| William Chambers, Robert Chambers - Art - 1846 - 934 pages
...participation ; not an eye But is aweary of thy common sight. -Henry IV. Part I. BLESSING OF SLEEP. SLEEP, gentle sleep, Nature's soft nurse, how have...sleep, liest thou in smoky cribs, Upon uneasy pallets stretching1 thee, And hushed with buzzing night-flies to thy slumber, Than in the perfumed chambers... | |
| George Vandenhoff - Elocution - 1847 - 400 pages
...TO SLEEP.— SHAKS. How many thousands 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... | |
| Lord Henry Home Kames - Criticism - 1847 - 516 pages
...given even to sleep: King Henry. How many thousands of my poorest subjects Are nt this hour asleep! O gentle Sleep, .Nature's soft nurse, how have I frighted...eye-lids down, And steep my senses in forgetfulness 1 Why rather, Sleep, ly'st thpu in smoky cribs, Cpon uneasy pallets strciching thee, And hush'd with... | |
| George Vandenhoff - Elocution - 1847 - 396 pages
...TO SLEEP.— SHAKS. How many thousands of my poorest subjects Are at this hour asleep ! O Sleep, O gentle Sleep, Nature's soft nurse, how have I frighted...wilt weigh my eyelids down, And steep my senses in forgetfulncss ? Why rather, Sleep, liest thou in smoky cribs, Upon uneasy pallets stretching thee,... | |
| 1847 - 214 pages
...silence has heard us invoke the dull yet benignant god, in the beautiful words of the bard of Avon. Nature's soft nurse, how have I frighted thee, That...eyelids down, And steep my senses in forgetfulness. Wonder not then, that " pleasant dreams and slumbers light," should be in our case a subject of record.... | |
| William Shakespeare - 1848 - 498 pages
...o'er-read these letters, And well consider of them : Make good speed. [Exit Page. How many thqusands of my poorest subjects Are at this hour asleep ! —...night-flies to thy slumber ; Than in the perfum'd champers of the great, Under the canopies of coatly state, And lull'd with sounds of sweetest melody... | |
| Reciter - 1848 - 262 pages
...HENRY IV.'t 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 - 1848 - 560 pages
...these letters, And well consider of them. Make good speed. Are at this hour asleep ! — O Sleep, O gentle Sleep, Nature's soft nurse, how have I frighted...smoky cribs, Upon uneasy pallets stretching thee, And hushed with buzzing night-flies to thy slumber, Than in the perfumed chambers of the great, Under the... | |
| Timothy Stone Pinneo - Readers - 1847 - 502 pages
...friends : — such death be mine ! J. MONTGOMEHT. LESSON CCXXVIII. SLEEP.— DEATH. ETERNITY. Sleep. SLEEP, gentle sleep ! Nature's soft nurse, how have...wilt weigh my eyelids down, And steep my senses in forgetful ness 1 Why rather, sleep, liest thou in smoky cribs, Upon uneasy pallets stretching thee,... | |
| Eliza Buckminster Lee - Society of Friends - 1848 - 470 pages
...to the love and wisdom of her Heavenly Father. Again and again would Naomi exclaim, — " O sleep, O gentle sleep ! Nature's soft nurse, how have I frighted...eyelids down, And steep my senses in forgetfulness ? " The loss of sleep induced a general lassitude and irritability of the nervous system, harder to... | |
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