 | 1816 - 358 str.
...of his poetical works, he makes very affectionate menof her, particularly in the following lines. " Me, let the tender office long engage, To rock the...asking eye, And keep awhile one parent from the sky !" " The filial piety of Pope," says Dr. Johnson in the of that great poet, " was in the highest degree... | |
 | Mrs. Barbauld (Anna Letitia) - 1816 - 414 str.
...and rifled all it's sweetness ; Then cast it, like a loathsome weed, away. Me let the tender offise long engage, To rock the cradle of reposing age ;...asking eye, And keep awhile one parent from the sky. Tir'd Nature's sweet restorer, halmy Sleep ! He, like the world, his ready visit pays Where Fortune... | |
 | John Evans - 1817 - 610 str.
...POPE'S DISSOLUTION. O Friend ! may each domestic bliss be thine, . Be no uupleasing melancholy mine ! Me let the tender office long engage To rock the cradle...asking eye, And keep awhile one Parent from the sky ! There is a letter written to Richardson, the painter, desiring him to come to Twickenham to take... | |
 | John Nichols - 1817 - 866 str.
...the service of my neighbour, in my study, and in the office! ol filial piety. With lenient arts t' extend a Mother's breath, Make languor smile, and...asking eye, And keep awhile one parent from the sky. Up. fTarburton's Workj, 4to, vol. VI. p. 12. TS "DlA* " DEAR SIR, June 15, 1750. " Your favour of the... | |
 | 1831 - 1008 str.
...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... | |
 | 1818 - 646 str.
...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 str.
...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 - 1821 - 402 str.
...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 str.
...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 str.
...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 while one parent from the sky ! Like leaves on trees the race of man is found, Now green in youth,... | |
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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... 
