 | John Aikin - 1820 - 832 lehte
...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 - 1821 - 402 lehte
...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... | |
 | Papirius Cursor - 1821 - 40 lehte
...himself with the following — which may well be compared with any that filial piety ever dictated : — 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... | |
 | 1822 - 284 lehte
...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, Make languor smile, and smooth the bed of... | |
 | William Hazlitt - 1824 - 1062 lehte
...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, and led the fragrant hour reposing age, With lenient arts extend a mother's breath, Make languor smile, and smooth the bed of... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1824 - 494 lehte
...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, NOTES. Ver. 408. Me, let the tender office] These exquisite lines give us a very interesting... | |
 | Alexander Pope, William Roscoe - 1824 - 498 lehte
...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, NOTES. Vcr. 408. Me, let the tender office] These exquisite lines give us a very interesting... | |
 | Richard Alfred Davenport - 1824 - 406 lehte
...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, Make languor smile, and smooth the bed of... | |
 | Jacques Delille - 1824 - 474 lehte
...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, Make languor smile, and smooth the bed of... | |
 | Samuel Stennett - 1824 - 520 lehte
...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 of reposing age ; With lenient arts extend a mother's breath, Make languor smile, and smooth the bed of... | |
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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... 
