 | Niccolò Forteguerri - Italian poetry - 1822 - 280 pages
...from the rattling tongue Of saucy and audacious eloquence." Shakespeare, Ibid. •— • — — " Sleep, gentle sleep, Nature's soft nurse, how have...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,... | |
 | John Platts - Conduct of life - 1822 - 844 pages
...a sound sleep and the horrors of a restless night, in this soliloquy of King Henry the Fourth : — How 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... | |
 | English poetry - 1822 - 418 pages
...see and tell Of things invisible to mortal sight. HENRY THE FOURTH S SOLILOQUY ON SLEEP. SHAKSPEARE. How 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... | |
 | English literature - 1837 - 540 pages
...the vile ?" for never was human conception more sweetly embodied than in the opening apostrophe, " Sleep ! gentle sleep ! Nature's soft nurse, how have...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... | |
 | 1823 - 594 pages
...bles of state and the torments of his mind, and to change places with the lowest of his subjects. " How many thousands of my poorest subjects Are, at...gentle Sleep, Nature's soft nurse, how have I frighted thoe, That thou no more wilt weigh' my eye-lids down, And steep my senses in forgetfulness ? Why rather,... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1823 - 984 pages
...And well consider of them : Make good speed. [£ri« PACE. How many thousand of my poorest nibjects another's eye? Lys. Or, if there were a sympathy in choice, War, death, or sickne (righted thee. That thou no more wilt weigh my eyelids done. And steep my senses in forgetl illness... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1823 - 590 pages
...o'er-read these letters, And well consider of them: Make good speed. [Exit Page. How many thousand of my poorest subjects Are at this hour asleep ! — Sleep, gentle sleep, f Nature's soft nurse, how have I frighted thee, t " O sleep, O gentle sleep,"—MA LONE. £ 3 That... | |
 | William Enfield - 1823 - 412 pages
...subjected thus, How can you say to me I am a King r SHAKSPEABE. CHAP; XI. HENRY IV'S 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 thee, That thou no more wilt weigh my eyelids... | |
 | William Scott - Elocution - 1823 - 396 pages
...did pity them. — This only is the witchcraft I have us'd. IX. — Henry IV's Soliloquy on Sleep. HOW many thousands of my poorest subjects Are at this hour asleep ! — O gentle sleep ! ' Nature's soft nurs« ! how have I frighted thee, That thou no more wilt weigh... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1824 - 882 pages
...them : make good speed. — [Exit Page. How many thousand of my poorest subjects Are at this h»ur owder ! they'll fill a pit, as well as better : tush..., mortal men, mortal men ! //,,,,'. Ay, but, sir forgRtfulness ? Why rather, sleep, liest thou in smoky cribs, Upon uneasy pallets stretching thce,... | |
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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... 
