 | William Scott - Children's stories - 1820 - 422 pages
...Soliloquy on Sleefi.— SHAKESPEARE. HOW many thousand of my poorest subjects Are at this hour asleep ! O gentle sleep ! Nature's soft nurse \ how have I frighted...wilt weigh my eyelids down, And steep my senses in fdrgetfulness ? Why rather, sleep, liest thou in smoky cribs. Upon un.ea.sy pallet's stretching thee,... | |
 | William Scott - Elocution - 1820 - 434 pages
...SMoquy on Sleefi.— SHAKESPEARE. HOW many thousand of my poorest subjects Are at this hour asleep ! O gentle sleep ! Nature's soft nurse ! how ha,ve I frighted...more wilt weigh my eyelids down-, And steep my senses inforgetfulness"? Why rather, sleep, liestthou in smoky cribs, Upon uneasy pallets stretching thee,... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1821 - 510 pages
...Enter King HENRY in his Nightgown, with a Page. K. HEN. Go, call the earls of Surrey and of Warwick ; But, ere they come, bid them o'er-read these letters,...of my poorest subjects .. Are at this hour asleep !-rO sleep, O gentle sleep8, 6 O run, Doll, run ; run, good Doll.] Thus the folio. The quarto reads... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1821 - 508 pages
...reads: " O sleep, O gentle sleep." The repeated tragic O was probably a playhouse intrusion. STEEVENS, Nature's soft nurse, how have I frighted thee, That...eyelids down, And steep my senses in forgetfulness ? Why rather, sleep, liest thou in smoky cribs, Upon uneasy pallets stretching thee, And hush'd with... | |
 | 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,... | |
 | English poetry - 1822 - 418 pages
...SOLILOQUY ON SLEEP. SHAKSPEARE. How many thousands of my poorest subjects Are at this hour asleep ! O gentle Sleep, Nature's soft nurse, how have I frighted...eyelids down, And steep my senses in forgetfulness ! Why rather, Sleep, liest thou in smoky cribs, Upon uneasy pallets stretching thee, And hush'd with... | |
 | John Platts - Conduct of life - 1822 - 844 pages
...King Henry the Fourth : — How many thousands of my poorest subjects Are at this hour asleep ! O ! gentle sleep, Nature's soft nurse, how have I frighted...eyelids down, And steep my senses in forgetfulness ? Why rather, sleep, liest thou in smoky cribs, Upon uneasy pallets stretching thee, And hush'd with... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1823 - 372 pages
...they come, bid them o'er-read these letters, And well consider of them : Make good speed. — [Ex. Page. How many thousand of my poorest subjects Are...eyelids down, And steep my senses in forgetfulness ? Why rather, sleep, liest thou in smoky cribs, Upon uneasy pallets stretching thee, And hush'd with... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1823 - 590 pages
...King HENRY in his Nightgown, ivith a Page. K. Hai. Go, call the earls of Surrey and: of Warwick; fiut, ere they come, bid them o'er-read these letters, And...Are at this hour asleep ! — Sleep, gentle sleep, f Nature's soft nurse, how have I frighted thee, t " O sleep, O gentle sleep,"—MA LONE. £ 3 That... | |
 | 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... | |
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How many thousand of my poorest subjects Are at this hour 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... 
