 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 a while one parent from the sky...  The Works of Alexander Pope, Esq: Satires. On receiving from the Right ... - Strana 9podľa Alexander Pope, William Lisle Bowles - 1806Úplné zobrazenie - O tejto knihe
 | sir Samuel Egerton Brydges (bart.) - 1832 - Počet stránok 306
...aged mother. •• 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 ; With lenient arts extend a mother's breath, Make languor smile, and smoothe the bed... | |
 | John Kenyon - 1833 - Počet stránok 176
...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 of reposing age. With lenient arts extend a mother's breath, Make languor smile, and smooth the bed of... | |
 | Samuel Griswold Goodrich - 1834 - Počet stránok 440
...parents, is when they labor under infirmities of body or mind, and in the time of extreme old age. " Me let the tender office long engage To rock the cradle of declining age, With lenient arts extend a parent's breath, Make languor smile, and smooth the bed of... | |
 | Samuel Griswold Goodrich - 1834 - Počet stránok 432
...parents, is when they labor under infirmities of body or mind, and in the time of extreme old age. " Me let the tender office long engage To rock the cradle of declining age, With lenient arts extend a parent's breath, Make languor smile, and smooth the bed of... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1835 - Počet stránok 378
...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, With lenient arts extend a mother's breath, 410 Make languor smile, and smoothe the bed... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1836 - Počet stránok 502
...know less joy than I. O friend ! may each domestic hliss he thine ! Be no unpleasing melancholy mine ; he heat reposing age, With lenient arts extend a mother's hreath, Make languor smile, and smooth the hed of... | |
 | Robert Walsh - 1836 - Počet stránok 274
...— their " pensive and pathetic sweetness," — appertained of right to the sex which he reviled. " 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... | |
 | Leonard Woods, Charles D. Pigeon - 1838 - Počet stránok 692
...mind familiar with the elegant and the tender, but a heart "tremblingly alive" with sensibility. " Me let the tender office long engage, To rock the cradle of reposing age. With lenient acts extend a mother's breath. Make languor smile, and smooth the bed of... | |
 | 1842 - Počet stránok 574
...omnes, Fraternsequc dabunt pignus amicitise.' Pope's charming lines arc thus pleasingly rendered : — ' 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... | |
 | 1839 - Počet stránok 66
...Pleas'd to the last, he crops the flow'ry food, And licks the hand uprais'd to shed his blood. Pope. Me, let the tender office long engage To rock the cradle of reposing age ; With lenient art extend a mother's breath, Make languor smile, and smooth the bed of... | |
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