 | Vicesimus Knox - English poetry - 1809 - 604 pages
...than I. O Friend ! may each domestic bliss be thine ' .Bo no uiiplcusing Melancholy mine: Me let tlK- .rins her reign Slights ev'rybnrrow'd charm that laiisiunr smile, and smooth the bed of death; Explore the thought, explain the asking eye, And keep... | |
 | Alexander Chalmers - English poetry - 1810 - 536 pages
...domestic bliss be thine ! Be no unpleasing melancholy mine : Me, let the tender office long engage, 410 To rock the cradle of reposing age, With lenient arts extend a uioH-.rr's breath, Make languor smile, ad «mooih the bed of death, Explore the thought, explain the... | |
 | William Warburton - 1811 - 444 pages
...service of my neighbour, in my study, and in the office* of filial piety — " With lenient Arts t' extend a Mother's breath, " Make Languor smile, and...asking eye, " And keep awhile one Parent from the sky." Excess of zeal in such as the letter-writer, and defect of religion in others of better breeding, so... | |
 | William Warburton, Richard Hurd - Anglican Communion - 1811 - 454 pages
...service of my neighbour, in my study, and in the officei of filial piety — " With lenient Arts t' extend a Mother's breath, "^ Make Languor smile, and...asking eye, " And keep awhile one Parent from the sky." Excess of zeal in such as the letterrwriter, and defect of religion in others of better breeding, so... | |
 | John Nichols - Authors, English - 1812 - 736 pages
...by some Letters lately published in the Weekly Miscellany ^. By William WarburWith lenient arts t' extend a Mother's breath, Make languor smile, and...asking eye, And keep awhile one Parent from the sky. " Excess of zeal in such as the Letter-writer, and defect of Religion in others of better breeding,... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1812 - 348 pages
...from kings shall 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,...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... | |
 | John Nichols - Authors, English - 1812 - 734 pages
...by some Letters lately published in the Weekly Miscellany J. By William WarburWith lenient arts t' extend a Mother's breath, Make languor smile, and smooth the bed of death j Explore the thought, explain the asking eye, And keep awhile one Parent from the sky. " Excess of... | |
 | Early English newspapers - 1813 - 778 pages
...most faithfully and most zealously in tending her honoured and helpless distant relatives ; saying, " Me let the tender office long engage, To rock the cradle of declining age !" POPE. .And this, too, in the prime anrt viguur of Hie, although, she herself wanted... | |
 | Nathan Drake - English literature - 1814 - 404 pages
...pathetically alludes to his filial duty. O Friend ! may each domestic bliss be thine ! Be no unpleasing melancholy mine: Me, let the tender office long engage,...asking eye, And keep awhile one parent from the sky ! AI Johnson, speaking of this amiable feature in the character of Pope, observes, that " his parents... | |
 | Elizabeth Frank - English language - 1814 - 400 pages
...mention of tier, pai'ticularlv in the following lines. " Me, let the tender office long engage, <I"o rock the cradle of reposing age; With lenient arts...eye, ' . • .And keep awhile one parent from the sky !" "The filial piety of Pope," says Dr. Johnson in the life of that great poet, " was in the highest... | |
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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... 
