 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
 | Encyclopaedia - 1845 - 806 páginas
...those ancient and modern chirurgeons, but by my own practice. Witeman. Surgery, vol. ii. p. 1 1 1 . 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... | |
 | Hugh Swinton Legaré - 1846 - 652 páginas
...over the failing years of his mother: "Ah Mend ! may each domestic Wins be thine ! Be no intruding melancholy mine ! Me, let the tender office long engage To rock the cradle of declining age, With lenient aits extend a mother's breath, Make languor smile and soothe the bed of... | |
 | 1846 - 670 páginas
...have been in existence when the beautiful lines in which she is there mentioned were written : — " 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... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1847 - 524 páginas
...kings shall know less joy than I. O Friend ! may each domestic bliss be thine ; 406 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 - 1847 - 546 páginas
...devoted to the tenderest domestic duties, to which he has alluded in lines never to be forgotten : " 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... | |
 | Charles Walton Sanders, Joshua Chase Sanders - 1848 - 468 páginas
...o'er-spreading tone', The sounds that sighed—'- Farewell', farewell' 1" Are gone' — all gone' ! 5. Me let the tender office long engage', To rock the cradle of reposing age' ; With lenient arts' extend a moth'er's breath', Make languor smile', and smooth the... | |
 | Alexander Pope, William Charles Macready - 1849 - 646 páginas
...from kings shall 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, Make languor smile, and smooth the bed of... | |
 | Henry Bartlett Maglathlin - 1849 - 80 páginas
...happiness ! unlooked for joy ! Never let love despair ! Thy prize is mine ! 3. Love and Tenderness* Me let the tender office long engage, To rock the cradle of reposing age ; To what is plaintiveness suited ? With what is it accompanied'.' What is rule first?... | |
 | Henry Bartlett Maglathlin - 1850 - 88 páginas
...happiness ! unlooked for joy ! Never let love despair ! Thy prize is mine ! 3. Love and Tenderness.* Me let the tender office long engage, To rock the cradle of reposing age ; To what is phiintiveness suited ? With what is it accompanied ? What is rule first?... | |
 | Henry Bartlett Maglathlin - 1851 - 328 páginas
...nappiness ! unlocked for joy ! Never let love despair ! Thy prize is mine ! 3. Love and Tenderness* Me let the tender office long engage, To rock the cradle of reposing age ; To what is plaintiveness suited ? With what is it accompanied ? What is rule first?... | |
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