 | William Shakespeare - 1821 - 508 pages
...reads: " O sleep, O gentle sleep." The repeated tragic O was probably a playhouse intrusion. STEEVENS, Nature's soft nurse, how have I frighted thee, That...with buzzing night-flies to thy slumber; Than in the perfum'd chambers of the great, Under the canopies of costly state. And lull'd with sounds of sweetest... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1821 - 498 pages
...: " 0 sleep, O gentle sleep." The repeated tragic O was probably a playhouse intrusion. STEEVENS. , Nature's soft nurse, how have I frighted thee, That...wilt weigh my eyelids down, And steep my senses in forge tfulness ? Why rather, sleep, liest thou in smoky cribs, Upon uneasy pallets stretching thee,... | |
 | English poetry - 1822 - 418 pages
...SOLILOQUY ON SLEEP. SHAKSPEARE. 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 perfum'd chambers of the great, Under the canopies of costly state, And lull'd with sounds of sweetest... | |
 | John Platts - Conduct of life - 1822 - 844 pages
...of King Henry the Fourth : — How many thousands of my poorest subjects Are at this hour asleep ! O ! gentle sleep, Nature's soft nurse, how have I...Upon uneasy pallets stretching thee, And hush'd with busy night-flies to thy slumbers, Than in the perfum'd chambers of the great, Under the canopies of... | |
 | Niccolò Forteguerri - Italian poetry - 1822 - 280 pages
...the rattling tongue Of saucy and audacious eloquence." Shakespeare, Ibid. •— • — — " Sleep, gentle sleep, Nature's soft nurse, how have I frighted...wilt weigh my eyelids down, And steep my senses in forgetfilness!" Shakespeare, Hen. IV. " In the first rank of these did Zimri stand : A man so various,... | |
 | William Enfield - 1823 - 412 pages
...HENRY IV'S 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 perkim'd chambers of the Great, Under the canopies of costly state,. And lull'd with sounds of sweetest... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1823 - 372 pages
...speed. — [Ex. Page. How many thousand of my poorest subjects Are at this hour asleep ! — Sleep, gentle sleep, Nature's soft nurse, how have I frighted...with buzzing night-flies to thy slumber ; Than in the perfum'd chambers of the great, Under the canopies of costly state, And lull'd with sounds of sweetest... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1823 - 590 pages
...sleep, f Nature's soft nurse, how have I frighted thee, t " O sleep, O gentle sleep,"—MA LONE. £ 3 That thou no more wilt weigh my eyelids down, And...with buzzing night-flies to thy slumber; Than in the perfiun'd chambers of the great, Under the canopies of costly state, And lulPd with sounds of sweetest... | |
 | 1823 - 594 pages
...subjects Are, at this hour, asleep! Sleep, gentle Sleep, Nature's soft nurse, how have I frighted thoe, That thou no more wilt weigh' my eye-lids down, And...thou in smoky cribs, Upon uneasy pallets stretching I hce, And hush'd with buzzing night-flies to tliy slumber; Than in the perfum'd chambers of the great,... | |
 | English literature - 1837 - 540 pages
...vile ?" for never was human conception more sweetly embodied than in the opening apostrophe, " Sleep ! gentle sleep ! Nature's soft nurse, how have I frighted...eyelids down And steep my senses in forgetfulness ?" But indeed the whole speech is so full of truth and beauty, comes home so closely to the feelings... | |
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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... 
