 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 a while one parent from the sky...  The Works of the British Poets - Página 121por Robert Anderson - 1795 - 1157 páginasVista completa - Acerca de este libro
 | Henry Bartlett Maglathlin - 1849 - 80 páginas
...happiness ! unlooked for joy ! Never let love despair ! Thy prize is mine ! 3. Love and Tenderness* Me let the tender office long engage, To rock the cradle of reposing age ; To what is plaintiveness suited ? With what is it accompanied'.' What is rule first?... | |
 | Henry Bartlett Maglathlin - 1850 - 88 páginas
...happiness ! unlooked for joy ! Never let love despair ! Thy prize is mine ! 3. Love and Tenderness.* Me let the tender office long engage, To rock the cradle of reposing age ; To what is phiintiveness suited ? With what is it accompanied ? What is rule first?... | |
 | Henry Bartlett Maglathlin - 1851 - 328 páginas
...nappiness ! unlocked for joy ! Never let love despair ! Thy prize is mine ! 3. Love and Tenderness* Me let the tender office long engage, To rock the cradle of reposing age ; To what is plaintiveness suited ? With what is it accompanied ? What is rule first?... | |
 | 1852 - 874 páginas
...from kings shall know less joy than I. O friend ! may each domestic bliss be thine ! Be no unpleasing bids to serve, and that to shun mankind ; Some place the bliss in action, some reposing age, With lenient arts extend a mother's breath. Make languor smile, and smooth the bed of... | |
 | Chauncey Allen Goodrich - 1852 - 978 páginas
...inadvertently changed tlio wort asking into aching, anil thus lessened the Swlt graphic effect of the original. Me, let the tender office long engage To rock the cradle of reposing age. With lenient »rts extend a mother's breatlt. Make languor smile, and smooth the twd... | |
 | Chauncey Allen Goodrich - 1852 - 976 páginas
...inadvertently changed the word asking into aching, and thus lessened the finely graphic effect of the original. 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 Amooth the bed of... | |
 | Chauncey Allen Goodrich - 1852 - 968 páginas
...inadvertently changed the word miking into aching, and thus lessened the finely graphic effect of the original. 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... | |
 | KATE LOUISE ROBERTS - 1922 - 1422 páginas
...tittering on, and shoves you from the stage. POPE — Imitations of Horace. Bk. II. Ep. 2. L. 322. 19 well skilj'd to find or forge a fault; A turn for punning, reposing age; With lenient arts extend a mother's breath, Make languor smile, and smooth the bed of... | |
 | George William McClelland - 1925 - 1180 páginas
...from Kings shall know less joy than I. O Friend! may each domestic bliss be thine! Be no unpleasing ith the appetite — and the coarsest hunger might barter her consistently fo reposing Age, With lenient arts extend a Mother's breath, <10 Make Languor smile, and smooth the bed... | |
 | William Joseph Long - 1925 - 844 páginas
...as near as he could to a real rather than an artificial sentiment when he wrote of his old mother : Me let the tender office long engage, To rock the cradle of reposing age. Works of Pope. Pope's first important work, An Essay on Criticism (l7ll), is an echo... | |
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