 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...  Encyclopædia metropolitana; or, Universal dictionary of knowledge, ed. by E ... - Сторінка 372автори: Encyclopaedia - 1845Повний перегляд - Докладніше про цю книгу
 | John Aikin - 1843 - 826 стор.
...less joy than I. O friend ' may each domestic bliss be thine ! Be no unpleasing melancholy mine • Explore the thought, explain the asking eye, And keep awhile one parent from the sky ! On cares like... | |
 | 1844 - 332 стор.
...heaven is worth them all. T. MOORE, DUTY TO AGED PARENTS. ME let the tender office long engage, Tlf rock the cradle of reposing age; With lenient arts...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! POPE. LITERARY... | |
 | Samuel Maunder - 1844 - 544 стор.
...promote the happiness of his aged mother. His actions in this respect correspond with his verse : — " Me let the tender office long engage, To rock the cradle of declining age, Explore the thought, explain the asking eye, And keep awhile a parent from the sky."... | |
 | C. P. Bronson - 1845 - 334 стор.
...known a better rfay. The harji, his sole remaining joy, Wai carried—by an or/iAan boy." Me—let the tender office long engage. To rock the cradle of reposing age; With lenient arlt—extend a metier'i breath. Make languor mile, and smooth the bed of death; Explore the thougttt,... | |
 | C. P. Bronson - 1845 - 396 стор.
...sole remaining joy, Wai carried — by an orphan boy." tie- -'et the tender office lang engage, Го rock the cradle of reposing age ; With lenient arts — extend a mother's brealh. Make languor mile, and smooth the bed of death i Explore the thought, explain the asking eye,... | |
 | 1846 - 670 стор.
...have been in existence when the beautiful lines in which she is there mentioned were written : — " Me let the tender office long engage To rock the cradle...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." From his father... | |
 | Hugh Swinton Legaré - 1846 - 652 стор.
...years of his mother: "Ah Mend ! may each domestic Wins be thine ! Be no intruding melancholy mine ! Me, let the tender office long engage To rock the cradle of declining age, With lenient aits extend a mother's breath, Make languor smile and soothe the bed of... | |
 | 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...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.' Pope's deformity... | |
 | 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.
...Cupidinis 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...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! (line 408) The... | |
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