 | Seven ages - 1842 - 154 pages
...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 - English poetry - 1843 - 826 pages
...groan. O grant me thus to live, and thus to die ! Who sprung from kings shall know less joy than I. O Make languor smile, and smooth the bed of death, Explore the thought, explain the asking eye, And keep... | |
 | Encyclopaedia - 1845 - 806 pages
...those ancient and modern chirurgeons, but by my own practice. Witeman. Surgery, vol. ii. p. 1 1 1 . 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. Pope. Prologue to the Salirei, r. 412. But we allow... | |
 | C. P. Bronson - Anatomy - 1845 - 330 pages
...rock the mulle of reposing age ; With lenient aris— «Mend л mother's breath, Make languor emile, and smooth the bed of death ; Explore the thought,...asking eye, And keep, a while, one parent from the thy 1 Proverbs. 1. Neither great poverty, nor great riches will bear reason. 4. Wine— is я turncoat... | |
 | Great Britain - 1846 - 670 pages
...have been in existence when the beautiful lines in which she is there mentioned were written : — " Me let the tender office long engage To rock the cradle...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... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1847 - 524 pages
...Who sprung from kings shall know less joy than I. O Friend ! may each domestic bliss be thine ; 406 Be no unpleasing melancholy mine. Me, let the tender...410 Make languor smile, and smooth the bed of death, Ver. 408. Me, let the tender office] These exquisite lines give us a very interesting picture of the... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1847 - 546 pages
...devoted to the tenderest domestic duties, to which he has alluded in lines never to be forgotten : " Me let the tender office long engage, To rock the...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... | |
 | Charles Walton Sanders, Joshua Chase Sanders - Readers - 1848 - 468 pages
...o'er-spreading tone', The sounds that sighed—'- Farewell', farewell' 1" Are gone' — all gone' ! 5. Me let the tender office long engage', To rock the...age' ; With lenient arts' extend a moth'er's breath', Make languor smile', and smooth the bed of death' ; Explore the thought', explain the asking eye',... | |
 | Alexander Pope, William Charles Macready - 1849 - 646 pages
...groan. O grant me, thus to live, and thus to die ! Who sprung from kings shall know less joy than I. O Friend ! may each domestic bliss be thine ! Be no...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 - English poetry - 1851 - 348 pages
...and improved, which he had written in 1731, by the bed-side of his mother;1 " O friend ! may «ach domestic bliss be thine ; Be no unpleasing melancholy...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... | |
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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... 
