 | William Shakespeare - 1833 - 1140 pages
...Are at this hour asleep! — Sleep, gentle sleep,1) Nature's soft nurse, how have I frighted thee, Than in the perfum'd chambers of the great, Under the canopies of costly state, And lull'd with sounds... | |
 | James Hedderwick - Oratory - 1833 - 232 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 eye-lids down, And...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 - 1833 - 522 pages
...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...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... | |
 | English literature - 1833 - 642 pages
...APOSTROPHE TO SLEEP. " SLEEP, gentle sleep, Nature's soft nurse, how have I frighted thee, That tliou no more wilt weigh my eyelids down And steep my senses...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... | |
 | Wolfgang Clemen - English drama - 1987 - 232 pages
...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 my eyelids down, And...smoky cribs, Upon uneasy pallets stretching thee, 10 And husht with buzzing night-flies to thy slumber, Than in the perfmn'd chambers of the great, Under... | |
 | Stephen Greenblatt - Drama - 1988 - 226 pages
...of histrionic rhetoric but as a private meditation, the innermost thoughts of a troubled, weary man: Why rather, sleep, liest thou in smoky cribs, Upon...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 sound... | |
 | George T. Wright - Poetry - 1988 - 366 pages
...successive lines with very different rhythmical contours that nevertheless remained metrically iambic: Why rather, Sleep, liest thou in smoky cribs, Upon...And hush'd with buzzing night-flies to thy slumber (2 Henry 1V. 3.1.9-I1) The second and third lines follow a mainly trochaic inner rhythm, in contrast... | |
 | Orson Welles - Performing Arts - 1988 - 356 pages
...frighted thee, / That thou no more wilt weigh mine eyelids down / And steep my senses in forgetful ness? / Why rather, sleep, liest thou in 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... | |
 | Edith P. Hazen - Literary Criticism - 1992 - 1172 pages
...NAEL-I King Henry IV, Pt. II 54 0 sleep, 0 gentle sleep, Nature's soft nurse, how have I frighted thee, l l l hushed with buzzing night-flies to thy slumber, Than in the perfumed chambers of the great. Under the... | |
 | Robert Andrews - Reference - 1993 - 1214 pages
...bk. 4, set. 1 2 (1963). 4 О sleep, О gentle sleep. Nature's soft nurse, how have 1 frighted thee. bert Andrews WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE (1564-1616). English dramalisl. poet. King Henry, in Henry IV, Pari 2, ad 3, se.... | |
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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... 
