 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 a while one parent from the sky...  The Works of Alexander Pope: Satires, &c - Página 27de Alexander Pope - 1757Vista completa - Acerca de este libro
 | Robert Anderson - 1795 - 906 páginas
...groan. O graut me thus to live, and thus to die ! Who fprung from kings (hall know lefs joy than I. О friend ! may each domeftic blifs be thine '. Be no...repofing age, With lenient arts extend a mother's breath, 41* Make languor fmile, and fmooth the bed of death, Explore the thought, explain the aiking eye. And... | |
 | Vicesimus Knox - 1796 - 574 páginas
...from Kings (hall know lefs joy than I. О Friend ! may each domeftic blifs be thine ! Be no unplcafing Melancholy mine : Me let the tender office long engage,...Age ; With lenient arts extend a Mother's breath, iVJakc languor fmile, and fmooth the lied of death Expl .re the thought, explain the alking eye, And... | |
 | John Bell - 1796 - 480 páginas
...from kings shall know less joy than l. 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... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1797 - 472 páginas
...inftant, and without a groan. O grant me, thus to live, and thus to die ! 404 Who fprung from Kings fhall know lefs joy than I. O Friend ! may each domeftic...lenient arts extend a Mother's breath, 410 Make Languor finile, and finooth the bed of Death, Explore VAR I AT ION S. After Vcv. 405. in the MS. And of myfelf,... | |
 | Samuel Stennett - 1800 - 478 páginas
...parental cave and love ! AfFefting examples of this kind I might here cite, but they (hall be referred * Me let the tender office long engage To rock the cradle...age ; With lenient arts extend a mother's breath, Hake languor (mile, and fmooth the bed of deatli; 3" Explore the thought, ex-plain the aiking eye,... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1800 - 496 páginas
...Kings (lull know left joy than I. 405 O Friend ' may each dome/He blifs be thine ! Be no unplealing Melancholy mine: Me, let the tender office long engage, To rock the cradle of repofing Age, , With lerientartstxtend a Mother's breath, 410 Make Languor fmile, and fmooth the bed of Death, Explore the... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1800 - 496 páginas
...Irani Kings (lull know left joy than I. O Friend ' may each dome/He blifs be thine! Be no unplealing Melancholy mine: Me, let the tender office long engage, To rock the cradle of repofing Age, , 405 With lerientartstxtend a Mother's breath, 410 Make Languor fmile, and fmooth the bed of Death,... | |
 | Henry Kett - 1803 - 468 páginas
...III. Refled .* Pope never wrote fweeter lines than thofe which were dictated by filial affeftion. " Me, let the tender office long engage To rock the cradle of repofing age, • ..: With , III. Reflect that time purfues his flight on rapid wings — and that the hours of youth, like the... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1804 - 496 páginas
...each domeftic blifs be thine ! Be no unpleafing Melancholy mine: Me, let the tender office longengagt, To rock the cradle of repofing Age, With lenient arts extend a Mother's breath, 410 Make Languor fniiie, and fmoot!i th; bed of Death, Explore the thought, explain the alkine eye, And keep a while... | |
 | Job Orton - 1805 - 376 páginas
...other / following lines of Mr. POPE, which were defcriptive of their filial affeftion towards her. Me, let the tender office long engage, To rock the...cradle of repofing age ; With lenient arts, extend a Mutter's breath, Make langour (mile, and fmooth the bed of death ; Explore the thought, explain the... | |
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