 | Alexander Pope - 1839 - 510 pages
...less joy than I. О Friend ! may each domestic bliss be thine ! Bo no unpleaeuig melancholy mine : aught to stray Far as the solar walk, or Milky Way ; Yet Himple nature tu arts extend a mother's breath, Make languor smile, and smooth the bed of death, Explore the thought,... | |
 | Fitz-Greene Halleck - 1840 - 372 pages
...know less joy than I. Oh 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, With lenient arts extend a mother's breath, Make languor smile, and smooth the bed of death, Explore the thought,... | |
 | John Aikin - 1841 - 840 pages
...mine : Me, let the tender oflice long engage, To rock the cradle of reposing age, With lenient arts lliR thought, explain the asking eye, And keep awhile one parent from the sky ! On cares like these... | |
 | Christian - 1841 - 998 pages
...in pain and sickness; and do all we can to enliven and brighten the cloudy evening of their days. ' gs, and our gross imaginations in regard to the divine natu repostng age; Wtth lentent arts extend a mother's breath, Make languor smlle, and smooth the bed of... | |
 | Seven ages - 1842 - 154 pages
...But, perhaps, there can be found no filial tribute which has more feeling and poetry than the lines of Pope : 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,... | |
 | John Aikin - 1843 - 826 pages
...less joy than I. O friend ' may each domestic bliss be thine ! Be no unpleasing melancholy mine • arts extend a mother's breath, Make languor smile, and smooth the bed of death, Explore the thought,... | |
 | Samuel Maunder - 1844 - 544 pages
...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."... | |
 | Encyclopaedia - 1845 - 806 pages
...those ancient and modern chirurgeons, but by my own practice. Witeman. Surgery, vol. ii. p. 1 1 1 . 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. Pope. Prologue to... | |
 | C. P. Bronson - 1845 - 334 pages
...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,... | |
 | 1846 - 670 pages
...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 of reposing age ; With lenient arts extend a mother's breath, Make languor smile, and smooth the bed of death ; Explore the thought,... | |
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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... 
