 | Samuel Johnson - 1779
...groan. O grant me thus to live, and thus to die ! Who fprung from Kings mall know lefs joy than I. O Friend ! may each domeftic blifs be thine ! Be no...repofing Age, With lenient arts extend a Mother's breath, 410 Make Languor finile, and finooth the bed of Death, Explore VARIATION. After ver. 405. in the MS.... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1779
...groan. O grant me thus to live, and thus to die ! Who fprung from Kings mall know lefs joy than I. O Friend ! may each domeftic blifs be thine ! Be no...the tender office long engage, To rock the cradle of repofmg Age, With lenient arts extend a Mother's breath, 410 Make Languor fmile, and fraooth the bed... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1779
...from Kings mall know lefs joy than I. O Friend ! may each domeftic blifs be thine ! Be no unpleafmg Melancholy mine *) Me, let the tender office long...repofing Age, With lenient arts extend a Mother's breath, 410 Make Languor fmile, and fmooth the bed of Death, Explore VARIATION. After ver. 405. in the MS.... | |
 | Joseph Warton - 1782
...me femble que la Perruque eft alTes heureuiement frondee dans ces quatres vers. 28. O friend 1 28. O friend ! may each domeftic blifs be thine ! Be no...the tender office long engage, To rock the cradle of repoflng age * j With lenient arts extend a mother's breath, Make languor fmile, and fmooth the bed... | |
 | Elizabeth Griffith - 1782 - 124 стор.
...affectionate feelings, and awaken that almoft divine enthufiafm which infpired Pope's filial prayer : , 9 " Me let the tender office long engage, " To rock the cradle of declining Age ; «•" Explore the thought, explain the alking eye, " And keep awhile a parent from... | |
 | Christian Felix Weisse - 1785
...aufgemuntert »urbe, поф einige anbew auf Tírt nad)¿uaí)men, unb nur fein îob un« U 3 íerbrad) Me let the tender office long engage, To rock the cradle of repofing agej With lenient arts extend a mother's breath, Make languor fmi le, and fmooth the bed of death j... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1787
...thus to die ! 404 Who fprung from Kings mall know lefs joy than I. O Friend ! may each domeftic blifa be thine! Be no unpleafing Melancholy mine : Me, let...repofing Age, With lenient arts extend a Mother's breath, 413 Make Languor fmilc, and fmooth the bed of Death, Explore the thought, explain the afldng eye, And... | |
 | Johann Joachim Eschenaburg - 1788
...groan О grant me, thus to live, and thus to die! Who fprung from kings fhall know lels joy than I, O! friend, may each domeftic blifs be thine! Be no unpleafing...Me, let the tender office long engage, To rock the crodle of repofing age, With lenient arts extend a mother's breath, Make Languor fmile, and fmooth... | |
 | English poets - 1790
...and thus to die ! Who fprung from Kings mall know lefs joy than I. O Friend ! may each domeftic bHfs be thine ! Be no unpleafing Melancholy mine : Me,...repofing Age, With lenient arts extend a Mother's breath, 410 Make Languor fmile, and fmooth the bed of Death, VAXIATION. After ver. 405, in the MS. And of myfelf,... | |
 | Vicesimus Knox - 1791
...Whofprungfromkingsflinll knowlcfs joy than I O friend ! may each dorm-flic hlifs be thine i Be no unplcafing melancholy mine : Me, let the tender office long engage, To rock the cradle of rcpofmg age ; . P 4 Wit»» -EL-ErG AN T • B XT* ACTS,' With lenient arts extend a mother's breath,... | |
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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... 
