...from kings shall know less joy than 4. 0 friend ! may each domestic bliss be thine ! Be DO unpleasing melancholy mine : Me, let the tender office long engage,...reposing age, With lenient arts extend a mother's breath, Hike languor smile, and smooth the bed of death, Eiplore the thought, explain the asking eye, And keep...

...3. Hence BREATH, and the words equivalent to it in other languages, are transferred to denote life. With lenient arts extend a mother's breath Make languor smile, and smooth the bed of death. Leontes. My true Paulina, We shall not marry until thou bidst us. Paulina. That Shall be when your...

...may each domestic hliss he thine ! Be no unpleasing melancholy mine; Me, let the tender office loug e heady howl, Thrice drain'd, and pour'd the delnge ou his soul, tlis seuse lay hreath, Make languor smile, and smooth the hed of death ; Explore the thonght, explain the asking eye,...

...from kings shall know less joy than I. 0 friend ! may each domestic bliss be thine ! Be no unplcasing 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...

...will ne'er be entombed with the dead While life holds its seat in my heart. M'Comb. DUTY TO PARENTS. Me let the tender office long engage, To rock the...asking eye, And keep awhile one parent from the sky I Pope. THE FALL OF JERICHO. ' Ye warriors of Israel, encompass the wall Of this infidel city, that's...

...is when they labour under infirmities of body or mind, and in the time of their 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 langour smile, and smooth the bed of...

...but blessed with the presence of another, recur to my memory, and I cannot but give them utterance. Me let the tender office long engage, To rock the...asking eye, And keep awhile one parent from the sky.* Thus, my beloved young friends, have I spoken to you, in general terms, of the duty of filial piety,...

...from kings shall know less joy than I. 0 friend ! may each domestic bliss be thine ! Be DO unpleasmg melancholy mine ; Me, let the tender office long engage,...asking eye. And keep awhile one parent from the sky ! On rare» like these if length of days attend. May Heaven, to bless those days, preserve my friend...

...office lone engage, To rock the cradle of reposing a^e ; \Vitli Icmient arts extend 11 mother's brenth. wo miles in lensth and one in breath. The clouds of smoke were diemall, and rcach' unking eye, Aud keep at least one parent from the sky. Prologue to Ihe Satires. ' As a poet, it would...

...Twickenham ; yet his treatment of an aged mother was exemplary, even to admiration — With lenient arts t' extend a mother's breath, Make languor smile, and...asking eye, And keep awhile ONE PARENT from the sky ! In the discharge of this important duty toward the aged, the fair sex have more especially distinguished...