 O friend ! may each domeftic blifs be thine! Be no unpleafing melancholy mine! Me, let the tender office long engage, To rock the cradle of repofing age * ; With lenient arts extend a mother's breath, Make languor fmile, and fmooth the bed of death ;...  An Essay on the Genius and Writings of Pope - Page 329by Joseph Warton - 1782Full view - About this book
 | Alexander Pope - 1751 - 358 pages
...with his friends, who he imagined had informed them of his approach, the mailer of the ceremonies came O Friend ! may each domeftic blifs be thine ! Be no...repofing Age, With lenient arts extend a Mother's breath, 410 Make Langour fmile, and fmooth the bed of Death, Explore the thought, explain the aiking eye, And... | |
 | Alexander Pope - English literature - 1751 - 288 pages
...groan. O grant me, thus to live, and thus to die ! 404 Who fprung from Kings fhall know lefs joy than I. O Friend! may each domeftic blifs be thine! Be no...repofing Age, With lenient arts extend a Mother's breath, 419 Make Langour fmile, and fmooth the bed of Death, Explore the thought, explain the afking eye, And... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1752 - 434 pages
...company, jiceoftcd him in this manner; " Stranger, how far off is DemcOFriend! may each domelbc bills be thine! Be no unpleafing Melancholy mine: Me, let...repofing Age, With lenient arts extend a Mother's breath, 41 o Make Languor fmile, and finooth the bed of Death, Explore the thought, explain the allcing eye,... | |
 | Alexander Pope - English literature - 1757 - 272 pages
...and thus to die ! 404 Who fprung from Kings mall know lefs joy than I. 0 Friend 1 may each domeflic blifs be thine ! Be no unpleafing Melancholy mine...repofing Age, With lenient arts extend a Mother's breath, 410 Make Languor fmile, and fmooth the bed of Death, ixplore the; thought, explain the afking eye,... | |
 | Alexander Pope - English poetry - 1760 - 360 pages
...groan. O grant me, thus to live, and thus to die! 404 Who fprung from Kings {hall know lefs joy than I. O Friend! may each domeftic blifs be thine! Be no unpleafing Melancholy mine : VARIATIONS. After Ver. 405. in the MS. And of myfelf, too, fomething muft I fay ? Take then this... | |
 | Literature - 1764 - 198 pages
...Voltaire's works, vol. xiii. p. 258. 10. O friend! may each domeftic blifs be thine ! Be no unpleailng melancholy mine : Me, let the tender office long engage,...the bed of death, Explore the thought, explain the aiking eye, And keep a while one parent from the iky .' On cares like thefe if length of days attend,... | |
 | Owen Ruffhead - Poets, English - 1769 - 600 pages
...piety, in jthe exercife of which he makes his own happiucls to conllft. ** Oh friend! may each domeflic blifs be " thine! ** Be no unpleafing melancholy mine...tender office long engage, *' To rock the cradle of repofmg age, *' With lenient arts extend a Mother's breath, *' Make languor fmile, and fmooth the bed... | |
 | Owen Ruffhead - Biography - 1769 - 592 pages
...makes his own happinefs to confift. " Oh friend! may each dome/lie blifs be " thine ! w Be no unpleafmg melancholy mine : " Me, let the tender office long engage, " To rock the cradle of repofing age, u With lenient arts extend a Mother's breath, " Make languor fmile, and fmooth the bed of " death,... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - English poetry - 1779 - 414 pages
...groan. O grant me thus to live, and thus to die ! Who fprung from Kings mall know lefs joy than I. O Friend ! may each domeftic blifs be thine ! Be no...repofing Age, With lenient arts extend a Mother's breath, 410 Make Languor finile, and finooth the bed of Death, VARIATION. After ver. 405. in the MS. Explore... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - English poetry - 1779 - 398 pages
...groan. O grant me thus to live, and thus to die ! Who fprung from Kings ihall know lefs joy than I. O Friend ! may each domeftic blifs be thine ! Be no...repofing Age, With lenient arts extend a Mother's breath, 410 Make Languor fmile, and fmooth the bed of Death, Explore VARIATION. After ver. 4.05. in the MS.... | |
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