Come Sleep! O Sleep, the certain knot of peace, The baiting-place of wit, the balm of woe, The poor man's wealth, the prisoner's release, The indifferent judge between the high and low! Elia - Page 142by Charles Lamb - 1836Full view - About this book
| Philip Sidney - 1724 - 270 pages
...wooed fleep again ; But him, her hoft, that unkind gueft had flain. XXXIX. Gome, fleep : O fleep ! the certain knot of peace, The baiting place of wit, the balm of woe, The poor man's wealth, the prifoner's releafe, Th' indifferent judge between the high and low ; With fhield of proof, fhield me... | |
| William Shakespeare - 1788 - 480 pages
...Wives of Windsor : " Come sleepe, O sleepe, the certain knot of peace, " The bathing place of wits, the balm of woe, " The poor man's wealth, the prisoner's..." The indifferent judge between the high and low." . The late Mr. Gray had, perhaps, our author's "death «f each day's life" in his thoughts, when he... | |
| 1876 - 592 pages
...iii. 1 ; Macbeth, iii. 4 ; Night- Thoughts, book i. ' The certain knot of peace, The baiting-place of wit, the balm of woe, The poor man's wealth, the...release, The indifferent judge between the high and low.' To what extent subsequent inspiration has been assisted by his exquisite sonnet, commencing ' With... | |
| William Shakespeare - 1806 - 434 pages
...more .'7 " Come sleepe, O sleepe, the certain knot of peace, "The hathing place of wits, the halm, of woe, "The poor man's Wealth, the prisoner's release, "The indifferent judge hetween the high and low." ^o also, in The famous Historie of George Lord Fauconhridgt, ^tc. hl. l.... | |
| Arthur Aikin - 1809 - 832 pages
...lovers scorn whom that love doth possess ? Do they call virtue there ungratefulness ? Come sleep, О sleep, the certain knot of peace, The baiting place...man's wealth, the prisoner's release, The indifferent jvdge between the high and low ; Whh shield of proof shield me front out the preasin Of those tierce... | |
| Thomas Campbell - 1819 - 420 pages
...ones. TO SLEEP. FROM THE ARCADIA. COME sleep, O sleep, the certain knot of peace, The baiting-place of wit, the balm of woe ; The poor man's wealth, the prisoner's release, Th' indifferent judge between the high and low. With shield of proof shield me from out the prease... | |
| Rowland Freeman - 1821 - 846 pages
...all my thoughts have neither stop nor start, But only Stella's eyes, and Stella's heart. Sonnet 39. Come sleep, — O sleep ! the certain knot of peace,...low; With shield of proof, shield me from out the press Of those fierce darts despair at me doth throw : O make in me those civil wars to cease ; I will... | |
| William Shakespeare - 1821 - 528 pages
...Wives of Windsor ? " Come sleepe, O sleepe, the certain knot of peace, " The bathing place of wits, the balm of woe, " The poor man's wealth, the prisoner's..." The indifferent judge between the high and low." So also, in The Famous Historie of George Lord Fuuconbridge, &c. bl. l. " Yet sleep, the comforter... | |
| 1823 - 696 pages
...obscured by transposition. He means, Do they call ungratefulness there a virtue ? п. Come, Sleep, О Sleep, the certain knot of peace, The baiting place...and low; With shield of proof shield me from out the presse * Of those fierce darts despair at me doth throw; 0 make in me those civil wars to cease : 1... | |
| John Johnstone (of Edinburgh.) - 1828 - 600 pages
...love. TO SLEEP. [From the Arcadia.] COME, sleep, O sleep, the certain knot of peace, The baiting-place of wit, the balm of woe ; The poor man's wealth, the prisoner's release, Th' indifferent judge between the high and low. With shield of proof shield me from out the prease... | |
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