 | Alexander Pope - 1825 - 536 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... | |
 | British anthology - 1825 - 460 lehte
...from kings shall know less joy than I. () 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 smoothe the bed of... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1828 - 264 lehte
...from kings shall know less joy than I. 0 friend ! may each domestic bliss be thine ! Be no unplcasing 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... | |
 | Ethics - 1828 - 234 lehte
...is when they labour under infirmities of body or mind, and in the time of their extreme old age. " Me let the tender office long engage To rock the cradle of declining age, With lenient arts extend a parent's breath, Make langour smile, and smooth the bed of... | |
 | 1828 - 814 lehte
...will ne'er be entombed with the dead While life holds its seat in my heart. M'Comb. DUTY TO PARENTS. 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... | |
 | Jonathan Mayhew Wainwright - 1829 - 132 lehte
...but blessed with the presence of another, recur to my memory, and I cannot but give them utterance. 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... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1830 - 500 lehte
...from kings shall know less joy than I. 0 friend ! may each domestic bliss be thine ! Be DO unpleasmg the nations of the field and wood To shun their poison, and to choose their reposing age, With lenient arts extend a mother's breath, Make languor smile, and smooth the bed of... | |
 | sir Samuel Egerton Brydges (bart.) - 1832 - 306 lehte
...tenderness for his aged mother. •• 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 smoothe the bed... | |
 | John Kenyon - 1833 - 176 lehte
...of Pope, from the prologue to the Satires, although 10 well known, can hardly be too often quoted. " 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 Griswold Goodrich - 1834 - 432 lehte
...parents, is when they labor under infirmities of body or mind, and in the time of extreme old age. " Me let the tender office long engage To rock the cradle of declining age, With lenient arts extend a parent'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... 
