 | Frank Elizabeth - 1814 - 400 頁
...his poetical works, he makes very affectionate mention of her, particularly in the following lines. " Me, let the tender office long engage, To rock the...languor smile, and smooth the bed of death," * Explore (he thought, explain the asking eye, ^ '• ^ And keep awhile one parent from the sky !" i ;. j. "... | |
 | 1816 - 358 頁
...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 頁
...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 Nichols - 1817 - 866 頁
...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... | |
 | Sir Richard Phillips - 1817 - 348 頁
...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 頁
...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 頁
...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 頁
...from kings shall know less joy than I. O friend ! may each domestic bliss be thine ! Be no unpleasing , In blissful solitude ; he then survey'd Hell and...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 頁
...from kings shall 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,...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 頁
...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... | |
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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 thought, explain the asking eye, And keep awhile one parent from the sky... 
