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 the British Poets - Seite 121von Robert Anderson - 1795 - 1157 SeitenVollansicht - Über dieses Buch
| Alexander Pope - 1751 - 288 Seiten
...O grant me, thus to live, and thus to die ! 404 Who fprung from Kings fhall know lefs joy than I. O Friend ! may each domeftic blifs be thine ! Be no...repofing Age, With lenient arts extend a Mother's breath, 410 Make Langour fmile, and fmooth the bed of Death, Explore the thought, explain theaflcing eye, And... | |
| Alexander Pope - 1751 - 286 Seiten
...404 Who fprung from Kings fhall know lefs joy than I. O Friend ! may each domeftic blifs be thine I Be no unpleafing Melancholy mine : Me, let the tender...With lenient arts extend a Mother's breath, 41^ Make Langour fmile, and fmooth the bed of Death) Explore the thought, explain the afking eye, And keep a... | |
| Alexander Pope - 1751 - 278 Seiten
...! 40. Who fprung from Kings fhall know Ids joy than I. O Friend ! may each dome/He blifs be thine 1 Be no unpleafing Melancholy mine : Me, let the tender office long engage, To rock the cradle of repofmg Age, With lenient arts extend a Mother's breath, 4,0 Make Langour fmile, and fmooth the bed... | |
| Alexander Pope - 1752 - 434 Seiten
...pathetic defcription of that filial Piety, in the exercife of which he makes his own happinefs to confift. Me let the tender office long engage To rock the Cradle of repofing Age j With lenient arts extend a Mother's breath, Make Languor fmile, and fmooth the bed of Death ^ Explore... | |
| Alexander Pope - 1754 - 278 Seiten
...from Kings (hall know lefs joy than I. O Friend ! may each domeftic blifs be thine ! Be no unplealing Melancholy mine : Me, let the tender office long engage,...repofing Age, With lenient arts extend a Mother's breath, 410 Make Languor fmile, and fmooth the bed of Death, Explore the thought, explain the afking eye, And... | |
| 1764 - 198 Seiten
...Voltaire's works, vol. xiii. p. 258. 10. O friend ! may each domeftic blifs be thine ! Be no unpleailng melancholy mine : Me, let the tender office long engage,...repofing age, With lenient arts extend a mother's breath, Make languor fmile, and fmooth the bed of death, Explore the thought, explain the aiking eye, And keep... | |
| Owen Ruffhead - 1769 - 600 Seiten
...defcription of that filial piety, in the exercife of which he makes his own happinefs to confift. " Oh friend ! may each domeftic blifs be " thine ! " Be...age, *' With lenient arts extend a Mother's breath, *' Make languor fmile, and fmooth the bed of ' " death, ** Explore the thought, explain the afldng... | |
| Owen Ruffhead - 1769 - 600 Seiten
...piety, in jthe exercife of which he makes his own happiucls to conllft. ** Oh friend ! may each domeflic blifs be " thine ! ** Be no unpleafing melancholy...tender office long engage, *' To rock the cradle of repofmg age, *' With lenient arts extend a Mother's breath, *' Make languor fmile, and fmooth the bed... | |
| Owen Ruffhead - 1769 - 592 Seiten
...his own happinefs to confift. " Oh friend ! may each dome/lie blifs be " thine ! " Be no unpleafmg melancholy mine : " Me, let the tender office long engage, " To rock the cradle of rcpofing age, " With lenient arts extend a Mother's breath, " Make languor fmile, and fmooth the bed... | |
| Alexander Pope - 1778 - 394 Seiten
...and thus to die ! Who fprung from kings fhall know lefs joy than I. 405 О friend ! may each domeitic blifs be thine ! Be no unpleafing melancholy mine...the tender office long engage, To rock the cradle of repqfing age, With lenient arts extend a mother's breath, 410 Make langour fmile, and fmooththe bed... | |
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