 | Edward Shepherd Creasy - 1850 - 532 str.
...— •• I! i ni did the tender office long engage To rock the pillow of reposing age, With Tenient arts extend a Mother's breath, Make Languor smile,...Explore the thought, explain the asking eye, And keep a while one parent from the sky." Gray's mother died in 1753, and, according to his friend, Mason,... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1850 - 510 str.
...office long engage, To rock the cradle of reposing age, With lenient arts extend a mother's breath, Jwkc languor smile, and smooth the bed of death ; Explore...asking eye, And keep awhile one parent from the sky ! Cn cares like these if length of days attend, Slay Heaven, to bless those days, preserve my friend... | |
 | Henry Bartlett Maglathlin - 1851 - 328 str.
...fourth? Rule fifth? Apply the rules to the illustrations. Define cheerfulness. Gayety. Joy. * Plaintive. With lenient arts extend a mother's breath, Make languor...Explore the thought, explain the asking eye, And keep at least one parent from the sky. 4. Pathos, Solemnity, and Grandeur. The year Has gone, and with it... | |
 | 1852 - 874 str.
...know less joy than I. O friend ! may each domestic bliss be thine ! Be no unpleasing melancholy mine : that to shun mankind ; Some place the bliss in action, some in ! On cares like these if length of days attend. May Heaven, to bless those days, preserve my friend,... | |
 | Clara Lucas Balfour - 1852 - 458 str.
...— his mother particularly. " Me let the tender office long engage, To rock the cradle of declining age; With lenient arts extend a mother's breath, Make...Explore the thought, explain the asking eye, And keep at least one parent from the sky." He was, as from his filial piety might be expected, a warm and faithful... | |
 | Chauncey Allen Goodrich - 1852 - 976 str.
...cradle of reposing age, With lenient arts extend a mother's breath. Make languor smile, and Amooth the bed of death , Explore the thought, explain the asking eye, And keep a while one parent from the sky ! 432 433 if he had not been so thoroughly acquainted with the true... | |
 | 1853 - 756 str.
...commemorated his reverence and affection for his mother, in the Prologue to his " Satires :" — " Me, lot the tender office long engage, To rock the cradle...asking eye, And keep awhile one parent from the sky." Between 1730 and 1740 he published two other "Moral Essays," "Imitations of Horace," a modernized version... | |
 | Joseph Addison - 1853 - 600 str.
...could not only write such verses as those, but live up to them, has at least some claim tc our respect. 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.— Q. Prof, to ffo Satirti. forced to own, that there was a charm... | |
 | 1853 - 398 str.
...could flee and cast anchor, and be secure from the storms which are ever raging on the sea of life. " 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." TRIAL IN YOUTH. EDITORIAL*. THE desire of happiness is strongly... | |
 | Cyclopaedia - 1853 - 772 str.
...condemn. Butler. PAEENTS. ME let the tender office long engage To rock the cradle of reposing age; AVith lenient arts extend a mother's breath, Make languor...asking eye, And keep awhile one parent from the sky. Pope. Parents are o'erseen, When, with too strict a rein, they do hold in Their child's affections;... | |
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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... 
