 | John Moore - 1820 - 476 pages
...Sleep into the mouth of this monarch.— O Sleep ! O gentle Sleep ! Nature's soft nurse, how have I frighted thee, That thou no more wilt weigh my eyelids...forgetfulness ? Why rather, Sleep, liest thou in smoky cribj, Upon uneasy pallets stretching thee, And hush'd with busy night-flies to thy slumber ; Than... | |
 | William Scott - Elocution - 1819 - 366 pages
...my poorest subjects Are at this hour asleep ! — O gentle sleep ! Nature's soft nurse ! how have I frighted thee, That thou no more wilt weigh my eyelids...senses in forgetfulness ? Why rathe'r, Sleep, liest thoii in smoky cribs, Upon uneasy pallets stretching thee, And hush'd with buzzing night flies to thy... | |
 | William Scott - Children's stories - 1820 - 398 pages
...subject. JL A Are at this hour asleep ( O gentle sleep ! Nature's soft nurse ! how have I fri|hted fhee, That thou no more wilt weigh my eyelids down. And...in forgetfulness ? Why rather, sleep, liest thou in smoakv cribs Upon uneasy pallets stretching thee, ' And hush'd with buzzing night flies to thy slumber... | |
 | William Scott - Children's stories - 1820 - 422 pages
...of my poorest subjects Are at this hour asleep ! 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 fdrgetfulness ? Why rather, sleep, liest thou in smoky cribs. Upon un.ea.sy pallet's stretching thee,... | |
 | William Scott - Elocution - 1820 - 434 pages
...of my poorest subjects Are at this hour asleep ! O gentle sleep ! Nature's soft nurse ! how ha,ve I frighted thee. That thou no 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 - 508 pages
...The repeated tragic O was probably a playhouse intrusion. STEEVENS, Nature's soft nurse, how have I frighted thee, That thou no more wilt weigh my eyelids...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 - 1821 - 498 pages
...The repeated tragic O was probably a playhouse intrusion. STEEVENS. , Nature's soft nurse, how have I frighted thee, That thou no more wilt weigh my eyelids down, And steep my senses in forge tfulness ? Why rather, sleep, liest thou in smoky cribs, Upon uneasy pallets stretching thee,... | |
 | English poetry - 1822 - 418 pages
...thousands of my poorest subjects Are at this hour asleep ! O gentle Sleep, Nature's soft nurse, how have I frighted thee, That thou no more wilt weigh my eyelids...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... | |
 | John Platts - Conduct of life - 1822 - 844 pages
...of my poorest subjects Are at this hour asleep ! O ! gentle sleep, Nature's soft nurse, how have I frighted thee, That thou no more wilt weigh my eyelids...Upon uneasy pallets stretching thee, And hush'd with busy night-flies to thy slumbers, Than in the perfum'd chambers of the great, Under the canopies of... | |
 | Niccolò Forteguerri - Italian poetry - 1822 - 280 pages
...eloquence." Shakespeare, Ibid. •— • — — " 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 forgetfilness!" Shakespeare, Hen. IV. " In the first rank of these did Zimri stand : A man so various,... | |
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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... 
