 Me, let the tender office long engage To rock the cradle of reposing age, With lenient arts extend a mother's breath, 410 Make languor smile, and smooth the bed of death, Explore the thought, explain the asking eye, And keep a while one parent from the...  The Poetical Works of Alexander Pope - Seite 10von Alexander Pope - 1853Vollansicht - Über dieses Buch
 | Alexander Pope, Alexander Dyce - 1854 - 352 Seiten
...had written in 1731, by the bed-side of his mother;1 " 0 friend ! may each domestic bliss be thine ; Be no unpleasing melancholy mine ! Me, let the tender...extend a mother's breath, Make languor smile, and smoothe the bed of death, Explore the thought, explain the asking eye, And keep awhile one parent from... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1854 - 338 Seiten
...Who sprung from kings shall know less joy than I.64 405 O friend ! may each domestic bliss be thine ! Be no unpleasing melancholy mine : Me, let the tender...reposing age, With lenient arts extend a mother's breath, 410 Make languor smile, and smooth the bed of death. Explore the thought, explain the asking eye, And... | |
 | Samuel Griswold Goodrich - 1854 - 264 Seiten
...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... | |
 | William Hague - 1855 - 276 Seiten
...paralyzed by vice or crime will unite in the wish so well expressed in Pope's celebrated strain: " Me let the tender office long engage To rock the cradle...extend a mother's breath, Make languor smile, and smoothe the bed of death ; Explore the thought, explain the asking eye, And keep awhile one parent... | |
 | David Lester Richardson - 1855 - 296 Seiten
...affections. There are probably few readers of English poetry who have not the following lines by heart. Me, let the tender office long engage To rock the...; With lenient arts extend a mother's breath, Make langour smile, and smooth the bed of death ; Explore the thought, explain the asking eye, And keep... | |
 | Henry Reed - 1855 - 424 Seiten
...his mother, beautiful for their truth of feeling : "Oh, friend, may each domestic bliss be thine ! 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... | |
 | Henry Reed - 1855 - 416 Seiten
...his mother, beautiful for their truth of feeling : " Oh, friend, may each domestic bliss be thine ! 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 breathMake languor smile, and smooth the bed of... | |
 | George Paston - 1909 - 430 Seiten
...concludes his apologia with a touching allusion to his own long and devoted attendance on his aged mother. Me let the tender office long engage To rock the cradle...languor smile, and smooth the bed of death, Explore the thoughts, explain the asking eye, And keep a while one parent from the sky. With this superb Epistle... | |
 | Henry George Bohn, Anna Lydia Ward - 1911 - 784 Seiten
...cannot stamp their race, With signatures of such majestic grace. 3696 Pope : Odyssey. Bk. iv. Line 75 Me, let the tender office long engage To rock the...breath, Make languor smile, and smooth the bed of death. PARLIAMENT. Britain, changeful as a child at play, Now calls in princes, and now turns away; Now Whig,... | |
 | Henry George Bohn - 1911 - 784 Seiten
...stamp their race, With signatures of such majestic grace. 3696 Pope : Odyssey. Bk. iv. Line 75 Mo, let the tender office long engage To rock the cradle...breath, Make languor smile, and smooth the bed of death. PARLIAMENT. Britain, changeful as a child at play, Now calls in princes, and now turns away; Now Whig,... | |
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