - 184 pages
...and the words equivalent to it in other languages, are transferred to denote life. With lenient arts extend a mother's breath Make languor smile, and smooth the bed of death. Leontes. My true Paulina, We shall not marry until thou bidst us. Paulina. That Shall be when your... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1828 - 264 pages
...know less joy than I. 0 friend ! may each domestic bliss be thine ! Be no unplcasing 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,... | |
 | 1828 - 814 pages
...will ne'er be entombed with the dead While life holds its seat in my heart. M'Comb. DUTY TO PARENTS. 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,... | |
 | Ethics - 1828 - 234 pages
...is when they labour under 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... | |
 | Jonathan Mayhew Wainwright - 1829 - 132 pages
...but blessed with the presence of another, recur to my memory, and I cannot but give them utterance. 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 - 1830 - 500 pages
...know less joy than I. 0 friend ! may each domestic bliss be thine ! Be DO unpleasmg melancholy mine ; field and wood To shun their poison, and to choose their arts extend a mother's breath, Make languor smile, and smooth the bed of death ; Explore the thought,... | |
 | sir Samuel Egerton Brydges (bart.) - 1832 - 306 pages
...aged mother. •• 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 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... 
