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" 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... "
A dictionary of quotations from the British poets, by the author of The ... - Page 238
by British poets - 1824
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Exercises in Reading and Recitation

Jonathan Barber - 1828 - 266 pages
...thou wilt, We try this quarrel, hilt to hilt. I Henry the Fourth's Soliloquy on Sleep. SHAKSPEARE. How many thousands of my poorest subjects Are at this...in forgetfulness? Why rather, Sleep, liest thou in 'oky cribs, Upon uneasy pallets stretching thee, And hushed with buzzing night-flies to thy slumber,...
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Exercises in Reading and Recitation

Jonathan Barber - 1828 - 264 pages
...Soliloquy on Sleep. SHAKSPEARE. How many thousands of my poorest subjects Are at this hour asleep! — 0 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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Analysis of the Principles of Rhetorical Delivery as Applied in Reading and ...

Ebenezer Porter - 1828 - 452 pages
...frighted thee, That thou no more wilt weigh my eyelids down, And steep my senses in forgetfulness ? 5 Why rather, sleep, liest thou in smoky cribs, Upon...of the great, Under the canopies of costly state, 10 And lull'd with sounds of sweetest melody. O thou dull god, why liest thou with the vile, In loathsome...
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The Dramatic Works of Shakespeare: With a Life, Volume 4

William Shakespeare - 1828 - 346 pages
...speed. [Exit Page. How many thousand of my poorest subjects Areatthisnourasleep! — O sleep, O gtntle sleep, Nature's soft nurse, how have I frighted thee,...And steep my senses in forgetfulness? Why rather, aleep, liest thou in smoky cribs, Upon uneasy pallets stretching thee, And Ini-hM with buzzing night-flies...
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Analysis of the Principles of Rhetorical Delivery as Applied in Reading and ...

Ebenezer Porter - 1828 - 418 pages
...whatever. One dead uniform silence reigned over the whole region." Burke. 72. Apostrophe to sleep, Sleep, gentle sleep, Nature's soft nurse, how have I frighted...eyelids down, And steep my senses in forgetfulness 7 5 Why rather, sleep, liest thou in smoky cribs, Upon uneasy pallets stretching thee, And hush'd with...
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Lessons in Elocution: Or, A Selection of Pieces, in Prose and Verse, for the ...

William Scott - 1829 - 420 pages
...This only is the witchcraft which I've us'd. IX. — Henry IV's Soliloquy on Sleep. — SHAKESPEARE. How many thousands of my poorest subjects Are at this...in forgetfulness ? Why rather, sleep, liest thou in smoaky cribs, Upon uneasy pallets stretching thee, And hush'd with buzzing night flies to thy slumber....
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A plain and short history of England for children;in letters from a father ...

England - 1829 - 282 pages
...lowest of his subjects. " How many thousands of my poorest subjects Are, at this hour, asleep! Sleep, gentle Sleep, Nature's soft nurse, how have I frighted...smoky cribs, Upon uneasy pallets stretching thee, I 3 And hushed with buzzing night-flies to thy slumber; Than in the perfum'd chambers of the great,...
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The Dramatic Works of William Shakespeare: Accurately Printed from ..., Volume 1

William Shakespeare, George Steevens - 1829 - 506 pages
...my poorest subjects Are at this hour asleep ! — bleep, gentle sleep, Nature's soft nurse, how hare I frighted thee, That thou no more wilt weigh my eyelids...thou in smoky cribs, Upon uneasy pallets stretching tliee, And hush'd with buzzing night- flies to thy slumber ; Than in the perfum'd chambers of the great,...
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The London encyclopaedia, or, Universal dictionary of ..., Part 2, Volume 9

Thomas Curtis (of Grove house sch, Islington) - 432 pages
...forgotten, as I shall be, And sleep in dull cold marble, where no mention Of Hie must more be heard. Id, O gentle sleep ! Nature's soft nurse, how have I frighted...wilt weigh my eyelids down, And steep my senses in forgetfutneu ! Id. I have read in ancient authors invitations to lay aside care and anxiety, and give...
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The Southern Review, Volume 6

1830 - 566 pages
...to Sleep. ** " Oh Sleep — oh gentle Sleep — Nature's soft nurse — how have I frighted thee 1 That thou, no more, wilt weigh my eyelids down And...And hush'd with buzzing night-flies to thy slumber, &c." But for some redeeming passages in Jonson's masques, and occasionally in his plays, we should...
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