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" 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... "
The Southern Review - Page 115
1830
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The First Canto of Ricciardetto, Volume 1

Niccolò Forteguerri - Italian poetry - 1822 - 280 pages
...Shakespeare, Ibid. •— • — — " 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 forgetfilness!" Shakespeare, Hen. IV. " In the first rank of these did Zimri stand : A man so various,...
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The plays of William Shakspeare, pr. from the text of the ..., Volume 5

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...And hush'd 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...
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The Dramatic Works of William Shakespeare, in Ten Volumes: King John ...

William Shakespeare - 1823 - 372 pages
...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...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...
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The Speaker: Or Miscellaneous Pieces, Selected from the Best English Writers ...

William Enfield - 1823 - 412 pages
...poorest subjects Are at this hour asleep ! O gentle Sleep, Nature's soft nurse, how have I frighted thee, That thou no more wilt weigh my eyelids down, And...And hush'd 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...
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The Cottager's monthly visitor, Volume 3

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,...
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Lessons in Elocution: Or, a Selection of Pieces in Prose and Verse for the ...

William Scott - Elocution - 1823 - 396 pages
...subjects Are at this hour asleep ! — O gentle sleep ! ' Nature's soft nurs« ! how have I frighted thee, That thou no more wilt weigh my eyelids down, And...steep my senses in forgetfulness? Why rather, Sleep, lie»t thou in smoky cribs, Upon uneasy pallets stretching thee, And hush'd with buzzing night flies...
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The Lady's Magazine and Museum, Volume 11

English literature - 1837 - 540 pages
...in the opening apostrophe, " 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 ?" But indeed the whole speech is so full of truth and beauty, comes home so closely to the feelings...
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The dramatic works of William Shakspeare, from the text of Johnson, Stevens ...

William Shakespeare - 1823 - 984 pages
...(righted thee. That thou no more wilt weigh my eyelids done. And steep my senses in forgetl illness ? as the lightning in the colliedt night, That, in a spleen, unfolds both Imsli'cl with buzzing night-flies to th> slumber ; Than in the perfum'd chambers of the great, Under...
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The Plays, Volume 5

William Shakespeare - 1824 - 422 pages
...subjects Are at thk hour asleep ! — Sleep, gentle sleep, Nature's soft nurse,, how have I frighted thee, That thou no more wilt weigh my eyelids down, And...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...
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A dictionary of quotations from the British poets, by the author of The ...

British poets - 1824 - 676 pages
...subjects Are at this hour asleep ! — O gentle sleep, Nature's soft nurse, how have I frighted thee, That thou no more wilt weigh my eyelids down, And...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...
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