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, explain the asking eye, And... The Poetical Works of Alexander Pope - Seite 277von Alexander Pope - 1873 - 600 SeitenVollansicht - Über dieses Buch
| 1853 - 956 Seiten
...— " O friend ! may each domestic bliss be thine ; Be no unpleasing melancholy mine : Me, let tho tender office long engage. To rock the cradle of reposing...breath. Make languor smile, and smooth the bed of death j Explore the thought, explain the asking eye, And keep awhile one parent from the sky I" We have already... | |
| Cyclopaedia - 1853 - 772 Seiten
...condemn. Butler. PAEENTS. ME let the tender office long engage To rock the cradle of reposing age; AVith lenient arts extend a mother's breath, Make languor...Explore the thought, explain the asking eye, And keep awhile one parent from the sky. Pope. Parents are o'erseen, When, with too strict a rein, they do hold... | |
| Chauncey Allen Goodrich - 1853 - 972 Seiten
...of reposing age. With lenient arts extend n mother's breath, Make languoi smile, and smooth the bnd of death , Explore the thought, explain the asking eye. And keep a while one parent from the sky I WARREN HASTINGS ON THE BEGUM CHARGE. 433 if he had not been so thoroughly acquainted with the true... | |
| Joseph Addison - 1854 - 584 Seiten
...not only write such verses as these, but live-Tip to them, has at least some claim to our respect. Me let the tender office long engage To rock the cradle...death. ; Explore the thought, explain the asking eye, forced to own, that there was a charm in Addison's talk which could be found nowhere else. Swift, when... | |
| Alexander Pope, Alexander Dyce - 1854 - 352 Seiten
...verses, altered and improved, which he had written in 1731, by the bed-side of his mother;1 " 0 friend ! may each domestic bliss be thine ; Be no unpleasing...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
...thus to live, and thus to die ! Who sprung from kings shall know less joy than I.64 405 O friend ! may each domestic bliss be thine ! Be no unpleasing...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... | |
| Sarah Josepha Buell Hale - 1855 - 612 Seiten
...have a ehild that will revenge die deed. PAIN. Me lut the tender offiee long engage To roek the eradle of reposing age ; With lenient arts extend a mother's...Explore the thought, explain the asking eye, And keep awhile one parent from the sky. Pope. PARTING. All she did, was but to wear out day. Full oftentimes... | |
| 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... | |
| George Herbert Palmer - 1918 - 338 Seiten
...administered is best. From vulgar bounds with brave disorder part, And snatch a grace beyond the reach of art. Me let the tender office long engage To rock the cradle...Explore the thought, explain the asking eye, And keep awhile one parent from the sky. On Sir Isaac Newton — Nature and nature's laws lay hid in night.... | |
| George Herbert Palmer - 1918 - 334 Seiten
...administered is best. From vulgar bounds with brave disorder part, And snatch a grace beyond the reach of art. Me let the tender office long engage To rock the cradle...Explore the thought, explain the asking eye, And keep awhile one parent from the sky. Nature and nature's laws lay hid in night. God said, "Let Newton be!"... | |
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