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" TIRED Nature's sweet restorer, balmy Sleep ! He, like the world, his ready visit pays Where Fortune smiles ; the wretched he forsakes ; Swift on his downy pinion flies from woe, And lights on lids unsullied with a tear. "
Once a Month: An Illustrated Australasian Magazine ... - Page 300
1885
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The Complaint: Or, Night-thoughts on Life, Death, and Immortality: To which ...

Edward Young - Apologetics - 1756 - 430 pages
...World, his ready Vifit pays^...- -• Where Fortune fmiles; the Wretched he forfakes: • • • W » Swift on his downy Pinions flies from Woe^ -. And lights on Lids unfully'd with a Tear. From Ihort (as ufual) and difturb'd Repofe, - » . ; I wake : How happy they...
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The Beauties of English Poesy, Volume 2

Oliver Goldsmith - English essays - 1767 - 274 pages
...balmy Sleep! He,, like the world, his ready vifit pays Where Fortune f"miles; the wretched he forfakes: Swift on his downy pinions flies from woe, And lights on lids unfully'd with a tear. From fhort (as ufual) and difturb'd repofe, I wake: how happy they, who wake...
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Poems for Young Ladies: In Three Parts : Devotional, Moral, and Entertaining ...

English poetry - 1770 - 268 pages
...balmy fleep ! He, like the world, his ready vifit pays Where/ortune fmiles ; the wretched he forfakes : Swift on his downy pinions flies from woe, And lights on lids unfully'd with a tear. From fhort (as ufual) and diflurb'd rcpofe, I wake : how happy they, who wake...
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The Complaint: Or, Night-thoughts on Life, Death, and Immortality: To which ...

Edward Young - Apologetics - 1775 - 408 pages
...balmy fleep! He, like the world, his ready vifit pays Where fortune fmiles; the wretched he forfakes: Swift on his downy pinions flies from woe, And lights on lids unfully'd with a tear. From fhort (as ufual) and diflurb'd repofe, I wake: how happy they who wake...
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Poems for Young Ladies: In Three Parts. Devotional, Moral, and Entertaining

Oliver Goldsmith - English poetry - 1785 - 568 pages
...balmy deep ! He, like the world, his ready vifit pays Where fortune fmiles ; the wretched he forfakes : Swift on his downy pinions flies from woe, And lights on lids unfully'd with a tear. From fhort (as ufual) and difturb'd repofe, I wake : how happy they, who wake...
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The Bee: Or Literary Weekly Intelligencer, Volume 3

James Anderson - Books, Reviews - 1791 - 412 pages
...his ready vifit}«y8j -M'l *• »'- M " Where fortune fmiles : the wretchcdheforfekes.}- . , ___" Swift, on his downy pinions, flies from woe, •• !•.»•".•" ' And lights on lids unfullied by a tear. " A much indebted mufe, 6 TWt / intrudes, " Amid the fmifes of fortune and of...
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Lectures on Female Education and Manners

John Burton - Education - 1794 - 462 pages
...balmy ileep ! He, like the World, his ready vifits pays Where Fortune fmiles; the wretched he forfakes, Swift on his downy Pinions flies from woe, And lights on lids unfullied with a tear*. ' But not always are the Sons and Daughters of Fortune bleflcd with this happy...
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Bell's Edition, Volumes 87-88

John Bell - English poetry - 1796 - 470 pages
...IMMORTALITY. Humbly inscribed to tbe RIGHT HON. ARTHUR ONSLOW, ESQ. Speaker of the House of Commons. TIR'D Nature's sweet restorer, balmy Sleep ! He, like the...world, his ready visit pays Where fortune smiles; the ivre.ched he forsakes: Swift on his downy pinion flies from wo, From short (as usual) and disturb'd...
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Augusta Fitzherbert; or, Anecdotes of real characters, letters, by ..., Volume 1

Augusta Fitzherbert (fict.name.) - 1796 - 250 pages
...ferenity and happinefs; but " nature's fweet reftorer" came not to me, he ftiuns the wretched, and " Swift on his downy pinions flies from woe " And lights on lids unfully'd with a tear." *"• 1 therefore fought this only comfort, % writing to my Matilda, and pouring...
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Night Thoughts

Edward Young - 1798 - 432 pages
...159 NIGHT VIII. Virtue's Apology 207 NIGHT IX. THE NIGHT I. ON LIFE, DEATH, AND IMMORTALITY. A IR'D Nature's sweet restorer, balmy Sleep! He — like...his downy pinions flies from woe, And lights on lids unsully'd with a tear. 5 From short (as usual) and disturb'd repose I wake — How happy they, who...
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