 | Samuel Stennett - 1824 - 520 pages
...anxiety, its approach they will dread, and use every means in their power to protract it to the utmost a Me let the tender office long engage To rock the cradle...Explore the thought, explain the asking eye, And keep a while one parent from the sky ! POPE. VOL. II. K length. And when it does arrive, they will meet... | |
 | Sholto Percy, Reuben Percy - 1824 - 392 pages
...son, our present sovereign, who had the gratifying but painful task, " To rock the cradle of declining age ; With lenient arts extend a mother's breath,...the bed of death ; Explore the thought, explain the aching eye, And keep awhile one parent from the sky." HAMPTON COURT. That one prelate should build... | |
 | Alexander Pope, William Roscoe - 1824 - 498 pages
...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, NOTES. Vcr. 408. Me, let the tender office] These exquisite lines give us a very interesting picture... | |
 | Alexander Pope, William Roscoe - 1824 - 498 pages
...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, Vcr. 408. Me, let the tender office] These exquisite lines give us a very interesting picture of the... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1824 - 494 pages
...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, NOTES. Ver. 408. Me, let the tender office] These exquisite lines give us a very interesting picture... | |
 | Thomas Bowdler - 1824 - 342 pages
...— " Me let the pleasing office long engage To rock the cradle of declining dge; With lenient hand extend a mother's breath, Make languor smile, and smooth the bed of death; Explore each thought, explain the asking eye, And keep awhile one parent from the sky." Mr. Bowdler's principles... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1825 - 536 pages
...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,...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... | |
 | British anthology - 1825 - 460 pages
...from kings shall know less joy than I. () 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... | |
 | William Hazlitt - 1825 - 600 pages
...thine ! Be no unpleasing melaneholy mine : Me let the tender offiee long engage To roek the eradle iin' thought, explain the asking eye, And keep awhile one parent from the sky ! On eares like these... | |
 | Thomas Bowdler - 1825 - 364 pages
...— " Me let the pleasing office long engage To rock the cradle of declining age ; With lenient hand extend a mother's breath, Make languor smile, and smooth the bed of death ; Explore each thought, explain the asking eye, And keep awhile one»parent from the sky." Mr. Bowdler's principles... | |
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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... 
