...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...asking eye, And keep awhile one parent from the sky ! AI Johnson, speaking of this amiable feature in the character of Pope, observes, that " his parents...

...mention of tier, pai'ticularlv in the following lines. " Me, let the tender office long engage, <I"o rock the cradle of reposing age; With lenient arts...eye, ' . • .And keep awhile one parent from the sky !" "The filial piety of Pope," says Dr. Johnson in the life of that great poet, " was in the highest...

...affectionate mention of her, particularly in the following lines. " Me, let the tender office long engage, To rock the cradle of reposing age; With lenient arts...languor smile, and smooth the bed of death," * Explore (he thought, explain the asking eye, ^ '• ^ And keep awhile one parent from the sky !" i ;. j. "...

...it's sweetness ; Then cast it, like a loathsome weed, away. Me let the tender offise long engage, To rock the cradle of reposing age ; With lenient arts...asking eye, And keep awhile one parent from the sky. Tir'd Nature's sweet restorer, halmy Sleep ! He, like the world, his ready visit pays Where Fortune...

...domestic bliss be thine, . Be no uupleasing melancholy mine ! Me let the tender office long engage To rock the cradle of reposing age, With lenient arts...asking eye, And keep awhile one Parent from the sky ! There is a letter written to Richardson, the painter, desiring him to come to Twickenham to take...

...the service of my neighbour, in my study, and in the office! ol filial piety. With lenient arts t' extend a Mother's breath, Make languor smile, and...asking eye, And keep awhile one parent from the sky. Up. fTarburton's Workj, 4to, vol. VI. p. 12. TS "DlA* " DEAR SIR, June 15, 1750. " Your favour of the...

...filial guardian were blessed for three years longer in their pious aim, — " T' explore the wish — explain the asking eye, And keep awhile one parent from the sky." Then the full of days was summoned to depart, and I — yes — / remember well the last scene of her...

...of declining age; With lenient arts extend a mother's hreath, Make languor smile and smooth the hed of death: Explore the thought, explain the asking eye, And keep awhile one parent from the sky!' never practised with that singleness of devotion which can spring only from having the ohject of its...

...of repusing age, With lenient arts extend a muther's hreath, Make languor sunle, and smouth the hed of death ; Explore the thought, explain the asking eye, And keep awhile one parent from the sky ! On rare* like these if length of days attend. May Heaven, to hleas thuse days, preserve my friend ! Preserve...

...domestic bliss be thine ! Be no unpleasing melancholy mine : Me, let the tender office long engage, To between, and Satan there Coasting the wall of Heaven on this s sinile, and smooth the bed of death, Explore the thought, explain the asking eye, And^eep awhile one...