 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 Alexander Pope: Satires, &c - Page 27by Alexander Pope - 1757Full view - About this book
 | Alexander Pope - 1836 - 502 lehte
...from kings shall know less joy than I. O friend ! may each domestic hliss he thine ! Be no unpleasing envy cursed, And the heat reposing age, With lenient arts extend a mother's hreath, Make languor smile, and smooth the hed of... | |
 | Robert Walsh - 1836 - 274 lehte
...— their " pensive and pathetic sweetness," — appertained of right to the sex which he reviled. " 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... | |
 | 1842 - 574 lehte
...omnes, Fraternsequc dabunt pignus amicitise.' Pope's charming lines arc thus pleasingly rendered : — ' Me let the tender office long engage To rock the cradle of expiring age ; With lenient art extend a mother's breath, Make languor smile, and smooth the bed of... | |
 | Leonard Woods, Charles D. Pigeon - 1838 - 692 lehte
...mind familiar with the elegant and the tender, but a heart "tremblingly alive" with sensibility. " Me let the tender office long engage, To rock the cradle of reposing age. With lenient acts extend a mother's breath. Make languor smile, and smooth the bed of... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1839 - 510 lehte
...from kings shall know less joy than I. О Friend ! may each domestic bliss be thine ! Bo no unpleaeuig ud science never taught to stray Far as the solar walk, or Milky Way ; Yet Him reposing age, With lenient arts extend a mother's breath, Make languor smile, and smooth the bed of... | |
 | 1839 - 66 lehte
...Pleas'd to the last, he crops the flow'ry food, And licks the hand uprais'd to shed his blood. Pope. Me, let the tender office long engage To rock the cradle of reposing age ; With lenient art extend a mother's breath, Make languor smile, and smooth the bed of... | |
 | Christian - 1841 - 998 lehte
...in pain and sickness; and do all we can to enliven and brighten the cloudy evening of their days. ' gs, and our gross imaginations in regard to the divine natu repostng age; Wtth lentent arts extend a mother's breath, Make languor smlle, and smooth the bed of... | |
 | Seven ages - 1842 - 154 lehte
...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 of reposing age, With lenient arts extend a mother's breath, Make languor smile, and smooth the bed of... | |
 | John Aikin - 1843 - 826 lehte
...from kings shall know less joy than I. O friend ' may each domestic bliss be thine ! Be no unpleasing reposing age, With lenient arts extend a mother's breath, Make languor smile, and smooth the bed of... | |
 | Samuel Maunder - 1844 - 544 lehte
...promote the happiness of his aged mother. His actions in this respect correspond with his verse : — " Me let the tender office long engage, To rock the cradle of declining age, Explore the thought, explain the asking eye, And keep awhile a parent from the sky."... | |
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