...We are continually reminded of those exquisite lines, which few sons have equally realized : . . • O friend, may each domestic bliss be thine : Be no unpleasing melancholy mine : Mr, let the tender office long engage, To rock the cradle of reposing age ; Explore the thought,...

...of Pope, from the prologue to the Satires, although 10 well known, can hardly be too often quoted. " Me let the tender office long engage To rock the cradle...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...

...parents, is when they labor under 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...

...parents, is when they labor under 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...

...groan. O, grant me thus to live, and thus to die ! 404 Who sprung from kings shall know less joy than I. O friend, may each domestic bliss be thine ; Be no...extend a mother's breath, 410 Make languor smile, and smoothe the bed of death, Explore the thought, explain the asking eye, And keep awhile one parent from...

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...— their " pensive and pathetic sweetness," — appertained of right to the sex which he reviled. " Me, let the tender office long engage, To rock the...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...

...mind familiar with the elegant and the tender, but a heart "tremblingly alive" with sensibility. " Me let the tender office long engage, To rock the cradle of reposing age. With lenient acts extend a mother's breath. Make languor smile, and smooth the bed of death ; Explore the thought,...

...omnes, Fraternsequc dabunt pignus amicitise.' Pope's charming lines arc thus pleasingly rendered : — ' Me let the tender office long engage To rock the cradle of expiring age ; With lenient art extend a mother's breath, Make languor smile, and smooth the bed of...

...from kings shall know less joy than I. О Friend ! may each domestic bliss be thine ! Bo no unpleaeuig ud science never taught to stray Far as the solar walk, or Milky Way ; Yet Himple nature tu Make languor smile, and smooth the bed of death, Explore the thought, explain the asking eye, And keep...