 | Sir Richard Phillips - 1817 - 348 sivua
...lines :— O friend | may each domestic bliss be thine ; , Be no unpleasing melancholy | mine. Or, Me | let the tender office long engage, To rock the cradle | of declining age. Or, O cruel, beauteous, [ ever lovely, | tell Is it in heaven | a crime to love too... | |
 | John Aikin - 1820 - 832 sivua
...know less joy than I. O friend ! may each domestic bliss be thine ! Be no unpleasing melancholy mine : tude ; he then survey'd Hell and the gulf between, and Satan there Coasting the wall of arts extend a mother's breath, Make languor sinile, and smooth the bed of death, Explore the thought,... | |
 | Papirius Cursor - 1821 - 40 sivua
...himself with the following — which may well be compared with any that filial piety ever dictated : — 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 Aikin - 1821 - 402 sivua
...know less joy than 1. 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,... | |
 | John Bowdler - 1821 - 510 sivua
...ourselves, When nature, being oppress'd, commands the mind To suffer with the body. Me, let the teader office long engage, To rock the cradle of reposing age, With lenient arts extend a Mother's breath, Make langour smile, and smooth the bed of death; Explore the thought,... | |
 | British poets - 1822 - 276 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, Makelanguor smile, and smooth the bed of death; Explore the thought,... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1822 - 452 sivua
...Caversham, Esquire.) 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, NOTES. Ver. 408.... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1822 - 452 sivua
...Caversham, Esquire.) 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, NOTES. Ver. 408.... | |
 | 1822 - 148 sivua
...lines : " Me let the tender office long engage, To rook the cradle of reposing age, With lenient arts extend a mother's breath, Make languor smile, and smooth the bed of death , Explore Iht thought, explain tht asking tye, And keep awhile one parent from the skj. of their children is... | |
 | 1823 - 730 sivua
...is good, teach me THY. and in those of the latter, something that reminds me of the filial piety of Pope: " ME let the tender office long engage, To rock the cradle of reposing age ; With lenient arts extend a FATHER'S breath, Make languor smile, and smooth the bed of death." Yours, &c. CAPRICORNUS.... | |
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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... 
