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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... "
Elements of Criticism.. - Page 144
by Lord Henry Home Kames - 1772
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Lessons in Elocution: Or, A Selection of Pieces in Prose and Verse, for the ...

William Scott - 1817 - 416 pages
...many thousands of my 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 steep my senses in forgetfulness ? Why rather, sleep, liest thou in smoaky cribs, Upon uneasy paltets...
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The dramatic works of William Shakspeare, Volume 4

William Shakespeare - 1814 - 478 pages
...my poorest subjects Are at this hour asleep ! — Sleep, gentle sleep, Nature's soft nurse, how hare I frighted thee, That thou no more wilt weigh my eyelids down, And steep my senses in forgetfulness? Why ratner, sleep, liest thou in smoky cribs, Upon uneasy pallets...
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The Plays of Shakspeare, Volume 1

William Shakespeare - 1819 - 560 pages
...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 ? Why rather, sleep, liest thou in smoky cribs, Upon uneasy pallets...
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Elements of Criticism, Volume 2

Lord Henry Home Kames - 1819 - 434 pages
...many thousands of my poorest subject* Are at this huur asleep ! O gtntle Sleep, Nature's soft nurse, how have I frighted thee, That thou no more wilt weigh my eye-lids dowo, And steep my senses in forgetfulness? Why rather, Sleep, ly'st thou in smoky cribs, Upon uneasy...
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Lessons in Elocution: Or, A Selection of Pieces, in Prose and Verse, for the ...

William Scott - 1819 - 366 pages
...thousands of my 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 steep my senses in forgetfulness ? Why rathe'r, Sleep, liest thoii in smoky cribs, Upon uneasy pallets...
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Lessons in Elocution, Or, A Selection of Pieces in Prose and Verse: For the ...

William Scott - 1820 - 422 pages
...many thousand of my 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 steep my senses in fdrgetfulness ? Why rather, sleep, liest thou in smoky cribs. Upon un.ea.sy pallet's...
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The Works: With Memoirs of His Life and Writings by Robert Anderson, Volume 2

John Moore - 1820 - 476 pages
...Address to Sleep into the mouth of this monarch.— 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 ? Why rather, Sleep, liest thou in smoky cribj, Upon uneasy pallets...
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The Plays and Poems of William Shakspeare, Volume 17

William Shakespeare - 1821 - 510 pages
...sleep, O gentle sleep." The repeated tragic O was probably a playhouse intrusion. Nature's soft nurse, how have I frighted thee, That thou no more wilt weigh my eyelids down, And steep my senses in forgetfulness ? Why rather, sleep, liest thou in smoky cribs, Upon uneasy pallets...
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The First Canto of Ricciardetto, Volume 1

Niccolò Forteguerri - 1822 - 280 pages
...audacious eloquence." 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...
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The Pleasures of Human Life, Examined and Enumerated: With an Entertaining ...

John Platts - 1822 - 844 pages
...many thousands of my 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 steep my senses in forgetfulness ? Why rather, sleep, liest thou in smoky cribs, Upon uneasy pallets...
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