...paralyzed by vice or crime will unite in the wish so well expressed in Pope's celebrated strain: " Me let the tender office long engage To rock the cradle...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...

...affections. There are probably few readers of English poetry who have not the following lines by heart. Me, let the tender office long engage To rock the...; With lenient arts extend a mother's breath, Make langour smile, and smooth the bed of death ; Explore the thought, explain the asking eye, And keep...

...kings shall know less joy than I. Oh, friend ! may each domestic bliss be thine ! Be no unpleasing melancholy mine: Me let the tender office long engage...May Heaven, to bless those days, preserve my friend, Preser re him social, cheerful and serene, And just as rich as when he served a queen. A. Whether that...

...changed the word asking- into aching, and thus lessened the finely graphic effect of the original. Me, let the tender office long engage To rock the...asking eye, And keep a while one parent from the sky ! WARREN HASTINGS ON THE BEGUM CHARGE. 433 if he had not been so thoroughly acquainted with the true...

...will occur, as aptly describing a reality which the poet never beheld nor even imagined more perfect. "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." During the residence of Mrs. and Miss Preble in Washington, they paid...

...attention and unbounded affection. " 0 Friend ! may each domestic bliss be thine ! Be no unpleasing melancholy mine : Me, let the tender office long engage,...Explore the thought, explain the asking eye, And keep awhile one parent from the sky !" Epistle to Arbvthnot. The elder Pope had been successful in business....

...devoted attention and unbounded affection. " 0 Friend! may each domestic bliss be thine! Be no unpleosing melancholy mine: Me, let the tender office long engage,...death, Explore the thought, explain the asking eye, *Tid keep awhile one parent from the sky 1" Epistle to Arbuthnol. The elder Pope had been successful...

...mother there are tears in his voice, and it is impossible not to recognize genuine warmth of heart. Me let the tender office long engage To rock the cradle...extend a mother's breath, Make languor smile, and soothe the bed of death, Explore the thought, explain the asking eye, And keep awhile one parent from...

...from King's shall know less joy than I. 0 Friend ! may each domestic bliss be thine ! Be no unpleasing Melancholy mine: Me, let the tender office long engage....Age, With lenient arts extend a Mother's breath. Make Langour smile, and smooth the bed of Death, 1 A Roman proconsul who in the war with Jugurtha was disgraced...

...unpleasin<r melancholy m:ne: Me, let the tender office long engage To rock the cradle of reposing Age, 409 less years, Silent went next, neglectful of her charms And Heav'n, to bless those days, preserve my friend ! Preserve him social, cheerful, and serene, And just...