...parents, is when they labor under infirmities of body or mind, and in the time of extreme old age. " Me let the tender office long engage To rock the cradle of declining age, With lenient arts extend a parent's breath, Make languor smile, and smooth the bed of...

...parents, is when they labor under infirmities of body or mind, and in the time of extreme old age. " Me let the tender office long engage To rock the cradle of declining age, With lenient arts extend a parent's breath, Make languor smile, and smooth the bed of...

...know less joy than I. O friend, may each domestic bliss be thine ; Be no unpleasing melancholy mine. Me, let the tender office long engage, To rock the...reposing age, With lenient arts extend a mother's breath, 410 Make languor smile, and smoothe the bed of death, Explore the thought, explain the asking eye,...

...— their " pensive and pathetic sweetness," — appertained of right to the sex which he reviled. " Me, let the tender office long engage, To rock the...asking eye, And keep awhile one parent from the sky !" Traverse the vast cemetery of Pere La Chaise at Paris, where flowers and tears are scattered on...

...know less joy than I. O friend ! may each domestic hliss he thine ! Be no unpleasing melancholy mine ; he heat hreath, Make languor smile, and smooth the hed of death ; Eiplbre the thought, explain the asking eye,...

...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 eye, And keep awhile one .parent from the sky ! On cares like these if length of days attend, .May Heaven, to hless those days, preserve my friend^!...

...sensibility. " Me let the tender office long engage, To rock the cradle of reposing age. With lenient acts extend a mother's breath, Make languor smile, and...asking eye, And keep awhile one parent from the sky." Johnson's remarks upon Pope's letters, possess an originality, and perhaps a justice, which gives them...

...Henry, Lord Brougham.' Written by himself. VoL ip 12. ' Me let the tender office long engage To rock tho cradle of reposing age ; With lenient arts extend...Explore the thought, explain the asking eye, And keep a while one parent from the sky.' Pope's deformity came from his father ; and, as regards personal...

...omnes, Fraternaeque dabunt pignus amicitise.' Pope's charming lines are thus pleasingly rendered :1 Me let the tender office long engage To rock the cradle of expiring age ; With lenient art extend a mother's breath, Make languor smile, and smooth the bed of...

...Even the famous lines on Edith's last illness are not so much about her as about her son watching her: Me, let the tender Office long engage To rock the...Explore the Thought, explain the asking Eye, And keep a while one Parent from the Sky! (line 408) The first extant version of this passage, described in...