 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray IV, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle) - 1842 - 578 sivua
...omnes, Fraternaeque dabunt pignus amicitise.' Pope's charming lines are thus pleasingly rendered :1 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... | |
 | Valerie Rumbold - 1989 - 342 sivua
...Even the famous lines on Edith's last illness are not so much about her as about her son watching her: 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,... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1998 - 260 sivua
...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, 410 Make languor smile, and smooth the bed of death, Explore the thought,... | |
 | Robert Douglas-Fairhurst - 2002 - 396 sivua
...when further extending the literary life of the man he most often claimed as his poetic father, Homer: 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 . . . 87 84 'A Special... | |
 | Robert Douglas-Fairhurst - 2002 - 390 sivua
...when further extending the literary life of the man he most often claimed as his poetic father, Homer: Me, let the tender Office long engage To rock the Cradle of repoting Age, With lenient Arts extend a Mother's beeath. Make Languor smile, and smooth the Bed of... | |
 | W. H. Auden - 2004 - 604 sivua
...welcome even the last ! 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,... | |
 | Joseph Warton - 2004 - 440 sivua
...quatres vers. •28. O friend ! may each domeftic blifs be thine ! Be no unpleafmg melancholy mine ! Me, let the tender office long engage, To rock the cradle of repofing age* ; With lenient arts extend, a mother's breath, Make languor fmile, and fmooth the bed... | |
 | Louise Barnett - 2006 - 238 sivua
...himself in the role of the devoted son who exercises the maternal office for his own aging mother: 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,... | |
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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... 
