 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 the English Poets: Pope - Page 159by Samuel Johnson - 1779Full view - About this book
 | 1809 - 402 pages
...from Kings shall know less joy than 1. O friend ! nriy each domestic bliss be thine 5 Be no nnplensiug 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... | |
 | British poets - English poetry - 1809 - 526 pages
...from kings shall know less joy than I. O friend! may each domestic bliss be thine f 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 langour smile, and smoothe the bed of... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1812 - 348 pages
...from kings shall 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, With lenient arts extend a mother's breath, 410 Make languor smile, and smooth the bed... | |
 | Early English newspapers - 1813 - 778 pages
...most faithfully and most zealously in tending her honoured and helpless distant relatives ; saying, " Me let the tender office long engage, To rock the cradle of declining age !" POPE. .And this, too, in the prime anrt viguur of Hie, although, she herself wanted... | |
 | Frank Elizabeth - 1814 - 400 pages
...his poetical works, he makes very affectionate mention of her, particularly in the following lines. " 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... | |
 | English letters - 1816 - 358 pages
...of his poetical works, he makes very affectionate menof her, particularly in the following lines. " 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... | |
 | John Evans - 1817 - 610 pages
...Arbuthnot, — 120 POPE'S DISSOLUTION. O Friend ! may each domestic bliss be thine, . Be no uupleasing 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... | |
 | Sir Richard Phillips - Arts - 1817 - 348 pages
...lines :— O friend | may each domestic bliss be thine ; , Be no unpleasing melancholy | mine. Or, Me | let the tender office long engage, To rock the cradle | of declining age. Or, O cruel, beauteous, [ ever lovely, | tell Is it in heaven | a crime to love too... | |
 | John Aikin - English poetry - 1820 - 832 pages
...from kings shall know less joy than I. O friend ! may each domestic bliss be thine ! Be no unpleasing , In blissful solitude ; he then survey'd Hell and the gulf between, and Satan reposing age, With lenient arts extend a mother's breath, Make languor sinile, and smooth the bed of... | |
 | John Aikin - English poetry - 1821 - 402 pages
...from kings shall know less joy than 1. 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, With lenient arts extend a mother's breath, Make languor smile, and smooth the bed of... | |
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