 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 thou...  Horace: with notes by C. Girdlestone and W.A. Osborne - Page 81by Quintus Horatius Flaccus - 1848 - 12 pagesFull view - About this book
 | John Moore, Robert Anderson - English literature - 1820
...frighted thee. That thou no more wilt weigh ray 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 busy night.flies to thy slumber ; Than in the perfum'd chambers of the great, Under the canopies of... | |
 | William Scott (teacher, Edinburgh.) - Elocution - 1819 - 360 pages
...wilt weigh my eyelids down, And steep my senses in forgetfulness ? Why rathe'r, Sleep, liest thoii 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 canopies of costly... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1821
...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 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 sounds of sweetest... | |
 | English poetry - 1822 - 388 pages
...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...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 sounds of sweetest... | |
 | John Platts - Conduct of life - 1822 - 764 pages
...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 busy night-flies to thy slumbers, Than in the perfum'd chambers of the great, Under the canopies of... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1823
...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...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 sounds of sweetest... | |
 | William Enfield - 1823 - 346 pages
...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...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
...sleep,"—MA LONE. £ 3 That thou no more wilt weigh my eyelids down, And steep my senses in forgetfulness ? Why rather, sleep, liest thou in smoky cribs, Upon...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 Shakespeare - 1823
...(righted thee. That thou no more wilt weigh my eyelids done. And steep my senses in forgetl illness ? as the lightning in the colliedt night, That, in a spleen, unfolds both Imsli'cl with buzzing night-flies to th> slumber ; Than in the perfum'd chambers of the great, Under... | |
 | William Scott - Elocution - 1823 - 372 pages
...no more wilt weigh my eyelids down, And steep my senses in forgetfulness? Why rather, Sleep, 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 great, Under the canopies of costly... | |
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