 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
 | William Shakespeare - Drama - 2000 - 180 pages
...forgetfulness? Why rather, sleep, liest thou in smoky cribs, 9 Upon uneasy pallets stretching thee 10 And hushed with buzzing night-flies to thy slumber, Than in the perfumed chambers of the great, 12 Under the' canopies of costly state, 13 374 peasecod-time early summer, when sweetpeas bloom and... | |
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 | Orson Welles - Drama - 2001 - 342 pages
...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 hushed with buzzing night-flies to thy slumber, Than in the perfumed chambers of the great, Under the... | |
 | Linda Woodbridge - Literary Criticism - 2001 - 360 pages
...respected. (2:39-4o) In a similar vein, a sleepless Henry IV comes close to saying "power is not worth it": Why, rather, sleep, liest thou in smoky cribs, Upon uneasy pallets stretching thee, Than in the perfum'd chambers of the great, Under the canopies of costly state? (2^4 3.1.9-13) New... | |
 | George Wilson Knight - Drama - 1958 - 336 pages
...Richard III and Richard II, with strength and weakness, determination and repentance, intermingling: Why rather, sleep, liest thou in smoky cribs, Upon...Under the canopies of costly state, And lull'd with sound of sweetest melody? O thou dull god, why liest thou with the vile In loathsome beds, and leav'st... | |
 | William Shakespeare - Drama - 1989 - 1286 pages
...frighted thee, That thou no more wilt weigh my eyelids down, And steep my senses in forgetfulness? Publishing Group, Incorporated husht with buzzing night-flies to thy slumber, Than in the perfumed chambers of the great, Under the... | |
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