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, explain the asking eye, And... The Poetical Works of Alexander Pope - Página 277de Alexander Pope - 1873 - 600 páginasVisualização completa - Sobre este livro
| Alexander Pope, William Roscoe - 1824 - 498 páginas
...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 unpleasing...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... | |
| Alexander Pope - 1824 - 494 páginas
...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 unpleasing...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... | |
| Sholto Percy, Reuben Percy - 1824 - 392 páginas
...son, our present sovereign, who had the gratifying but painful task, " To rock the cradle of declining age ; With lenient arts extend a mother's breath,...the bed of death ; Explore the thought, explain the aching eye, And keep awhile one parent from the sky." HAMPTON COURT. That one prelate should build... | |
| Alexander Pope - 1825 - 536 páginas
...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 unpleasing...Explore the thought, explain the asking eye, And keep awhile one parent from the sky ! On cares like these if length of days attend, May Heaven, to bless... | |
| British anthology - 1825 - 460 páginas
...grant me thus to live, and thus to die ! Who sprung from kings shall know less joy than I. () friend ! may each domestic bliss be thine ! Be no unpleasing...extend a mother's breath, Make languor smile, and smoothe the bed of death ; Explore the thought, explain the asking eye, And keep awhile one parent... | |
| William Hazlitt - 1825 - 600 páginas
...thine ! Be no unpleasing melaneholy mine : Me let the tender offiee long engage To roek the eradle iin' thought, explain the asking eye, And keep awhile one parent from the sky ! On eares like these... | |
| John Aikin - 1826 - 840 páginas
...Who sprung from kings shall know less joy than 4. 0 friend ! may each domestic bliss be thine ! Be DO unpleasing melancholy mine : Me, let the tender office...reposing age, With lenient arts extend a mother's breath, Hike languor smile, and smooth the bed of death, Eiplore the thought, explain the asking eye, And keep... | |
| Alexander Pope - 1828 - 264 páginas
...from kings shall know less joy than I. 0 friend ! may each domestic bliss be thine ! Be no unplcasing melancholy mine: Me, let the tender office long engage,...Explore the thought, explain the asking eye, And keep awhile one parent from the sky ! On cares like these if length of days attend, May Heaven, to bless... | |
| 1828 - 814 páginas
...will ne'er be entombed with the dead While life holds its seat in my heart. M'Comb. DUTY TO PARENTS. 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 I Pope. THE FALL OF JERICHO. ' Ye warriors of Israel, encompass the... | |
| Jonathan Mayhew Wainwright - 1829 - 132 páginas
...but blessed with the presence of another, recur to my memory, and I cannot but give them utterance. 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.* Thus, my beloved young friends, have I spoken to you, in general terms,... | |
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