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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, And steep my senses in forgetfulness... "
King Richard II. King Henry IV, part 1. King Henry IV, part 2. Henry V - Page 310
by William Shakespeare - 1826
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Knight's Cabinet edition of the works of William Shakspere, Volume 5

William Shakespeare - 1843 - 348 pages
...Warwick ; But, ere they come, bid them o'er-read these letters, And well consider of them : Make goad speed. [Exit Page. How many thousand of my poorest...smoky cribs, Upon uneasy pallets stretching thee, And ImsliM with buzzing night-flies to thy slumber, Than in the perfum'd chambers of the great, Under the...
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The works of Shakspere, revised from the best authorities: with a ..., Volume 3

William Shakespeare - 1843 - 672 pages
...And well consider of them. Make good speed. — [Exit Page. How many thousand of my poorest suhjects Are at this hour asleep! — O sleep, O gentle sleep,...forgetfulness ? Why rather, sleep, liest thou in smoky crihs, Upon uneasy pallets stretching thee, And hushed with huzzing night-flies to thy slumher, Than...
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Studies in English poetry [an anthology] with biogr. sketches and notes by J ...

Joseph Payne - 1845 - 490 pages
...the most harmonious correspondence between sound and sense — ending in a beautiful " dying fall." Nature's soft nurse, how have I frighted thee, That...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 Art of Elocution: From the Simple Articulation of the Elemental Sounds ...

George Vandenhoff - Elocution - 1846 - 398 pages
...this — * . f DRAMATIC PIECES. 327 HENRY IVTH'S APOSTROPHE TO SLEEP.— SHAKS. How many thousands of my poorest subjects Are at this hour asleep ! O...smoky cribs, Upon uneasy pallets stretching thee, And hnsh'd with buzzing night-flies to thy slumber, Than in the perfumed chambers of the great. Under the...
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Chambers's Miscellany of Useful and Entertaining Tracts

William Chambers, Robert Chambers - Art - 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 I frighted...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 - Elocution - 1847 - 400 pages
...whispering humbleness, Say this — HENRY IVTH'S APOSTROPHE TO SLEEP.— SHAKS. How many thousands of my poorest subjects Are at this hour asleep ! O...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 Art of Elocution: Or, Logical and Musical Reading and Declamation. With ...

George Vandenhoff - Elocution - 1847 - 396 pages
...courtesie* Pll lend you thus much monies." HENRY IVTH'S APOSTROPHE TO SLEEP.— SHAKS. How many thousands of my poorest subjects Are at this hour asleep ! O...wilt weigh my eyelids down, And steep my senses in forgetfulncss ? Why rather, Sleep, liest thou in smoky cribs, Upon uneasy pallets stretching thee,...
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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
...Warwick; But ere they come, bid them o'er-read these letters, And well consider of them. Make good speed. Are at this hour asleep ! — O Sleep, O gentle Sleep,...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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Naomi: Or, Boston, Two Hundred Years Ago

Eliza Buckminster Lee - Society of Friends - 1848 - 470 pages
...her future 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...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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