 | 1809 - 402 pages
...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 askin« pye, And keep awhile one parent from the sky ! On cares like these, if length of days attend,... | |
 | British poets - English poetry - 1809 - 526 pages
...cradle of reposing age, With lenient arts extend a mother's breath, Make langour smile, and smoothe 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, May Heav'n, to bless... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - English poetry - 1810 - 546 pages
...smile, ad '•mooth the bed ot death, Kxplure the thought, explain the asking eye, And keep a while one parent from the sky ! On cares like these if length of days attend, May Heaven, to bless thosetlays, pri •serve my friend, Preserve him social, cheerful, and serene. And... | |
 | Alexander Chalmers - English poetry - 1810 - 536 pages
...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 asking eye, And keep a while one parent from the «ky ! On cares like these if length of days attend , May Heaven, to bless... | |
 | William Warburton - 1811 - 444 pages
...my study, and in the office* of filial piety — " With lenient Arts t' extend a Mother's breath, " Make Languor smile, and smooth the bed of death, "...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
...my study, and in the officei of filial piety — " With lenient Arts t' extend a Mother's breath, "^ Make Languor smile, and smooth the bed of death, "...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
...published in the Weekly Miscellany ^. By William WarburWith lenient arts t' extend a Mother's breath, Make languor smile, and smooth the bed of death ;...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
...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, May Heav'n, to bless... | |
 | John Nichols - Authors, English - 1812 - 734 pages
...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 zeal in such as the Letter-writer, and defect of Religion in others of better breeding,... | |
 | sir Samuel Egerton Brydges (bart.) - 1813 - 326 pages
...a Friend. " He gain'd from Heav'n, 'twas all be wish'd, a friend." 35. Epistle to another Friend. " On cares like these, if length of days attend, May Heav'n, to bless those days, preserve my friend." 36. On the Theological Writings of Grotius. " Fama, nialum." ^'fg37 Story of an Eccentric Character.... | |
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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... 
