 | Hugh Swinton Legaré - 1846 - 652 pages
...years of his mother: "Ah Mend ! may each domestic Wins be thine ! Be no intruding melancholy mine ! Me, let the tender office long engage To rock the cradle of declining age, With lenient aits extend a mother's breath, Make languor smile and soothe the bed of... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1847 - 546 pages
...devoted to the tenderest domestic duties, to which he has alluded in lines never to be forgotten : " 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,... | |
 | Charles Walton Sanders, Joshua Chase Sanders - 1848 - 468 pages
...o'er-spreading tone', The sounds that sighed—'- Farewell', farewell' 1" Are gone' — all gone' ! 5. Me let the tender office long engage', To rock the cradle of reposing age' ; With lenient arts' extend a moth'er's breath', Make languor smile', and smooth the bed of death' ; Explore the thought',... | |
 | Alexander Pope, William Charles Macready - 1849 - 646 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,... | |
 | Henry Bartlett Maglathlin - 1849 - 80 pages
...happiness ! unlooked for joy ! Never let love despair ! Thy prize is mine ! 3. Love and Tenderness* Me let the tender office long engage, To rock the cradle of reposing age ; To what is plaintiveness suited ? With what is it accompanied'.' What is rule first? Rule second?... | |
 | Henry Bartlett Maglathlin - 1850 - 88 pages
...happiness ! unlooked for joy ! Never let love despair ! Thy prize is mine ! 3. Love and Tenderness.* Me let the tender office long engage, To rock the cradle of reposing age ; To what is phiintiveness suited ? With what is it accompanied ? What is rule first? Rule second?... | |
 | George William McClelland - 1925 - 1180 pages
...know less joy than I. O Friend! may each domestic bliss be thine! Be no unpleasing Melancholy mine: — and the coarsest hunger might barter her consistently for a mutton chop. arts extend a Mother's breath, <10 Make Languor smile, and smooth the bed of Death, -Explore the thought,... | |
 | William Joseph Long - 1925 - 844 pages
...as near as he could to a real rather than an artificial sentiment when he wrote of his old mother : Me let the tender office long engage, To rock the cradle of reposing age. Works of Pope. Pope's first important work, An Essay on Criticism (l7ll), is an echo of the rules which... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1926 - 306 pages
...less joy than I. 405 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, 414 Make Languor smile, and smooth the bed of Death, « Explore the... | |
 | Tom Peete Cross, Clement Tyson Goode - 1927 - 1432 pages
...less joy than I. .405 0 friend! may each domestic bliss be thine! Be no unpleasing melancholy mine: imitars wi' murd $;rusted ; A garter which a babe had ډ arts extend a Mother's breath, 410 Make Languor smile, and smooth the bed 500 MATTHEW PRIOR And keep... | |
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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... 
