 | Alexander Pope - 1830 - 500 pages
...from kings shall know less joy than I. 0 friend ! may each domestic bliss be thine ! Be DO unpleasmg the nations of the field and wood To shun their poison, and to choose their Make languor smile, and smooth the bed of death ; Explore the thought, explain the asking eye. And... | |
 | Alexander Pope - English poetry - 1831 - 384 pages
...of verses, altered and improved, which he had written in 1731, by the bed-side of his mother;1 " O friend ! may each domestic bliss be thine ; Be no...reposing age, With lenient arts extend a mother's breath, Make languor smile, and smoothe the bed of death, Explore the thought, explain the asking eye, And... | |
 | sir Samuel Egerton Brydges (bart.) - 1832 - 306 pages
...drop by drop, and pants his life away." Again, of his filial tenderness for his aged mother. •• O friend! may each domestic bliss be thine; Be no unpleasing...age ; With lenient arts extend a mother's breath, Make languor smile, and smoothe the bed of death ; Explore the thought, explain the asking eye, And... | |
 | John Kenyon - English poetry - 1833 - 176 pages
...of Pope, from the prologue to the Satires, although 10 well known, can hardly be too often quoted. " 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 keep... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1835 - 378 pages
...O, grant me thus to live, and thus to die ! 404 Who sprung from kings shall know less joy than I. O friend, may each domestic bliss be thine ; Be no unpleasing...extend a mother's breath, 410 Make languor smile, and smoothe the bed of death, Explore the thought, explain the asking eye, And keep awhile one parent from... | |
 | Alexander Pope - English poetry - 1835 - 382 pages
...remained after the sequestrations and forfeitures of her family." ' Pope's father was a non-juror. Explore the thought, explain the asking eye, And keep...On cares like these if length of days attend, May Heaven, to bless those days, preserve my friend ! Preserve him social, cheerful, and serene, And just... | |
 | Alexander Pope - English poetry - 1836 - 502 pages
...thus to die ! Who sprung from kings shall know less joy than I. O friend ! may each domestic hliss he ce living virtue is with envy cursed, And the heat hreath, Make languor smile, and smooth the hed of death ; Eiplbre the thought, explain the asking eye,... | |
 | Robert Walsh - Conduct of life - 1836 - 274 pages
...— their " pensive and pathetic sweetness," — appertained of right to the sex which he reviled. " 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... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1839 - 510 pages
...from kings shall know less joy than I. О Friend ! may each domestic bliss be thine ! Bo no unpleaeuig ud science never taught to stray Far as the solar walk, or Milky Way ; Yet Himple nature tu Make languor smile, and smooth the bed of death, Explore the thought, explain the asking eye, And keep... | |
 | Fitz-Greene Halleck - English poetry - 1840 - 372 pages
...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...On cares like these, if length of days attend, May Heaven, to bless those days, preserve my friend ; Preserve him social, cheerful, and serene, And just... | |
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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 the thought, explain the asking eye, And... 
