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...inadvertently 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 cradle of reposing age, With lenient arts extend a mother's breath. Make languor smile, and Amooth the bed of...

...inadvertently changed the word miking into aching, and thus lessened the finely graphic effect of the original. 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...

...of Pope's private character is his tender affection for his parents — his mother particularly. " Me let the tender office long engage, To rock the cradle of declining age; With lenient arts extend a mother's breath, Make languor smile and smooth the bed of...

...could not only write such verses as those, but live up to them, has at least some claim tc our respect. 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...

...could flee and cast anchor, and be secure from the storms which are ever raging on the sea of life. " 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...

...tittering on, and shoves you from the stage. POPE — Imitations of Horace. Bk. II. Ep. 2. L. 322. 19 well skilj'd to find or forge a fault; A turn for punning, reposing age; With lenient arts extend a mother's breath, Make languor smile, and smooth the bed of...

...from Kings shall know less joy than I. O Friend! may each domestic bliss be thine! Be no unpleasing ith the appetite — and the coarsest hunger might barter her consistently fo reposing Age, With lenient arts extend a Mother's breath, <10 Make Languor smile, and smooth the bed...

...as near as he could to a real rather than an artificial sentiment when he wrote of his old mother : Me let the tender office long engage, To rock the cradle of reposing age. Works of Pope. Pope's first important work, An Essay on Criticism (l7ll), is an echo...