 | 1831 - 1040 páginas
...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 páginas
...aged mother. •• O friend! may each domestic bliss be thine; Be no unpleasing melancholy mine ! Me let the tender office long engage, To rock the...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... | |
 | William Phelan - 1832 - 454 páginas
...realized : . . • O friend, may each domestic bliss be thine : Be no unpleasing melancholy mine : Mr, let the tender office long engage, To rock the cradle of reposing age ; Explore the thought, explain the asking eye, And keep awhile BOTH PARENTS from the sky ! ' From 1823.,... | |
 | John Kenyon - 1833 - 176 páginas
...of Pope, from the prologue to the Satires, although 10 well known, can hardly be too often quoted. " Me let the tender office long engage To rock the cradle...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 - 1834 - 306 páginas
...Twickenham ; yet his treatment of an aged mother was exemplary, even to admiration — With lenient arts t' extend a mother's breath, Make languor smile, and...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 - 1834 - 432 páginas
...tender 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...the thought, explain the asking eye, And keep awhile a parent from the sky." COUNCIL OF HORSES. A FABLE. UPON a time, a neighing Steerl, Who grazed among... | |
 | 1883 - 602 páginas
...Henry, Lord Brougham.' Written by himself. VoL ip 12. ' Me let the tender office long engage To rock tho cradle of reposing age ; With lenient arts extend...Explore the thought, explain the asking eye, And keep a while one parent from the sky.' Pope's deformity came from his father ; and, as regards personal... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray IV, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle) - 1842 - 578 páginas
...omnes, Fraternaeque dabunt pignus amicitise.' Pope's charming lines are thus pleasingly rendered :1 Me let the tender office long engage To rock the cradle of expiring age ; With lenient art extend a mother's breath, Make languor smile, and smooth the bed of... | |
 | Valerie Rumbold - 1989 - 342 páginas
...Even the famous lines on Edith's last illness are not so much about her as about her son watching her: Me, let the tender Office long engage To rock the...Explore the Thought, explain the asking Eye, And keep a while one Parent from the Sky! (line 408) The first extant version of this passage, described in... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1998 - 260 páginas
...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 To rock the...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... | |
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Friend ! may each domestic bliss be thine ! Be no unpleasing melancholy mine : 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... 
