 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 thou in smoky cribs, Upon uneasy pallets stretching thee, And hush'd with...  The literary class book; or, Readings in English literature - Page 454by Robert Joseph Sullivan - 1850Full view - About this book
 | William Scott - Elocution - 1820 - 434 pages
...SMoquy on Sleefi.— SHAKESPEARE. HOW many thousand of my poorest subjects Are at this hour asleep ! O gentle sleep ! Nature's soft nurse ! how ha,ve I...more wilt weigh my eyelids down-, And steep my senses inforgetfulness"? Why rather, sleep, liestthou in smoky cribs, Upon uneasy pallets stretching thee,... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1821 - 508 pages
...reads: " O sleep, O gentle sleep." The repeated tragic O was probably a playhouse intrusion. STEEVENS, Nature's soft nurse, how have I frighted thee, That...with sounds of sweetest melody ? O thou dull god, why liest thou with the vile, In loathsome beds ; and leav'st the kingly couch, A watch-case, or a... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1821 - 498 pages
...frighted thee, That thou no more wilt weigh my eyelids down, And steep my senses in forge tfulness ? Why rather, sleep, liest thou in smoky cribs, Upon...with sounds of sweetest melody ? O thou dull god, why liest thou with the vile, In loathsome beds ; and leav'st the kingly couch, A watch-case, or a... | |
 | English poetry - 1822 - 418 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...with sounds of sweetest melody ? O thou dull God, why liest thou with the vile, In loathsome beds, and leav'st the kingly couch A watch-case, or a common... | |
 | John Platts - Conduct of life - 1822 - 844 pages
...of King Henry the Fourth : — How many thousands of my poorest subjects Are at this hour asleep ! O ! gentle sleep, Nature's soft nurse, how have I...Upon uneasy pallets stretching thee, And hush'd with busy night-flies to thy slumbers, Than in the perfum'd chambers of the great, Under the canopies of... | |
 | Niccolò Forteguerri - Italian poetry - 1822 - 280 pages
...the rattling tongue Of saucy and audacious eloquence." Shakespeare, Ibid. •— • — — " Sleep, gentle sleep, Nature's soft nurse, how have I frighted...wilt weigh my eyelids down, And steep my senses in forgetfilness!" Shakespeare, Hen. IV. " In the first rank of these did Zimri stand : A man so various,... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1823 - 372 pages
...speed. — [Ex. Page. How many thousand of my poorest subjects Are at this hour asleep ! — Sleep, gentle sleep, Nature's soft nurse, how have I frighted...with sounds of sweetest melody ? O thou dull god, why liest thou with the vile, In loathsome beds ; and leav'st the kingly couch. A watch-case, or a... | |
 | William Enfield - 1823 - 412 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 perkim'd chambers of the Great, Under the canopies of costly state,. And lull'd with sounds of sweetest... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1823 - 590 pages
...sleep, f Nature's soft nurse, how have I frighted thee, t " O sleep, O gentle sleep,"—MA LONE. £ 3 That thou no more wilt weigh my eyelids down, And...with buzzing night-flies to thy slumber; Than in the perfiun'd chambers of the great, Under the canopies of costly state, And lulPd with sounds of sweetest... | |
 | William Scott - Elocution - 1823 - 396 pages
...lie»t 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...lull'd with sounds of sweetest melody? O thou dull god ! Why liest thou with the vile, In loathsome beds, and leav'st the kingly couch A watchcase *to a common... | |
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