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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... "
The Plays of William Shakespeare: With Notes of Various Commentators - Page 208
by William Shakespeare - 1806
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The Pleasures of Human Life, Examined and Enumerated: With an Entertaining ...

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...steep my senses in forgetfulness ? Why rather, sleep, liest thou in smoky cribs, Upon uneasy pallets stretching thee, And hush'd with busy night-flies to...
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The Poetical Common-place Book: Consisting of an Original Selection of ...

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...steep my senses in forgetfulness ! Why rather, Sleep, liest thou in smoky cribs, Upon uneasy pallets stretching thee, And hush'd with buzzing night-flies...
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The First Canto of Ricciardetto, Volume 1

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,...
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The Dramatic Works of William Shakespeare, in Ten Volumes: King John ...

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...steep my senses in forgetfulness ? Why rather, sleep, liest thou in smoky cribs, Upon uneasy pallets stretching thee, And hush'd with buzzing night-flies...
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The Speaker: Or Miscellaneous Pieces, Selected from the Best English Writers ...

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...steep my senses in forgetfulness ? Why rather, Sleep, liest thou in smoky cribs,. Upon uneasy pallets stretching thee, And hush'd with buzzing night-flies...
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The Lady's Magazine and Museum, Volume 11

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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The Plays, Volume 5

William Shakespeare - 1824 - 422 pages
...consider of them : Make good speed. [Exit Page. How many thousands of my poorest subjects Are at thk hour asleep ! — Sleep, gentle sleep, Nature's soft...steep my senses in forgetfulness ? Why rather, sleep, liest thou in smoky cribs, Upon uneasy pallets stretching thee, And hush'd with buzzing night-flies...
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A dictionary of quotations from the British poets, by the author of The ...

British poets - 1824 - 676 pages
...is a comforter. Weariness How many thousands of my poorest subjects Are at this hour asleep ! — O gentle sleep, Nature's soft nurse, how have I frighted...steep my senses in forgetfulness ? Why rather, Sleep, liest thou in smoky cribs, Upon uneasy pallets stretching thee, And hush'd with buzzing night-flies...
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The Family Shakspeare ... in which Nothing is Added to the Original Text ...

William Shakespeare - 1825 - 438 pages
...But, ere they come, bid them o'er-read these letters, And well consider of them : Make good speed. — How many thousand of my poorest subjects Are at this...steep my senses in forgetfulness ? Why rather, sleep, liest thou in smoky cribs, Upon uneasy pallets stretching thee, And hush'd with buzzing night-flies...
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Illustrations of Shakespeare: Comprised in Two Hundred and Thirty Vignette ...

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...
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