How many thousand of my poorest subjects Are at this hour asleep ! — O Sleep, O gentle sleep, Nature's soft nurse, how have I frighted thee, That thou no more wilt weigh my eyelids down, And steep my senses in forgetfulness ? Why rather, sleep, liest... Lectures ... to working men - Page 21by Arthur Mursell - 1859Full view - About this book
| Mrs. Griffith (Elizabeth), Elizabeth Griffith - Didactic drama, English - 1775 - 626 pages
...fmoky crib*, Upon uneafy pallets ftretching iliee, And hufhed with burring night-flits to thy (lumber, Than in the perfumed chambers of the great, Under the canopies of collly ftate, And lulled with founds of fweeteft Jieiody ?, O thou doll god, why licit thou with the... | |
| James Boswell - Hebrides (Scotland) - 1786 - 552 pages
...is indeed pointed at the top ; but one side of it is larger than the other'.' Another mountain I 1 'Why rather, sleep, liest thou in smoky cribs, Upon uneasy pallets stretching thee,' &c. 2 Henry 1 V, act iii. sc. I. 1 Spain, in 1719, sent a strong force under the Duke of Ormond to... | |
| Civil rights - 1795 - 432 pages
...hour asleep ! O gentle sleep, Nature's soft nurse, how have I frighted thee, That thou no more wilt weigh my eye-lids down, And steep my senses in forgetfulness ! Why rather, Sleep, lays't thou in smoky cribs, Upon uneasy pallets stretching thee, And hush'd with buzzing night flies... | |
| 1851 - 592 pages
...asleep ! — Sleep, gentle sleep ! Nature's soft nurse, how have I frighted thee, That thou no more wilt weigh my eyelids down, And steep my senses in forgetfulness...uneasy pallets stretching thee, And hush'd with buzzing night Шее to thy slumber, Than in the perfum'd chambers of the great, Under the canopies of costly... | |
| William Shakespeare - 1803 - 632 pages
...asleep!—Sleep, gentle sleep, Nature's soft nurse, how have I frighted thee. That thou no more wilt weigh my eyelids down, And steep my senses in forgetfulness?...with buzzing night-flies to thy slumber; Than in the perfum'd chambers of the great, Under the canopies of costly state, And lull'd with sounds of sweetest... | |
| William Shakespeare - 1803 - 494 pages
...asleep ! — Sleep, gentle sleep, Nature's soft nurse, how have 'I frighted thee, That thou no more.wilt weigh my eyelids down, And steep my senses in forgetfulness...smoky cribs, Upon uneasy pallets stretching thee, And bush'd with buzzing night-flies to thy slumber ; Than in the perfum'd chambers of the great, Under... | |
| CHARLES MAYO, L.L.B. - 1804 - 582 pages
...Sleep, nature's soft nurse, how have I frighted thee, that thou no more wilt weigh my eyelids dpwn, and steep my senses in forgetfulness ? Why rather,...smoky cribs, upon uneasy pallets stretching thee, and hushed with buzzing night-flies to thy slumber; than in the perfumed chambers of the great, under the... | |
| William Enfield - 1804 - 418 pages
...my eye-lids down, And steep my senses in forgetfulness I "Why rather , Sleep , lay'st thou in smoaky cribs ? Upon uneasy pallets stretching thee, And hush'd...with buzzing night-flies to thy slumber} Than in the perfum'd chambers of the Great , Under the canopies, of costly state , And lull'd with sounds of sweetest... | |
| William Shakespeare - 1805 - 480 pages
...asleep ! — Sleep, gentle sleep, Nature's soft nurse, how have I frighted thee, That thou no more wilt weigh my eye-lids down, And steep my senses in forgetfulness...with buzzing night-flies to thy slumber; Than in the perfum'd chambers of the great, Under the canopies of costly state, And lull'd with sounds of sweetest... | |
| William Shakespeare - 1805 - 488 pages
...asleep ! — Sleep, gentle sleep, Nature's soft nurse, how have I frighted thee, That thou no more wilt weigh my eye-lids down, And steep my senses in forgetfulness...with buzzing night-flies to thy slumber; Than in the perfum'd chambers of the great, Under the canopies of costly state, And lull'd with sounds of sweetest... | |
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