 | Alexander Pope - 1890 - 562 pages
...mine: Ms, 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,1 Explore the thought, explain the asking eye, And keep awhile one parent from the sky ! On cares... | |
 | John Bell - 1796 - 480 pages
...office long engage To rock the cradle of reposing age, With lenient arts extend a mother's breath, 410 Make Languor smile, and smooth the bed of Death, Explore...asking eye. And keep awhile one parent from the sky ! On cares like these, if length of days attend, May Heav'n, to bless those days, preserve my friend!... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1804 - 190 pages
...office long engage To rock the cradle of 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 keep a while one parent from the sky ! On cares like these, if length of days attend, May Heav'n, to bless... | |
 | Nathan Drake - 1805 - 424 pages
...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...asking eye, And keep awhile one parent from the sky ! Johnson, speaking of this amiable feature in the character of Pope, observes, that " his parents... | |
 | Nathan Drake - 1805 - 420 pages
...the tender office long engage, To rock the cradle of reposing age, With lenient arts extend a MotheVs breath, Make Languor smile, and smooth the bed of...asking eye, And keep awhile one parent from the sky ! Johnson, speaking of this amiable feature in the character of Pope, observes, that " his parents... | |
 | Joseph Warton - 1806 - 440 pages
...desiring him to come to Twickenham, and take a sketch of his mother, just after she was With lenient arts extend a mother's breath, Make languor smile, and...asking eye, And keep awhile one parent from the sky!* These exquisite lines give us a very interesting picture of the exemplary filial piety of our author,... | |
 | Joseph Warton - 1806 - 440 pages
...mother, just after she was With lenient arts extend a mother's breath, Make languor smile, and smuoth the bed of death ; Explore the thought, explain the...asking eye, And keep awhile one parent from the sky !* These exquisite lines give us a very interesting picture of the exemplary filial piety of our author,... | |
 | John Bell - 1807 - 562 pages
...long engage To rock the cradle of reposing age, With lenient arts extend a mother's breath, 410 Mike Languor smile, and smooth the bed of Death, Explore...asking eye, And keep awhile one parent from the sky ! On cares like these, if length of days attend, MayHeav'n, to bless those days, preserve my friendT... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1807 - 288 pages
...reposing age, With lenient arts extend a mother's breath, 410 Make languor smile, and smooth the hed of death, Explore the thought, explain the asking eye, And keep awhile one parent from the sky ! On cares like these, if length of days attend, May Heav'n, to bless those days, preserve my friend,... | |
 | Alexander Pope, Thomas Park - 1808 - 388 pages
...melancholy mine : Me, let the tender office long engageTo rock the cradle of reposing age, With lenient arts extend a mother's breath, Make languor smile, and...asking eye, And keep awhile one parent from the sky ! On cares like these, if length, of days attend, May Heaven to bless those days, preserve my friend!... | |
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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... 
