 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 the British Poets - Сторінка 121автори: Robert Anderson - 1795 - 1157 стор.Повний перегляд - Докладніше про цю книгу
 | John Kenyon - 1833 - 176 стор.
...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 стор.
...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... | |
 | Samuel Griswold Goodrich - 1834 - 440 стор.
...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... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1835 - 378 стор.
...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, 410 Make languor smile, and smoothe the bed... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1836 - 502 стор.
...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 стор.
...— 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... | |
 | Leonard Woods, Charles D. Pigeon - 1838 - 692 стор.
...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... | |
 | 1842 - 574 стор.
...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... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1839 - 510 стор.
...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 стор.
...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... | |
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