 | Ethics - 1822 - 150 pages
...his mother, in the following most beautiful lines : " Me let the tender office long engage, To rook the cradle of reposing age, With lenient arts extend...languor smile, and smooth the bed of death ; Explore tht thought, eitplain the n.itiny tye, And keep awhile one parent from the skj. of their children is... | |
 | Alexander Pope, William Roscoe - English literature - 1824 - 498 pages
...description of that filial piety, in the exercise of which he makes his own happiness to consist: " Me, let the tender office long engage To rock the...asking eye, And keep a while one parent from the sky!" And now this incomparable poem, which holds so much of the DRAMA, and opens with all the disorder and... | |
 | Samuel Stennett - Baptists - 1824 - 520 pages
...anxiety, its approach they will dread, and use every means in their power to protract it to the utmost a Me let the tender office long engage To rock the cradle...asking eye, And keep a while one parent from the sky ! POPE. VOL. II. K length. And when it does arrive, they will meet it with tears of genuine sorrow... | |
 | Alexander Pope, William Roscoe - English literature - 1824 - 498 pages
...description of that filial piety, in the exercise of which he makes his own happiness to consist : " Me, let the tender office long engage To rock the...asking eye, And keep a while one parent from the sky !" And now this incomparable poem, which holds so much of the DRAMA, and opens with all the disorder... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1824 - 494 pages
...description of that filial piety, in the exercise of which he makes his own happiness to consist : " Me, let the tender office long engage To rock the...asking eye, And keep a while one parent from the sky !" And now this incomparable poem, which holds so much of the DRAMA, and opens with all the disorder... | |
 | William Hazlitt - English poetry - 1824 - 1062 pages
...from kings shall know less joy than I. O friend ! may each domestic bliss be thine ! Be no unpleaeing the plains with flowers, Breath'd his soft gales,...her mov'd, a duteous band! Each bore a crook all ru awhile one parent from the sky ! On cares like these if length of days attend, May Heaven, to Ыeи... | |
 | Jacques Delille - English poetry - 1824 - 474 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,...Explore the thought, explain the asking eye, And keep awhile one parent from the sky ! On cares like these if length of days attend, May Heaven, to bless... | |
 | Alexander Pope, William Roscoe - English literature - 1824 - 694 pages
...devoted to the tenderest domestic duties, to which he has alluded in lines never to be forgotten : i" Me let the tender office long engage, To rock the...Explore the thought, explain the asking eye, And keep at least one parent from the sky." Prol. to the Satires. Nor can such a remark justly be applied to... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1824 - 692 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...Explore the thought, explain the asking eye, And keep at least one parent from the sky." Prol. to the Satires. Nor can such a remark justly be applied to... | |
 | Sholto Percy, Reuben Percy - London (England) - 1824 - 392 pages
...son, our present sovereign, who had the gratifying but painful task, " To rock the cradle of declining age ; With lenient arts extend a mother's breath,...the bed of death ; Explore the thought, explain the aching eye, And keep awhile one parent from the sky." HAMPTON COURT. That one prelate should build... | |
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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 awhile one parent from the sky... 
