 | 1830 - 584 pages
...Act 5, Scene last. Or those exquisite lines of Shakspeare, in his address to Sleep. " Oh Sleep — oh gentle Sleep — Nature's soft nurse — how have...wilt weigh my eyelids down And steep my senses in forgetfuluess ! Why rather, sleep, liest thou in smoky cribs Upon uneasy paflets stretching thee, And... | |
 | Ebenezer Porter - Elocution - 1830 - 420 pages
...whatever. One dead uniform silence reigned over the whole region." Burke. 72. Apostrophe to Sleep. Sleep, gentle sleep, - * Nature's soft nurse, how...thou no more wilt weigh my eyelids down, And steep my serlses in for'getfulness f • • 5 Why rather, sleep, liest thou in smoky crib's, Upon uneasy pallets... | |
 | James Hedderwick - Oratory - 1833 - 232 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 perfumed chambers of the great, Under the canopies of costly state, And lull'd with sounds of sweetest... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1833 - 522 pages
...good speed. [Exit Pu*/e. 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...with buzzing night-flies to thy slumber ; Than in the perfumed chambers of the great, Under the canopies of costly state, And lull'd with sounds of sweetest... | |
 | English literature - 1833 - 642 pages
...APOSTROPHE TO SLEEP. " SLEEP, gentle sleep, Nature's soft nurse, how have I frighted thee, That tliou no more wilt weigh my eyelids down And steep my senses...with buzzing night-flies to thy slumber, Than in the perFumed chambers of the great, Under the canopies of costly state, And lull'd with sounds of sweetest... | |
 | Lord Henry Home Kames - Criticism - 1833 - 518 pages
...given even to sleep: King Henry. How many thousands of my poorest subjects Are at this hour asleep ! O gentle Sleep, Nature's soft nurse, how have I frighted...wilt weigh my eye-lids down, And steep my senses in forgetfulncss 1 Why rather, Sleep, ly'st thou in smoky cribs, Upon uneasy pallets stretching thee,... | |
 | 1859 - 980 pages
...Henry's familiar soliloquy ': "How many thousands of my poorest subjects Are at this hour asleep! 0 gentle sleep! Nature's soft nurse! How have I frighted...eyelids down, And steep my senses in forgetfulness? Wliy rather, sleep, liest thou in smoky cribs, Upon uneasy pallets stretching thee, And hush'd with... | |
 | Author of The young man's own book - American poetry - 1836 - 336 pages
...frighted thee, That thou no more wilt weigh my eye-lids down, And steep my senses in forgelfulness ! Why rather, sleep, liest thou in smoky cribs, Upon...with buzzing night-flies to thy slumber ; Than in the pcrfum'd chambers of the great, Under the canopies of cosily state, And lull'd with sounds of sweetest... | |
 | British and foreign young men's society - 1837 - 556 pages
...combine to give an exquisite pathos to the midnight soliloquy in which he thus apostrophises sleep. " How many thousand of my poorest subjects Are at this...wilt weigh my eyelids down, And steep my senses in forgetfuluess ? Why rather sleep, liest thou in smoky cribs, Upon uneasy pallets stretching thee, And... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1838 - 484 pages
...lock'd up in sleep, as guiltless labour When it lies starkly3 in the traveller's bones. 5— iv. 2. 157 Sleep, gentle sleep, Nature's soft nurse, how have...with buzzing night-flies to thy slumber ; Than in the perfumed chambers of the great, Under the canopies of costly state, And lull'd with sounds of sweetest... | |
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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... 
