 | William Henry Robertson - 1848 - 386 pages
...depressing passions of grief or anxiety be likewise at work, the effect is largely added to. — " Sleep, gentle Sleep, Nature's soft nurse, how have I frighted...And hush'd 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... | |
 | William Balmbro'. Flower - 1848 - 304 pages
...enemies. Shakspearc. SLEEP. How many thousand of my poorest subjects, Are at this hour asleep ! — Sleep, gentle sleep, Nature's soft nurse, how have I frighted...And hush'd 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... | |
 | 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...And hush'd 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... | |
 | 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... | |
 | Eliza Buckminster Lee - 1848 - 340 pages
...future to the love and wisdom of her Heavenly Father. Again and again would Naomi exclaim, — " O sleep, 0 gentle sleep, Nature's soft nurse, how have...eyelids down, And steep my senses in forgetfulness ? " The loss of sleep induced a general lassitude and irritability of the nervous system, harder to... | |
 | 1871 - 688 pages
...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 I frighted...And hush'd 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... | |
 | 1876 - 396 pages
...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 I frighted...And hush'd 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... | |
 | A. Cunningham - 1850 - 200 pages
...triumphed!" 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...And hush'd 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... | |
 | Robert Joseph Sullivan - 1850 - 524 pages
...FOURTH'S SOLILOQUY ON SLEEP. How many thousands of my poorest subjects Are at this hour asleep 1 O gentle Sleep ! Nature's soft nurse ! how have I frighted...And hush'd 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... | |
 | Pliny Miles - 1850 - 372 pages
...2. SHAKSPEARE. KNOWN. 37. How many thousand 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, And hushed with buzzing night-flies to thy slumber ; Than in the perfumed chambers of the great, Under... | |
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How many thousand of my poorest subjects Are at this hour asleep ! — O Sleep, O gentle sleep, Nature's soft nurse, how have I frighted thee, That thou no more wilt weigh my eyelids down... 
