 | sir Samuel Egerton Brydges (bart.) - 1832 - 306 Seiten
...tenderness for his aged mother. •• O friend! may each domestic bliss be thine; Be no unpleasing melancholy mine ! Me let the tender office long engage,...extend a mother's breath, Make languor smile, and smoothe the bed of death ; Explore the thought, explain the asking eye, And ke«p awhile one parent... | |
 | John Kenyon - 1833 - 176 Seiten
...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...Explore the thought, explain the asking eye, And keep awhile one parent from the sky." Note 4, page 18. When the last lingering friend hath bade farewell.... | |
 | John Evans - 1834 - 306 Seiten
...Twickenham ; yet his treatment of an aged mother was exemplary, even to admiration — With lenient arts t' extend a mother's breath, Make languor smile, and...Explore the thought, explain the asking eye, And keep awhile ONE PARENT from the sky ! In the discharge of this important duty towards the aged, the fair... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1835 - 378 Seiten
...from kings shall 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,...reposing age, With lenient arts extend a mother's breath, 410 Make languor smile, and smoothe the bed of death, Explore the thought, explain the asking eye,... | |
 | Robert Walsh - 1836 - 274 Seiten
...— their " pensive and pathetic sweetness," — appertained of right to the sex which he reviled. " Me, let the tender office long engage, To rock the...Explore the thought, explain the asking eye, And keep awhile one parent from the sky !" Traverse the vast cemetery of Pere La Chaise at Paris, where flowers... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1836 - 502 Seiten
...from kings shall know less joy than I. O friend ! may each domestic hliss he thine ! Be no unpleasing envy cursed, And the heat hreath, Make languor smile, and smooth the hed of death ; Eiplbre the thought, explain the asking eye,... | |
 | Leonard Woods, Charles D. Pigeon - 1838 - 708 Seiten
...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...Explore the thought, explain the asking eye, And keep awhile one parent from the sky." Johnson's remarks upon Pope's letters, possess an originality, and... | |
 | John Aikin - 1841 - 840 Seiten
...friend ! may each domestic bliss be thine ! Be no unpleasing melancholy mine : Me, let the tender oflice +Kl6 H lliR thought, explain the asking eye, And keep awhile one parent from the sky ! On cares like these... | |
 | Seven ages - 1842 - 154 Seiten
...perhaps, there can be found no filial tribute which has more feeling and poetry than the lines of Pope : 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. We may conclude this subject with one of the most striking examples... | |
 | John Aikin - 1843 - 826 Seiten
...from kings shall know less joy than I. O friend ' may each domestic bliss be thine ! Be no unpleasing awhile one parent from the sky ! On cares like these if length of days attend, May Heaven, to bless... | |
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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... 
