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" Bid her be all that cheers or softens life, The tender sister, daughter, friend, and wife: Bid her be all that makes mankind adore ; Then view this marble, and be vain no more ! Yet still her charms in breathing paint engage; 55 Her modest cheek shall... "
The works of sir Joshua Reynolds. To which is prefixed an account of the ... - Page 288
by sir Joshua Reynolds - 1801
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Memoirs of the Court of England: During the Reigns of William and ..., Volume 2

John Heneage Jesse - Great Britain - 1901 - 384 pages
...embalm the dead; Call round her tomb each object of desire, Each purer frame informed with purer fire; Bid her be all that cheers or softens life, The tender...adore, Then view this marble, and be vain no more." The fourth and youngest daughter of the Duke of Marlborough was Lady Mary Churchill, born in 1689,...
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The Complete Poetical Works of Alexander Pope

Alexander Pope - English poetry - 1903 - 704 pages
...the dead; Call round her tomb each object of desire. Each purer frame inform'd with purer fire ; 50 Bid her be all that cheers or softens life, The tender sister, danghter, friend, and wife; Bid her be all that makes mankind adore, Then view this marble, and be...
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The Poems of Alexander Pope: A One-volume Edition of the Twickenham Text ...

Alexander Pope - Poetry - 1963 - 884 pages
...tomb each object of desire, Each purer frame inform'd with purer fire : 50 Bid her be all that chears or softens life, The tender sister, daughter, friend...more! Yet still her charms in breathing paint engage; 55 Her modest cheek shall warm a future age. Beauty, frail flow'r that ev'ry season fears, Blooms in...
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The Greville Memoirs: A Journal of the Reigns of King George IV. and King ...

Charles Greville - Great Britain - 1874 - 458 pages
...her face. Call round her tomb each object of desire, Each purer frame informed by purer fire ; Let her be all that cheers or softens life, The tender...adore, Then view this marble, and be vain no more. June 24th. — The King dined at Devonshire House last Thursday se'nnight. Lady Conyngham had on her...
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International Encyclopædic Dictionary: A New Original and Exhaustive Work ...

Robert Hunter - Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1897 - 910 pages
...sympathy ; affecting, pathetic. 8. Gentle, mild, kind ; unwilling to hurt ; loving, fond. " Bid her he nil that cheers or softens life. The tender sister, daughter, friend, and wife." Pop* : Spittle to Mr. Jmnt, 40. 9. Using language or having a style charaoterized by a certain sonneas...
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