 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...  London, Or Interesting Memorials of Its Rise, Progress & Present State - Էջ 190Sholto Percy, Reuben Percy - 1824Ամբողջությամբ դիտվող - Այս գրքի մասին
 | Philip Parsons - 1779 - 250 էջ
...It is your delight to repay the maternal anxieties of an aged parent by the moft diligent attention To rock the cradle of declining age, With lenient arts extend a mother's breath, Make languor fmile, and fmooth the bed of death. It is your delight to extend that care to your own rifing family,... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1890 - 562 էջ
...no unpleasing melancholy 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 էջ
...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 awhile one parent from the sky ! On cares like these, if length of days attend,... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1804 - 190 էջ
...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,... | |
 | Nathan Drake - 1805 - 424 էջ
...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...the bed of Death, Explore the thought, explain the asking eye, And keep awhile one parent from the sky ! Johnson, speaking of this amiable feature in... | |
 | Nathan Drake - 1805 - 420 էջ
...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 Death, Explore the thought, explain the asking eye, And keep awhile one parent from the sky ! Johnson, speaking of this amiable feature in... | |
 | Joseph Warton - 1806 - 440 էջ
...Richardson, 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...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... | |
 | John Bell - 1807 - 562 էջ
...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 the thought, explain the asking eye, And keep awhile one parent from the sky ! On cares like these, if length of days attend,... | |
 | Alexander Pope, Thomas Park - 1808 - 388 էջ
...no unpleasing melancholy mine : Me, let the tender office long engageTo rock the cradle of reposing age, With lenient arts extend a mother's breath, Make...the bed 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,... | |
 | 1809 - 402 էջ
...no nnplensiug melancholy mine : Me let the tender office long engage, To rock the cradle of reposing age ; With lenient arts extend a mother's breath,...the bed of death ; Explore the thought, explain the askin« pye, And keep awhile one parent from the sky ! On cares like these, if length of days attend,... | |
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