 | Alexander Pope - 1890 - 562 pages
...less joy than TL O, friend ! may each domestic bliss be thine ' Be no unpleasing melancholy mine: Ms, let the tender office long engage, To rock the cradle...breath, Make languor smile, and smooth the bed of death,1 Explore the thought, explain the asking eye, And keep awhile one parent from the sky ! On cares... | |
 | John Bell - 1796 - 480 pages
...from kings shall know less joy than l. 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... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1804 - 190 pages
...kings shall know less joy than I. Oh, 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,... | |
 | Nathan Drake - 1805 - 424 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,...Explore the thought, explain the asking eye, And keep awhile one parent from the sky ! Johnson, speaking of this amiable feature in the character of Pope,... | |
 | Joseph Warton - 1806 - 440 pages
...Richardson, desiring him to come to Twickenham, and take a sketch of his mother, just after she was With lenient arts extend a mother's breath, Make languor...Explore the thought, explain the asking eye, And keep awhile one parent from the sky!* These exquisite lines give us a very interesting picture of the exemplary... | |
 | John Bell - 1807 - 562 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 Mike Languor smile, and smooth the bed of Death, Explore the thought, explain the asking eye, And... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1807 - 288 pages
...kings shall know less joy than I. O friend ! may each domestic bliss he thine ! 406 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 hed of death, Explore the thought, explain the asking eye, And... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1807 - 474 pages
...from kings shall know less joy than I. O friend ! may each domestic hliss he thine ! Be no unpleasing melancholy mine : Me, let the tender office long engage...reposing age, With lenient arts extend a mother's hreath, Make languor smile, and smoothe the hed of death ; Explore the thought, explain the asking... | |
 | Alexander Pope, Thomas Park - 1808 - 388 pages
...domestic bliss be thine ! Be no unpleasing melancholy mine : Me, let the tender office long engageTo rock the cradle of reposing age, With lenient arts...Explore the thought, explain the asking eye, And keep awhile one parent from the sky ! On cares like these, if length, of days attend, May Heaven to bless... | |
 | 1809 - 402 pages
...from Kings shall know less joy than 1. O friend ! nriy each domestic bliss be thine 5 Be no nnplensiug melancholy mine : Me let the tender office long engage,...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,... | |
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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... 
