 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 awhile one parent from the sky...  The Works of Alexander Pope - Página 47de Alexander Pope - 1822Vista completa - Acerca de este libro
 | 1839 - 66 páginas
...Pleas'd to the last, he crops the flow'ry food, And licks the hand uprais'd to shed his blood. Pope. Me, let the tender office long engage To rock the cradle of reposing age ; With lenient art extend a mother's breath, Make languor smile, and smooth the bed of death, Explore the thought,... | |
 | John Aikin - 1841 - 840 páginas
...groan. О grant me thus to live, and thus to die! Who sprung from kings shall know less joy than I. О 4 oflice long engage, To rock the cradle of reposing age, With lenient arts extend a mother's breath,... | |
 | Christian - 1841 - 998 páginas
...in pain and sickness; and do all we can to enliven and brighten the cloudy evening of their days. ' gs, and our gross imaginations in regard to the divine natu repostng age; Wtth lentent arts extend a mother's breath, Make languor smlle, and smooth the bed of... | |
 | Seven ages - 1842 - 154 páginas
...perhaps, there can be found no filial tribute which has more feeling and poetry than the lines of Pope : Me let the tender office long engage To rock the cradle...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... | |
 | John Aikin - 1843 - 826 páginas
...groan. O grant me thus to live, and thus to die ! Who sprung from kings shall know less joy than I. Make languor smile, and smooth the bed of death, Explore the thought, explain the asking eye, And keep... | |
 | 1844 - 332 páginas
...heaven is worth them all. T. MOORE, DUTY TO AGED PARENTS. ME let the tender office long engage, Tlf 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... | |
 | Samuel Maunder - 1844 - 544 páginas
...promote the happiness of his aged mother. His actions in this respect correspond with his verse : — " Me let the tender office long engage, To rock the cradle of declining age, Explore the thought, explain the asking eye, And keep awhile a parent from the sky."... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1963 - 884 páginas
...and thus to die! Who sprung from Kings shall know less joy than I. 405 O Friend ! may each Domestick Bliss be thine ! Be no unpleasing Melancholy mine...410 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 ! On Cares like... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray IV, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle) - 1842 - 578 páginas
...omnes, Fraternaeque dabunt pignus amicitise.' Pope's charming lines are thus pleasingly rendered :1 Me let the tender office long engage To rock the cradle of expiring age ; With lenient art extend a mother's breath, Make languor smile, and smooth the bed of... | |
 | Valerie Rumbold - 1989 - 342 páginas
...Even the famous lines on Edith's last illness are not so much about her as about her son watching her: Me, let the tender Office long engage To rock the...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... | |
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