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" All things are hush'd as Nature's self lay dead, The mountains seem to nod their drowsy head : The little birds in dreams their songs repeat, And sleeping flowers beneath the night dews sweat. Even lust and envy sleep... "
An Essay on English Poetry: With Notices of the British Poets - Page 115
by Thomas Campbell - 1848 - 436 pages
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Macbeth. King John

William Shakespeare - 1788 - 480 pages
...poetry can produce, has been adopted by Dryden in his Conquest of Mexico : " All tilings are Imsh'd as Nature's self lay dead, " The mountains seem to...birds in dreams their songs repeat, " And sleeping flow'rs beneath the night dews sweat. " Even lust and envy sleep !" These lines, though so well known,...
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The Plays of William Shakespeare ...

William Shakespeare - 1803 - 756 pages
...produce, has been adopted by Dryden in his Conquest of Mexico : All things are hush'd as Nature's sctf lay dead, The mountains seem to nod their drowsy head...little birds in dreams their songs repeat, And sleeping flow' rs beneath the night dews sweat. Even lust and envy sleep ! These lines, though so well known,...
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The Plays of William Shakespeare : Accurately Printed from the ..., Volume 4

William Shakespeare - 1805 - 442 pages
...the most striking that poetry can produce, has been adopted by Dryden, in his Conquest of Mexico: ' All things are hush'd as Nature's self lay dead, '...birds in dreams their songs repeat, ' And sleeping flow'rs beneath the night dews sweat. ' Even lust and envy sleep !" These lines, though so well known,...
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The plays of William Shakspeare, pr. from the text of the ..., Volume 4

William Shakespeare - 1805 - 454 pages
...the most striking that poetry can produce, has been adopted by Dryden, in his Conquest of Mexico : All things are hush'd as Nature's self lay dead, The...little birds in dreams their songs repeat, And sleeping flow'rs beneath the night dews sweat. Even lust and envy sleep !" These lines, though so well known,...
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The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL.D.

Samuel Johnson - 1806 - 376 pages
...perhapi the most striking that poetry can produce, has been adopted by Dryden in his conquest of Mexico. All things are hush'd as nature's self lay dead, The...little birds in dreams their songs repeat, And sleeping flow'rs beneath the night-dews sweat) Even lust and envy sleep ! These lines, though so well known,...
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The Plays of William Shakespeare ...: With the Corrections and ..., Volume 7

William Shakespeare - 1806 - 428 pages
...transcrihed, that the contrast hetween them and thls passage of Shakspcare may he more accurately ohserved. ' All things are hush'd as Nature's self lay dead, ' The mountains seem to ncdtheir drowsy head ; ' The little hirds in dreams their songs repeat, ' And sleeping flow'rs heneath...
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The plays of William Shakspeare, with the corrections and illustr ..., Volume 7

William Shakespeare - 1806 - 432 pages
...most striking that poetry can produce, has heen adopted hy Dryden, in his Conqueat of Mexico • " All things are hush'd as Nature's self lay dead, " The mountains seem to ncd their drowsy head ; " The little hirds in dreams their songs repeat, " And sleeping flow'rs heneath...
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Flowers of literature; for 1801 & 1802(-1805): or, Characteristic ..., Volume 4

Flowers of literature - 1807 - 626 pages
...celebration of mass might take place in secret. K.' DESCRIPTION OF NISHT. " All things are bush'd, as Nature's self lay dead, The mountains seem to nod...And sleeping flowers beneath the night-dew sweat." DHYDEX. How often have I heard the morning described by the poet and the philosopher in all its glowing...
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The Works of John Dryden: Now First Collected ...

John Dryden, Walter Scott - 1808 - 486 pages
...fate. [Exit. SCENE II.— A Camp. Enter CORTEZ alone, in a night-gown. Cwt. All things are hushed, as nature's self lay dead; The mountains seem to nod...love denies Rest to my soul, and slumber to my eyes. Three days I promised to attend my doom, And two long days and nights are yet to come : — Tis sure...
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The Works of Samuel Johnson, L.L.D.

Samuel Johnson - 1809 - 488 pages
...the most striking that poetry can produce, has been adopted by Dry den in his Conquest of Mexico. • All things are hush'd as nature's self lay dead, The...little birds in dreams their songs repeat, And sleeping flow "re beneath the night dews sweat* Even lust and envy sleep ! • These lines, though so well known,...
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