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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... "
Sketch of the life of Shakespeare. Tempest. Two Gentlemen of Verona. Merry ... - Page 423
by William Shakespeare - 1848
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The Plays of Shakespeare: The Text Regulated by the Old Copies, and by the ...

William Shakespeare - 1853 - 916 pages
...speed. [Exit Page. How many thousand of my poorest subjects Are at this hour asleep ! — О sleep ! О twt p p ppBCp[v\v chambers of the great, Under high canopies of costly state, And lull'd with sound of sweetest melody?...
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The Wisdom and Genius of Shakespeare: Comprising Moral Philosophy ...

William Shakespeare - 1853 - 608 pages
...: It seldom visits sorrow ; when it doth, It is a comforter. 1 — ii. 1. 180. Sleep, its absence. 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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Royal Preacher: Lectures on Ecclesiastes

James Hamilton - Bible - 1853 - 400 pages
...triumph of the day. As a king expresses it, who could sympathize with Solomon: — " How many thousands of my poorest subjects Are at this hour asleep ! —...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 Book of Eloquence: A Collection of Extracts in Prose and Verse, from the ...

Readers - 1853 - 458 pages
...wide ; Hold hard the breath, and bend up every spirit To his full height ! XIIL— SLEEP. BHAK8PEAEK. SLEEP, gentle sleep, Nature's soft nurse, how have...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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The plays of Shakspere, carefully revised [by J.O.] with ..., Part 167, Volume 2

William Shakespeare - 1853 - 832 pages
...— [Exit Page. How many thousand of my poorest subjects Are at this hour asleep ! — О sleep, О / / hushed with huzzing night-flies to thy slumber, Than in the perfumed chambers of the great, Under the...
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The Life and Beauties of Shakespeare: Comprising Careful Selections from ...

William Shakespeare - 1853 - 420 pages
...feeder, art so full of him, That thou provok'st thyself to cast him up. ACT III. APOSTROPHE TO SLEEP. Sleep, gentle sleep, Nature's soft nurse, how have...thou in smoky cribs, Upon uneasy pallets stretching thec, And hush'd with buzzing night-flies to thy slumScr Than in the perfum'd chambers of the great,...
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The Works of William Shakespeare: Comprising His Dramatic and ..., Volume 1

William Shakespeare - 1853 - 508 pages
...many thousands of my poorest subjects Are at this hour asleep ! — Sleep, gentle sleep, Nature's soil nurse, how have I frighted thee, That thou no more...uneasy pallets stretching thee, And hush'd with buzzing ni(r ht-llies to thy slumber ; Than in the perfum'd chambers of the great, Under the canopies of costly...
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School elocution : or The young academical orator

William Herbert - 1853 - 234 pages
...— I'll forth, and walk a while.— fCibberJ. KING HENRY IV. IN HIS LAST ILLNESS. How many thousand of my poorest subjects Are at this hour asleep ! Sleep,...steep my senses in forgetfulness ? Why rather, Sleep, liestthouin smoky cribs, Upon uneasy pallets stretching thee, And hush'd with buzzing night-flies to...
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The girl's first help to reading; or, Selections from the best authors, by T ...

Theodore Alors W. Buckley - 1854 - 208 pages
...to the great grief of all the family. HENRY IV.'S SOLILOQUY ON SLEEP. SHAKSPEABH. How many thousand of my poorest subjects Are at this hour asleep ! Sleep,...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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Lectures on English History and Tragic Poetry, as Illustrated by Shakespeare

Henry Reed - Great Britain - 1856 - 484 pages
...dwellings in a sleeping city, gives utterance to that beautiful apostrophe to sleep : "How many thousand of my poorest subjects Are at this hour asleep ! —...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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