 | Alexander Pope - 1808 - 702 sivua
...know less joy than I. O friend ! may each domestic blisa be thine! Be no unpleasing melancholy mine: Me, let the tender office long engage, To rock the cradle of reposing age, Witli lenient arts extend a mother's breath, Make langnor smile, and smooth the bedtlf death; Explore... | |
 | British poets - 1809 - 526 sivua
...know less joy than I. O friend! may each domestic bliss be thine f 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 langour smile, and smoothe the bed of death , Explore the thought,... | |
 | 1809 - 402 sivua
...less joy than 1. O friend ! nriy each domestic bliss be thine 5 Be no nnplensiug 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,... | |
 | Vicesimus Knox - 1809 - 604 sivua
...than I. O Friend ! may each domestic bliss be thine ' .Bo no uiiplcusing Melancholy mine: Me let tlK- .rins her reign Slights ev'rybnrrow'd charm that arts extend a Mother's, breath. Make laiisiunr smile, and smooth the bed of death; Explore the thought,... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1812 - 348 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,... | |
 | John Nichols - 1812 - 734 sivua
...by some Letters lately published in the Weekly Miscellany J. By William WarburWith lenient arts t' extend a Mother's 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. " Excess of... | |
 | 1813 - 778 sivua
...most faithfully and most zealously in tending her honoured and helpless distant relatives ; saying, " Me let the tender office long engage, To rock the cradle of declining age !" POPE. .And this, too, in the prime anrt viguur of Hie, although, she herself wanted... | |
 | Frank Elizabeth - 1814 - 400 sivua
...his poetical works, he makes very affectionate mention of her, particularly in the following lines. " 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 (he thought,... | |
 | 1816 - 358 sivua
...of his poetical works, he makes very affectionate menof her, particularly in the following lines. " 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,... | |
 | John Evans - 1817 - 610 sivua
...POPE'S DISSOLUTION. O Friend ! may each domestic bliss be thine, . Be no uupleasing 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,... | |
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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... 
