 | Seven ages - 1842 - 154 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 ;...asking eye, And keep awhile one parent from the sky. We may conclude this subject with one of the most striking examples of filial piety to be found in... | |
 | John Aikin - 1843 - 826 pages
...office long engage, To rock the cradle of reposing age, With lenient arts extend a mother's breath, ] x Heaven, to bless those days, preserve my friend Preserve him social, cheerful, and serene. And just... | |
 | 1843 - 508 pages
...homage to his genius, he thought no time so well or so happily bestowed as that which he gave to " Make languor smile and smooth the bed of death, Explore...asking eye. And keep a-while one parent from the sky." That Pope guarded the flickering taper of life with the fondest affection, we have ample testimony.... | |
 | Elizabeth Stone - 1843 - 884 pages
...felt for this her adopted child and tender friend, who on her part appeared sedulously anxious to " Explore the thought, explain the asking eye, And keep awhile one parent from the sky." And thus would they pass along ; every individual young or old, bad or good, rich or poor, saluting... | |
 | 1844 - 332 pages
...office long engage, Tlf 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! POPE. LITERARY NOTICES. INSTRUCTIONS IN THOROUGH BASS. Being an Easy Method of learning to play Church... | |
 | C. P. Bronson - 1845 - 330 pages
...rock the mulle of reposing age ; With lenient aris— «Mend л mother's breath, Make languor emile, and smooth the bed of death ; Explore the thought, explain the asking eye, And keep, a while, one parent from the thy 1 Proverbs. 1. Neither great poverty, nor great riches will bear reason.... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1846 - 320 pages
...of reposing age, With lenient arts extend a mother's hreath, Make languor smile, and smooth the hed of death ; Explore the thought, explain the asking...On cares like these if length of days attend. May Heaven, to hless those days, preserve my friend ! Preserve him social, cheerful, and serene, And just... | |
 | 1846 - 386 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 ;'...asking eye, And keep awhile one parent from the sky." From his father Pope is said to have inherited his crooked person, and from his mother his constitutional... | |
 | Hugh Swinton Legaré - 1846 - 652 pages
...cradle of declining age, With lenient aits extend a mother's breath, Make languor smile and soothe the bed of death, Explore the thought, explain the asking eye, And keep at Icasi one parent from the iky '" VOL. I. — B tell plainly of what must be in hers. Upon occasions,... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1847 - 546 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 the thought, explain the asking eye, And keep at least one parent from the sky." Pro!, to the Satires. Nor can such a remark justly be applied to... | |
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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... 
