 | Alexander Pope - 1890 - 562 pages
...domestic bliss be thine ' Be no unpleasing melancholy mine: Ms, let the tender office long engage, To rock the cradle of reposing age, With lenient arts...breath, Make languor smile, and smooth the bed of death,1 Explore the thought, explain the asking eye, And keep awhile one parent from the sky ! On cares... | |
 | John Bell - English poetry - 1796 - 480 pages
...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 of Death, Explore the thought, explain the asking eye. And... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1804 - 190 pages
...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 of Death, Explore the thought, explain' the asking eye,... | |
 | Nathan Drake - English literature - 1805 - 424 pages
...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...asking eye, And keep awhile one parent from the sky ! Johnson, speaking of this amiable feature in the character of Pope, observes, that " his parents... | |
 | Nathan Drake - English essays - 1805 - 420 pages
...the tender office long engage, To rock the cradle of reposing age, With lenient arts extend a MotheVs breath, Make Languor smile, and smooth the bed of...asking eye, And keep awhile one parent from the sky ! Johnson, speaking of this amiable feature in the character of Pope, observes, that " his parents... | |
 | Joseph Warton - 1806 - 440 pages
...Richardson, desiring him to come to Twickenham, and take a sketch of his mother, just after she was With lenient arts extend a mother's breath, Make languor...asking eye, And keep awhile one parent from the sky!* These exquisite lines give us a very interesting picture of the exemplary filial piety of our author,... | |
 | Joseph Warton - 1806 - 440 pages
...mother, just after she was With lenient arts extend a mother's breath, Make languor smile, and smuoth the bed of death ; Explore the thought, explain the...asking eye, And keep awhile one parent from the sky !* These exquisite lines give us a very interesting picture of the exemplary filial piety of our author,... | |
 | John Bell - 1807 - 562 pages
...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 Mike Languor smile, and smooth the bed of Death, Explore the thought, explain the asking eye, And... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1807 - 288 pages
...domestic bliss he thine ! 406 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 hed of death, Explore the thought, explain the asking eye, And... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1807 - 474 pages
...domestic hliss he 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 hreath, Make languor smile, and smoothe the hed of death ; Explore the thought, explain the asking... | |
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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... 
