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... The seven ages of human life. Old age - Página 139por Seven ages - 1842 - 140 páginasVista completa - Acerca de este libro
| 1831 - 1008 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 I — yes — / remember well the last scene of her... | |
| Sir Richard Phillips - 1817 - 348 páginas
...lines :— O friend | may each domestic bliss be thine ; , Be no unpleasing melancholy | mine. Or, Me | let the tender office long engage, To rock the cradle | of declining age. Or, O cruel, beauteous, [ ever lovely, | tell Is it in heaven | a crime to love too... | |
| 1818 - 646 páginas
...of declining age; With lenient arts extend a mother's hreath, Make languor smile and smooth the hed of death: Explore the thought, explain the asking eye, And keep awhile one parent from the sky!' never practised with that singleness of devotion which can spring only from having the ohject of its... | |
| Alexander Pope - 1849 - 638 páginas
...of repusing age, With lenient arts extend a muther's hreath, Make languor sunle, and smouth the hed of death ; Explore the thought, explain the asking eye, And keep awhile one parent from the sky ! On rare* like these if length of days attend. May Heaven, to hleas thuse days, preserve my friend... | |
| John Aikin - 1820 - 832 páginas
...know less joy than I. O friend ! may each domestic bliss be thine ! Be no unpleasing melancholy mine : tude ; he then survey'd Hell and the gulf between,...Satan there Coasting the wall of Heaven on this s sinile, and smooth the bed of death, Explore the thought, explain the asking eye, And^eep awhile one... | |
| John Aikin - 1821 - 402 páginas
...know less joy than 1. O friend ! may each domestic bliss be thine ! Be no unpleasing melancholy mine : Me, let the tender office long engage, To rock the...asking eye, And keep awhile one parent from the sky ! On cares like these if length of days attend, May Heaven, to bless those days, preserve my friend,... | |
| Papirius Cursor - 1821 - 40 páginas
...himself with the following — which may well be compared with any that filial piety ever dictated : — Me let the tender office long engage To rock the cradle...Explore the thought, explain the asking eye, And keep at least one parent from the sky.— Pope. PIC-NIC. (Pique-nique — Diet. de Vacademie.) A social... | |
| John Bowdler - 1821 - 510 páginas
...ourselves, When nature, being oppress'd, commands the mind To suffer with the body. Me, let the teader office long engage, To rock the cradle of reposing...age, With lenient arts extend a Mother's breath, Make langour smile, and smooth the bed of death; Explore the thought, explain the asking eye, And keep a... | |
| 1822 - 284 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...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 Heaven, to bless... | |
| 1822 - 150 páginas
...his mother, in the following most beautiful lines : " Me let the tender office long engage, To rook the cradle of reposing age, With lenient arts extend...languor smile, and smooth the bed of death ; Explore tht thought, eitplain the n.itiny tye, And keep awhile one parent from the skj. of their children is... | |
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