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" How many thousand of my poorest subjects Are at this hour asleep ! — Sleep, 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... "
The Plays of Shakspeare: Printed from the Text of Samuel Johnson, George ... - Page 169
by William Shakespeare - 1807
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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...eyelids down, And steep my senses in forgetfulness ? Why rather, sleep, liest thou in smoky cribs, Upon uneasy pallets stretching thee, And hushed with...
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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...eyelids down, And steep my senses in forgetfulness ? Why rather, sleep, liest thou in smoky cribs, Upon uneasy pallets stretching1 thee, And hushed with...
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The Art of Elocution: From the Simple Articulation of the Elemental Sounds ...

George Vandenhoff - Elocution - 1846 - 398 pages
...TO SLEEP.— SHAKS. How many thousands of my poorest subjects Are at this hour asleep ! O Sleep, O gentle Sleep, Nature's soft nurse, how have I frighted...eyelids down, And steep my senses in forgetfulness ? Why rather, Sleep, liest thou in smoky cribs, Upon uneasy pallets stretching thee, And hnsh'd with...
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Shakespeare's Plays: With His Life, Volume 1

William Shakespeare - 1847 - 736 pages
...speed. [Exit Page. How many thousand of my poorest subjects Are at this hour asleep ! — O sleep ! O ? Why rather, sleep, liest thou in smoky cribs. Upon uneasy pallets stretching thee, And hush'd with...
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The Meaning of Shakespeare, Volume 1, Volume 1

Harold C. Goddard - Literary Criticism - 2009 - 410 pages
...append the speech here: "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...eyelids down And steep my senses in forgetfulness? Why rather, sleep, liest thou in smoky cribs. Upon uneasy pallets stretching thee, And hush'd with...
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FDA Consumer

Consumer protection - 1979 - 172 pages
...Those fa whom this approach is insufficient ra«v want to try some of the alternative^ "O sleep! O gentle sleep! Nature's soft nurse, how have I frighted...eyelids down And steep my senses in forgetfulness?" From Shakespeare's HENRY IV .•ideation alluded to in the JAMA d MEDICAL FORUM articles and also icussed...
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Aspects of Macbeth

Kenneth Muir, Philip Edwards - Literary Criticism - 1977 - 116 pages
...opening of the third act of Henry IV Part II is like listening to an overture to Macbeth: O sleep, O gentle sleep, Nature's soft nurse, how have I frighted...eye-lids down, And steep my senses in forgetfulness?. . . Then you perceive the body of our kingdom, How foul it is; what rank diseases grow, And with what...
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Shakespeare's Soliloquies

Wolfgang Clemen - English drama - 1987 - 232 pages
...3I Enter the KINO in his nightgown, with a PAGE. King. Go call the Earls of Surrey and of Warwick; But ere they come, bid them o'er-read these letters...thousand of my poorest subjects Are at this hour asleep! O sleep, O gentle sleep, 5 Nature's soft nurse, how have I frighted thee, That thou no more wilt weigh...
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The Columbia Granger's Dictionary of Poetry Quotations

Edith P. Hazen - Literary Criticism - 1992 - 1172 pages
...ii) 53 Rebellion lay in his way, and he found it. (V, i) NAEL-I King Henry IV, Pt. II 54 0 sleep, 0 H o o `(c 6 6 o o4H Why rather, sleep, liest thou in smoky cribs. Upon uneasy pallets stretching thee, And hushed with...
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Four Histories

William Shakespeare - Literary Criticism - 1994 - 884 pages
...of 1.2. F has 'with a 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...eyelids down And steep my senses in forgetfulness? Why rather, sleep, liest thou in smoky cribs, Upon uneasy pallets stretching thee, 10 And hushed with...
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