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" 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... "
The Dramatic Works of William Shakespeare, in Ten Volumes: King John ... - Page 300
by William Shakespeare - 1823
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Chambers's Miscellany of Useful and Entertaining Tracts

William Chambers, Robert Chambers - 1846 - 934 pages
...participation ; not an eye But is aweary of thy common sight. -Henry IV. Part I. BLESSING OF SLEEP. SLEEP, gentle sleep, Nature's soft nurse, how have...sleep, liest thou in smoky cribs, Upon uneasy pallets stretching1 thee, And hushed with buzzing night-flies to thy slumber, Than in the perfumed chambers...
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The Art of Elocution: Or, Logical and Musical Reading and Declamation. With ...

George Vandenhoff - 1847 - 400 pages
...TO SLEEP.— SHAKS. How many thousands of my poorest subjects Are at this hour asleep ! O Sleep, O gentle Sleep, Nature's soft nurse, how have I frighted...with buzzing night-flies to thy slumber, Than in the perfumed chambers of the great, Under the canopies of costly state, And lull'd with sounds of sweetest...
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Elements of Criticism: With Analyses, and Translation of Ancient and Foreign ...

Lord Henry Home Kames - 1847 - 516 pages
...given even to sleep: King Henry. How many thousands of my poorest subjects Are nt this hour asleep! O gentle Sleep, .Nature's soft nurse, how have I frighted...eye-lids down, And steep my senses in forgetfulness 1 Why rather, Sleep, ly'st thpu in smoky cribs, Cpon uneasy pallets strciching thee, And hush'd with...
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Sketch of the life of Shakespeare. Tempest. Two Gentlemen of Verona. Merry ...

William Shakespeare - 1848 - 498 pages
...o'er-read these letters, And well consider of them : Make good speed. [Exit Page. How many thqusands of my poorest subjects Are at this hour asleep ! —...night-flies to thy slumber ; Than in the perfum'd champers of the great, Under the canopies of coatly state, And lull'd with sounds of sweetest melody...
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The reciter's companion; comprising the most popular recitations, comic ...

Reciter - 1848 - 262 pages
...HENRY IV.'t 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 perfumed chambers of the great, Under the canopies of costly state, And lull'd with sounds of sweetest...
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Henry IV, pt. 2. Henry V. Henry VI, pts. 1-3

William Shakespeare - 1848 - 560 pages
...these letters, And well consider of them. Make good speed. Are at this hour asleep ! — O Sleep, O gentle Sleep, Nature's soft nurse, how have I frighted...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...
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The Hemans Reader for Female Schools: Containing Extracts in Prose and Poetry

Timothy Stone Pinneo - 1847 - 502 pages
...friends : — such death be mine ! J. MONTGOMEHT. LESSON CCXXVIII. SLEEP.— DEATH. ETERNITY. Sleep. SLEEP, gentle sleep ! Nature's soft nurse, how have...wilt weigh my eyelids down, And steep my senses in forgetful ness 1 Why rather, sleep, liest thou in smoky cribs, Upon uneasy pallets stretching thee,...
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Naomi: Or, Boston, Two Hundred Years Ago

Eliza Buckminster Lee - 1848 - 470 pages
...to the love and wisdom of her Heavenly Father. Again and again would Naomi exclaim, — " O sleep, O gentle sleep ! Nature's soft nurse, how have I frighted...eyelids down, And steep my senses in forgetfulness ? " The loss of sleep induced a general lassitude and irritability of the nervous system, harder to...
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The Juvenile companion, and Sunday-school hive [afterw.] The ..., Volumes 25-26

1876 - 396 pages
...reading, but if you will read it twice through, we think you will say that it is very beautiful :— " Sleep, gentle sleep, Nature's soft nurse, how have...with buzzing night-flies to thy slumber ; Than in the perfumed chambers of the great, Under the canopies of costly state, And lull'd with sounds of sweetest...
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The Juvenile companion, and Sunday-school hive [afterw.] The ..., Volumes 24-25

1871 - 688 pages
...reading, but if you will read it twice through, we think you will say, that it is very beautiful : — Sleep, gentle sleep. Nature's soft nurse, how have...with buzzing night-flies to thy slumber; Than in the perfumed chambers of the great, Under the canopies of costly state, And lull'd with sounds of sweetest...
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