 | Philip Doddridge - 1831 - 580 стор.
...the service of my neighbour, in my study, and in the offices of filial piety," " With lenient arts t' extend a mother's breath, Make languor smile, and...asking eye, And keep awhile one parent from the sky." Bi*hnp IVarburton's Work*, vol. vi. p. 12, 13. hardened more sinners than any other tenet broached... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1831 - 384 стор.
...1731, by the bed-side of his mother;1 " O friend ! may each domestic bliss be thine ; Be no unpleasing melancholy mine ! Me, let the tender office long engage,...extend a mother's breath, Make languor smile, and smoothe the bed of death, Explore the thought, explain the asking eye, And keep awhile one parent from... | |
 | sir Samuel Egerton Brydges (bart.) - 1832 - 306 стор.
...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,...extend a mother's breath, Make languor smile, and smoothe the bed of death ; Explore the thought, explain the asking eye, And ke«p awhile one parent... | |
 | William Phelan - 1832 - 454 стор.
...realized : . . • O friend, may each domestic bliss be thine : Be no unpleasing melancholy mine : Mr, let the tender office long engage, To rock the cradle of reposing age ; Explore the thought, explain the asking eye, And keep awhile BOTH PARENTS from the sky ! ' From 1823.,... | |
 | 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...asking eye, And keep awhile one parent from the sky." Note 4, page 18. When the last lingering friend hath bade farewell. See Pope's Epistle to Robert, Earl... | |
 | John Evans - 1834 - 306 стор.
...Twickenham ; yet his treatment of an aged mother was exemplary, even to admiration — With lenient arts t' extend a mother's breath, Make languor smile, and...asking eye, And keep awhile ONE PARENT from the sky ! In the discharge of this important duty towards the aged, the fair sex have more especially distinguished... | |
 | 1883 - 602 стор.
...Henry, Lord Brougham.' Written by himself. VoL ip 12. ' Me let the tender office long engage To rock tho cradle of reposing age ; With lenient arts extend...Explore the thought, explain the asking eye, And keep a while one parent from the sky.' Pope's deformity came from his father ; and, as regards personal... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray IV, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle) - 1842 - 578 стор.
...omnes, Fraternaeque dabunt pignus amicitise.' Pope's charming lines are thus pleasingly rendered :1 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... | |
 | Valerie Rumbold - 1989 - 342 стор.
...Even the famous lines on Edith's last illness are not so much about her as about her son watching her: Me, let the tender Office long engage To rock the...Explore the Thought, explain the asking Eye, And keep a while one Parent from the Sky! (line 408) The first extant version of this passage, described in... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1998 - 260 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...reposing age, With lenient arts extend a mother's breath, 410 Make languor smile, and smooth the bed of death, Explore the thought, explain the asking eye, And... | |
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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 awhile one parent from the sky... 
