 | Joseph Addison - 1854 - 584 pages
...not only write such verses as these, but live-Tip to them, has at least some claim to our respect. 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,... | |
 | Henry Reed - English literature - 1855 - 404 pages
...Pope's heart spoke in the lines alluding to his mother, beautiful for their truth of feeling : " Oh, friend, may each domestic bliss be thine! Be no unpleasing...the tender office long engage To rock the cradle of declining age ; With lenient arts extend a mother's breath — Make languor smile, and smooth the bed... | |
 | Henry Reed - 1855 - 428 pages
...Pope's heart spoke in the lines alluding to his mother, beautiful. for their truth of feeling: " Oh, friend, may each domestic bliss be thine! Be no unpleasing...the tender office long engage To rock the cradle of declining age ; With lenient arts extend a mother's breath — Make languor smile, and smooth the bed... | |
 | David Lester Richardson - Floriculture - 1855 - 296 pages
...affections. There are probably few readers of English poetry who have not the following lines by heart. Me, let the tender office long engage To rock the...age ; With lenient arts extend a mother's breath, Make langour smile, and smooth the bed of death ; Explore the thought, explain the asking eye, And... | |
 | William Hague - Home - 1855 - 276 pages
...paralyzed by vice or crime will unite in the wish so well expressed in Pope's celebrated strain: " Me let the tender office long engage To rock the cradle...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... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1856 - 512 pages
...groan. O grant me thus to live, and thus to die ! Who sprung from kings shall know less joy than I. Oh, 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, George Gilfillan - 1856 - 356 pages
...groan. 0 grant me thus to live, and thus to die! Who sprung from kings shall know less joy than I. 0 friend ! may each domestic bliss be thine ! Be no...office long engage, To rock the cradle of reposing age, 1 ' Noble wife : ' alluding to the fate of Dryden and Addison. — * ' An oath : ' Pope's father wag... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1856 - 352 pages
...groan. 0 grant me thus to live, and thus to die ! Who sprung from kings shall know less joy than I. 0 friend ! may each domestic bliss be thine ! Be no...office long engage, To rock the cradle of reposing age, 1 ' Noble wife : ' alluding to the fate of Dryden and Addison. — * ' An oath : ' Pope's father was... | |
 | Chauncey Allen Goodrich - 1856 - 962 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 ,...asking eye, And keep a while one parent from the sky ! WARREN HASTINGS ON THE BEGUM CHARGE. 433 if he had not been so thoroughly acquainted with the true... | |
 | Richard Henry Lee - 1856 - 436 pages
...will occur, as aptly describing a reality which the poet never beheld nor even imagined more perfect. "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 keep... | |
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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... 
