 | Niccolò Forteguerri - Italian poetry - 1822 - 280 pages
...from the rattling tongue Of saucy and audacious eloquence." Shakespeare, Ibid. •— • — — " Sleep, gentle sleep, Nature's soft nurse, how have...wilt weigh my eyelids down, And steep my senses in forgetfilness!" Shakespeare, Hen. IV. " In the first rank of these did Zimri stand : A man so various,... | |
 | William Enfield - 1823 - 412 pages
...HENRY IV'S SOLILOQUY ON SLEEP. How many thousands of my poorest subjects Are at this hour asleep ! O gentle Sleep, Nature's soft nurse, how have I frighted...with buzzing night-flies to thy slumber, Than in the perkim'd chambers of the Great, Under the canopies of costly state,. And lull'd with sounds of sweetest... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1823 - 590 pages
...sleep, f Nature's soft nurse, how have I frighted thee, t " O sleep, O gentle sleep,"—MA LONE. £ 3 That thou no more wilt weigh my eyelids down, And...with buzzing night-flies to thy slumber; Than in the perfiun'd chambers of the great, Under the canopies of costly state, And lulPd with sounds of sweetest... | |
 | 1823 - 594 pages
...subjects Are, at this hour, asleep! Sleep, gentle Sleep, Nature's soft nurse, how have I frighted thoe, That thou no more wilt weigh' my eye-lids down, And...thou in smoky cribs, Upon uneasy pallets stretching I hce, And hush'd with buzzing night-flies to tliy slumber; Than in the perfum'd chambers of the great,... | |
 | English literature - 1837 - 540 pages
...the vile ?" for never was human conception more sweetly embodied than in the opening apostrophe, " Sleep ! gentle sleep ! Nature's soft nurse, how have...eyelids down And steep my senses in forgetfulness ?" But indeed the whole speech is so full of truth and beauty, comes home so closely to the feelings... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1824 - 518 pages
...gentle sleep, Natur*1'» sou nurse, how have I frighted thee, That thou no more wilt weigh my eyelid* down, And steep my senses in forgetfulness? Why rather,...with buzzing night-flies to thy slumber ; Than in the prrfnm'd chambers of the great, Under the canopies of costly state, And luird with sounds of sweetest... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1824 - 882 pages
...them : make good speed. — [Exit Page. How many thousand of my poorest subjects Are at this h»ur owder ! they'll fill a pit, as well as better : tush..., mortal men, mortal men ! //,,,,'. Ay, but, sir forgRtfulness ? Why rather, sleep, liest thou in smoky cribs, Upon uneasy pallets stretching thce,... | |
 | William Scott - Diccion - 1825 - 382 pages
...IV s Soliloquy on Steep. HOW many thousands of my poorest subjects Are at this hour asleep ! — O gentle sleep ! , Nature's soft nurse ! how have I...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... | |
 | John Thurston - 1825 - 308 pages
...walk before thee, like a sow that hath overwhelmed all her litter but one. Act I. Seme II. K. Henry. How many thousand of my poorest subjects ! Are at...eye•lids down, And steep my senses in forgetfulness ? Act III. Scene I. P. Henry, [puts the crown on his head.] Lo, here it sits, — Which heaven shall... | |
 | William Shakespeare, William Dodd - 1827 - 362 pages
...feeder, art so full of him, That thou provok'st thyself to cast him up. ACT III. APOSTROPHE TO SLEEP. Sleep, gentle sleep, Nature's soft nurse, how have...thee, -. And hush'd with buzzing night-flies to thy slumberThan in the perfum'd chambers of the great, 'Under the canopies of costly state, And lull'd... | |
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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... 
