 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, Esq: With Notes and Illustrations by Himself ... - Stran 10avtor: Alexander Pope, William Roscoe - 1824Celotni ogled - O knjigi
 | Samuel Griswold Goodrich - 1834 - 440 strani
...parents, is when they labor under infirmities of body or mind, and in the time of extreme old age. " Me let the tender office long engage To rock the cradle of declining age, With lenient arts extend a parent's breath, Make languor smile, and smooth the bed of... | |
 | Samuel Griswold Goodrich - 1834 - 432 strani
...parents, is when they labor under infirmities of body or mind, and in the time of extreme old age. " Me let the tender office long engage To rock the cradle of declining age, With lenient arts extend a parent's breath, Make languor smile, and smooth the bed of... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1835 - 382 strani
...know less joy than I. 0 friend ! may each domestic bliss be thine ! Be no unpleasing melancholy mine : Me, let the tender office long engage To rock the...breath, Make languor smile, and smooth the bed of death ; of William Turner, Esq. of York : she had three brothers, one of whom was killed, another died in... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1835 - 378 strani
...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...reposing age, With lenient arts extend a mother's breath, 410 Make languor smile, and smoothe the bed of death, Explore the thought, explain the asking eye,... | |
 | Robert Walsh - 1836 - 274 strani
...— their " pensive and pathetic sweetness," — appertained of right to the sex which he reviled. " Me, let the tender office long engage, To rock the...Explore the thought, explain the asking eye, And keep awhile one parent from the sky !" Traverse the vast cemetery of Pere La Chaise at Paris, where flowers... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1836 - 502 strani
...know less joy than I. O friend ! may each domestic hliss he thine ! Be no unpleasing melancholy mine ; he heat hreath, Make languor smile, and smooth the hed of death ; Eiplbre the thought, explain the asking eye,... | |
 | Leonard Woods, Charles D. Pigeon - 1838 - 708 strani
...sensibility. " Me let the tender office long engage, To rock the cradle of reposing age. With lenient acts extend a mother's breath, Make languor smile, and...Explore the thought, explain the asking eye, And keep awhile one parent from the sky." Johnson's remarks upon Pope's letters, possess an originality, and... | |
 | 1883 - 602 strani
...Henry, Lord Brougham.' Written by himself. VoL ip 12. ' Me let the tender office long engage To rock tho cradle of reposing age ; With lenient arts extend...Explore the thought, explain the asking eye, And keep a while one parent from the sky.' Pope's deformity came from his father ; and, as regards personal... | |
 | 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 strani
...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 strani
...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...Explore the Thought, explain the asking Eye, And keep a while one Parent from the Sky! (line 408) The first extant version of this passage, described in... | |
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