 | Hobart Caunter - Bible - 1839 - 590 pages
...frighted thee, That thou no more wilt weigh my eyelids down And steep my senses in forgetful ness? Why rather, sleep, liest thou in smoky cribs, Upon...the great, Under the canopies of costly state, And lulled with sounds of sweetest melody? Oh ! thou dull god! why liest thou with the vile, In loathsome... | |
 | William Shakespeare, Thomas Price - 1839 - 478 pages
...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 ? Why rather,...smoky cribs, Upon uneasy pallets stretching thee, And hush'd with buzzing night-flies to thy slumber ; Than in the perfumed chambers of the great, Under... | |
 | Thomas Peregrine Courtenay - Drama - 1840 - 344 pages
...nurse, how have I frighted thee. That thou no more will weigh my eyelids down. And steep my senses hi forgetfulness ? Why rather, sleep, liest thou in smoky cribs, Upon uneasy pallets stretching thee, And hush'd with buzzing night-flies to thy slumber, Than in the perfumed chambers of the great. Under the... | |
 | Wolfgang Clemen - English drama - 1987 - 232 pages
...sleep, 5 Nature's soft nurse, how have I frighted thee, That thou no more wilt weigh my eyelids down, And steep my senses in forgetfulness? Why rather,...smoky cribs, Upon uneasy pallets stretching thee, 10 And husht with buzzing night-flies to thy slumber, Than in the perfmn'd chambers of the great, Under... | |
 | Stephen Greenblatt - Drama - 1988 - 226 pages
...of histrionic rhetoric but as a private meditation, the innermost thoughts of a troubled, weary man: Why rather, sleep, liest thou in smoky cribs, Upon uneasy pallets stretching thee, And hush'd with buzzing night-flies to thy slumber, Than in the perfum'd chambers of the great, Under the... | |
 | George T. Wright - Poetry - 1988 - 366 pages
...successive lines with very different rhythmical contours that nevertheless remained metrically iambic: Why rather, Sleep, liest thou in smoky cribs, Upon uneasy pallets stretching thee, And hush'd with buzzing night-flies to thy slumber (2 Henry 1V. 3.1.9-I1) The second and third lines follow... | |
 | Orson Welles - Performing Arts - 1988 - 356 pages
...frighted thee, / That thou no more wilt weigh mine eyelids down / And steep my senses in forgetful ness? / Why rather, sleep, liest thou in smoky cribs, / Upon...great, / Under the canopies of costly state, / And lulled with sounds of sweetest melody? / O thou dull god, why li'st thou with the vile / 1n loathsome... | |
 | Edith P. Hazen - Literary Criticism - 1992 - 1172 pages
...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? Why rather,...the great. Under the canopies of costly state. And lulled with sound of sweetest melody? (Ill, i) King Henry V 55 Therefore doth heaven divide The state... | |
 | William Shakespeare - Literary Criticism - 1994 - 884 pages
...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? Why rather,...smoky cribs, Upon uneasy pallets stretching thee, 10 And hushed with buzzing night-flies to thy slumber, Than in the perfumed chambers of the great,... | |
 | Jonathan Dollimore, Alan Sinfield - Drama - 1994 - 308 pages
...uneasy pallets stretching thee, And hush'd 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 sound of sweetest melody? (1II.i.9—14) Who knows? perhaps it is even true; perhaps in a society in... | |
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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 ? Why rather, Sleep, liest... 
