 | John Selby Watson - 1863 - 700 páginas
...neighbour, in my study, and in the offices of filial piety : With lenient arts t' extend a mother's breath, Make languor smile, and smooth the bed of death, Explore...asking eye, And keep a while one parent from the sky. Excess of zeal, in such as the letter-writer, and defect of religion, in others of better breeding,... | |
 | Devonshire Association for the Advancement of Science, Literature and Art - 1863 - 608 páginas
...to a common office of filial love. " Oh, friend, may each domestic bliss be thine, Be no uupleasing melancholy mine ; Me let the tender office long engage,...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... | |
 | William Bodham Donne - 1864 - 266 páginas
...these beautiful lines may be compared the equally beautiful verses of Pope (Epistle to Arbuthnot) : ' Me let the tender office long engage, To rock the...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... | |
 | John Bartlett - 1865 - 504 páginas
...streams run dimpling all the way. Line 314. Wit that can creep, and pride that licks the dust. Line 333. Me, let the tender office long engage To rock the...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... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1867 - 626 páginas
...groan. O, grant me thus to live, and thus to die ! Who sprung from kings shall know less joy than I. O friend, may each domestic bliss be thine ; Be no unpleasing...extend a mother's breath, 410 Make languor smile, and smoothe the bed of dea,th, Explore the thought, explain the asking eye, And keep awhile one parent... | |
 | 1867 - 664 páginas
...idle song." The concluding stanzas are so full of tenderness that I venture to give them :— " Oh ! friend, may each domestic bliss be thine, Be no unpleasing...reposing age, With lenient arts extend a mother's breath, Hake languor smile and smooth the bed of death. On, cores like these, if length of days attend, May... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1867 - 520 páginas
...groan. O grant me thus to live, and thus to die ! Who sprung from kings shall know less joy than L O friend ! may each domestic bliss be thine ! Be no...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... | |
 | Henry George Bohn - 1911 - 784 páginas
...stamp their race, With signatures of such majestic grace. 3696 Pope : Odyssey. Bk. iv. Line 75 Mo, let the tender office long engage To rock the cradle...age : With lenient arts extend a mother's breath, Make languor smile, and smooth the bed of death. PARLIAMENT. Britain, changeful as a child at play,... | |
 | Arthur St. John Adcock - 1912 - 412 páginas
...her declining years. " O friend," he writes to Arbuthnot, in the Prologue to the Satires : — " O friend, may each domestic bliss be thine ! Be no unpleasing...office long engage To rock the cradle of reposing age, \\ ith lenient arts extend a mother's breath, Make languor smile, and smooth the bed of death, Explore... | |
 | Francis Cotterell Hodgson - 1913 - 464 páginas
...lines as There shall the morn her earliest tears bestow, There the first roses of the year shall blow;1 Me let the tender office long engage To rock the cradle...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;2 ° To... | |
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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, explain the asking eye, And... 
