 | Alexander Pope - 1822 - 452 strani
...Caversham, Esquire.) 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 smooth the bed of Death, NOTES. Ver. 408. Me, let the tender office] These... | |
 | 1823 - 714 strani
...teach me THY. and in those of the latter, something that reminds me of the filial piety of Pope : " ME let the tender office long engage, To rock the...cradle of reposing age ; With lenient arts extend a FATHER'S breath, Make languor smile, and smooth the bed of death." Yours, &c. CAPRICORNUS. Ancient... | |
 | Jacques Delille - 1824 - 474 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...asking eye, And keep awhile one parent from the sky ! On cares like these if length of days attend, May Heaven, to bless those days, preserve my friend... | |
 | William Hazlitt - 1824 - 1062 strani
...know less joy than I. O friend ! may each domestic bliss be thine ! Be no unpleaeing melancholy mine: lowers, Breath'd his soft gales, and led the fragrant...mov'd, a duteous band! Each bore a crook all rural ! On cares like these if length of days attend, May Heaven, to Ыeи the« days, preserve my friend,... | |
 | Richard Alfred Davenport - 1824 - 406 strani
...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...Explore the thought, explain the asking eye, And keep a while one parent from the sky ! On cares like these, if length of days attend, May Heaven, to bless... | |
 | Samuel Stennett - 1824 - 520 strani
...anxiety, its approach they will dread, and use every means in their power to protract it to the utmost a Me let the tender office long engage To rock the cradle...Explore the thought, explain the asking eye, And keep a while one parent from the sky ! POPE. VOL. II. K length. And when it does arrive, they will meet... | |
 | Sholto Percy, Reuben Percy - 1824 - 392 strani
...son, our present sovereign, who had the gratifying but painful task, " To rock the cradle of declining age ; With lenient arts extend a mother's breath,...the bed of death ; Explore the thought, explain the aching eye, And keep awhile one parent from the sky." HAMPTON COURT. That one prelate should build... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1824 - 494 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 cradle of reposing age, NOTES. Ver. 408. Me, let the tender office] These exquisite lines give us a very interesting picture... | |
 | Thomas Bowdler - 1824 - 342 strani
...— " Me let the pleasing office long engage To rock the cradle of declining dge; With lenient hand extend a mother's breath, Make languor smile, and smooth the bed of death; Explore each thought, explain the asking eye, And keep awhile one parent from the sky." Mr. Bowdler's principles... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1824 - 498 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 cradle of reposing age, Vcr. 408. Me, let the tender office] These exquisite lines give us a very interesting picture of the... | |
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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 death, Explore... 
