...perhaps, there can be found no filial tribute which has more feeling and poetry than the lines of Pope : Me let the tender office long engage To rock the cradle...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...

...grant me thus to live, and thus to die ! Who sprung from kings shall know less joy than I. O friend ' x ` Make languor smile, and smooth the bed of death, Explore the thought, explain the asking eye, And keep...

...homage to his genius, he thought no time so well or so happily bestowed as that which he gave to " Make languor smile and smooth the bed of death, Explore the thought, explain the asking eye. And keep a-while one parent from the sky." That Pope guarded the flickering taper of life with the fondest affection,...

...office long engage, Tlf 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! POPE. LITERARY NOTICES. INSTRUCTIONS IN THOROUGH BASS. Being an Easy...

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...those ancient and modern chirurgeons, but by my own practice. Witeman. Surgery, vol. ii. p. 1 1 1 . Me, let the tender office long engage, To rock the...reposing age, With lenient arts extend a mother's breath, < Make languor smile, and smooth the bed of death. Pope. Prologue to the Salirei, r. 412. But we allow...

...have been in existence when the beautiful lines in which she is there mentioned were written : — " Me let the tender office long engage To rock the cradle...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...

...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." From his father Pope is said to have inherited his crooked person,...

...Who sprung from kings shall know less joy than I. O Friend ! may each domestic bliss be thine ; 406 Be no unpleasing melancholy mine. Me, let the tender...410 Make languor smile, and smooth the bed of death, Ver. 408. Me, let the tender office] These exquisite lines give us a very interesting picture of the...

...devoted to the tenderest domestic duties, to which he has alluded in lines never to be forgotten : " Me let the tender office long engage, To rock the...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...