| Jonathan Barber - 1828 - 266 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...in forgetfulness? Why rather, Sleep, liest thou in 'oky cribs, Upon uneasy pallets stretching thee, And hushed with buzzing night-flies to thy slumber,... | |
| Ebenezer Porter - 1828 - 452 pages
...whatever. One dead uniform silence reigned over the whole region." Burke. 72. Apostrophe to sleep. Sleep, gentle sleep, Nature's soft nurse, how have...eyelids down, And steep my senses in forgetfulness ? 5 Why rather, sleep, liest thou in smoky cribs, Upon uneasy pallets stretching thee, And hush'd with... | |
| William Shakespeare - 1828 - 346 pages
...speed. [Exit Page. How many thousand of my poorest subjects Areatthisnourasleep! — O sleep, O gtntle sleep, Nature's soft nurse, how have I frighted thee,...And steep my senses in forgetfulness? Why rather, aleep, liest thou in smoky cribs, Upon uneasy pallets stretching thee, And Ini-hM with buzzing night-flies... | |
| England - 1829 - 282 pages
...which accompanied them, and to change places with the lowest of his subjects. " How many thousands of my poorest subjects Are, at this hour, asleep!...smoky cribs, Upon uneasy pallets stretching thee, I 3 And hushed with buzzing night-flies to thy slumber; Than in the perfum'd chambers of the great,... | |
| William Scott - 1829 - 420 pages
...Soliloquy on Sleep. — SHAKESPEARE. How many thousands of my poorest subjects Are at this hour asleep ! O gentle sleep ! Nature's soft nurse! how have I frighted...in forgetfulness ? Why rather, sleep, liest thou in smoaky cribs, Upon uneasy pallets stretching thee, And hush'd with buzzing night flies to thy slumber.... | |
| William Shakespeare, George Steevens - 1829 - 506 pages
...my poorest subjects Are at this hour asleep ! — bleep, gentle sleep, Nature's soft nurse, how hare I frighted thee, That thou no more wilt weigh my eyelids...thou in smoky cribs, Upon uneasy pallets stretching tliee, And hush'd with buzzing night- flies to thy slumber ; Than in the perfum'd chambers of the great,... | |
| Thomas Curtis (of Grove house sch, Islington) - 432 pages
...forgotten, as I shall be, And sleep in dull cold marble, where no mention Of Hie must more be heard. Id, O gentle sleep ! Nature's soft nurse, how have I frighted...wilt weigh my eyelids down, And steep my senses in forgetfutneu ! Id. I have read in ancient authors invitations to lay aside care and anxiety, and give... | |
| John Thurston - 1830 - 176 pages
...Fa/. I do here walk before thee, like a sow that hath overwhelmed all her litter but one. K. Henry. How many thousand of my poorest subjects Are at this...eye-lids down, And steep my senses in forgetfulness ? Act III. Scene I. Dol. I'll tell thee what, thou damned tripe-visaged rascal; an the child I now... | |
| 1830 - 566 pages
...to Sleep. ** " Oh Sleep — oh gentle Sleep — Nature's soft nurse — how have I frighted thee 1 That thou, no more, wilt weigh my eyelids down And...And hush'd with buzzing night-flies to thy slumber, &c." But for some redeeming passages in Jonson's masques, and occasionally in his plays, we should... | |
| 1830 - 570 pages
...to Sleep. . " Oh Sleep—oh gentle SleepNature's soft nurse—how h'ave I frighted thee 1 That thon, no more, wilt weigh my eyelids down And steep my senses...And hush'd with buzzing night-flies to thy slumber, &c." But for some redeeming passages in Jonson's masques, and 'occasionally in his plays, we should... | |
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