 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...  The Works of Alexander Pope - Seite 47von Alexander Pope - 1822Vollansicht - Über dieses Buch
 | British poets - 1822 - 276 Seiten
...groan. O grant me thus to live, and thus to dje ! Who sprung from kings shall know less joy than I. O friend ! may each domestic bliss be thine ! Be no...reposing age, With lenient arts extend a mother's breath, Makelanguor smile, and smooth the bed of death; Explore the thought, explain the asking eye, And keep... | |
 | 1822 - 150 Seiten
...his mother, in the following most beautiful 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 tht thought, eitplain the n.itiny tye, And... | |
 | 1823 - 714 Seiten
...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. Ancient... | |
 | Richard Alfred Davenport - 1824 - 406 Seiten
...groan. O, grant me thus to live, and thus to die ! Who sprung from kings shall know less joy than I . O friend ! may each domestic bliss be thine ! Be no...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... | |
 | Jacques Delille - 1824 - 474 Seiten
...groan. O grant me thus to live, and thus to die ! Who sprung from kings shall know less joy than I. O friend ! may each domestic bliss be thine ! Be no...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... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1824 - 494 Seiten
...groan. O grant me thus to live, and thus to die ! Who sprung from kings shall know less joy than I. O Friend ! may each domestic bliss be thine ; Be no...office long engage, To rock the cradle of reposing age, NOTES. Ver. 408. Me, let the tender office] These exquisite lines give us a very interesting picture... | |
 | Alexander Pope, William Roscoe - 1824 - 498 Seiten
...groan. 0 grant me thus to live, and thus to die ! Who sprung from kings shall know less joy than I. O Friend ! may each domestic bliss be thine ; Be no...office long engage, To rock the cradle of reposing age, NOTES. Vcr. 408. Me, let the tender office] These exquisite lines give us a very interesting picture... | |
 | Alexander Pope, William Roscoe - 1824 - 498 Seiten
...groan. O grant me thus to live, and thus to die! Who sprung from kings shall know less joy than I. O Friend ! may each domestic bliss be thine; Be no...office long engage, To rock the cradle of reposing age, Vcr. 408. Me, let the tender office] These exquisite lines give us a very interesting picture of the... | |
 | William Hazlitt - 1824 - 1062 Seiten
...from kings shall know less joy than I. O friend ! may each domestic bliss be thine ! Be no unpleaeing melancholy mine: Me let the tender office long engage...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.... | |
 | Samuel Stennett - 1824 - 520 Seiten
...anxiety, its approach they will dread, and use every means in their power to protract it to the utmost a Me let the tender office long engage To rock the cradle...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... | |
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