 | Philip Doddridge - 1831 - 580 pages
...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 awhile one parent from the sky." Bi*hnp IVarburton's Work*, vol. vi. p. 12, 13. hardened more sinners than any other tenet broached... | |
 | John Evans - Life - 1831 - 322 pages
...an aged mother was exemplary, even to admiration — 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 ! In the discharge of this important duty toward the aged, the fair sex have more especially distinguished... | |
 | Alexander Pope - English poetry - 1831 - 384 pages
...cradle of reposing age, With lenient arts extend a mother's breath, Make languor smile, and smoothe the bed of death, Explore the thought, explain the...asking eye, And keep awhile one parent from the sky ! 1 See a letter from Pope to Aaron Hill, Sept. 3, 1731. From Hampstead, where he was languishing under... | |
 | Scotland - 1831 - 1040 pages
...filial guardian were blessed for three years longer in their pious aim, — " T' explore the wish — explain the asking eye, And keep awhile one parent from the sky. " Then the full of days was summoned to depart, and / — yes — / remember well the last scene of... | |
 | sir Samuel Egerton Brydges (bart.) - 1832 - 306 pages
...cradle of reposing age ; With lenient arts extend a mother's breath, Make languor smile, and smoothe the bed of death ; Explore the thought, explain the asking eye, And ke«p awhile one parent from the sky ! " Compare this with the character and tone of the greater part... | |
 | John Kenyon - English poetry - 1833 - 176 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...asking eye, And keep awhile one parent from the sky." Note 4, page 18. When the last lingering friend hath bade farewell. See Pope's Epistle to Robert, Earl... | |
 | John Evans - Life - 1834 - 306 pages
...an aged mother was exemplary, even to admiration — With lenient arts t' extend a mother's breath, Make languor smile, and smooth the bed of Death! Explore...asking eye, And keep awhile ONE PARENT from the sky ! In the discharge of this important duty towards the aged, the fair sex have more especially distinguished... | |
 | Samuel Griswold Goodrich - Almanacs - 1834 - 440 pages
...office long engage To rock the cradle of declining age, With lenient arts extend a parent's breath, Make languor smile, and smooth the bed of death; Explore...the thought, explain the asking eye, And keep awhile a parent from the sky." COUNCIL OF HORSES. A FABLE. UPON a time, a neighing Steed, Who grazed among... | |
 | Samuel Griswold Goodrich - Almanacs - 1834 - 432 pages
...office long engage To rock the cradle of declining age, With lenient arts extend a parent's breath, Make languor smile, and smooth the bed of death ;...the thought, explain the asking eye, And keep awhile a parent from the sky." COUNCIL OF HORSES. A FABLE. UPON a time, a neighing Steed, Who grazed among... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1835 - 378 pages
...cradle of reposing age, With lenient arts extend a mother's breath, 410 Make languor smile, and smoothe the bed of death, Explore the thought, explain the...On cares like these if length of days attend, May Heaven, to bless those days, preserve my friend ; 415 Preserve him social, cheerful, and serene, And... | |
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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... 
