 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 cribs, Upon uneasy pallets stretching thee, And hush'd with...  The literary class book; or, Readings in English literature - Page 454by Robert Joseph Sullivan - 1850Full view - About this book
 | 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...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 of sweetest... | |
 | Lord Henry Home Kames - Criticism - 1833 - 518 pages
...given even to sleep: King Henry. How many thousands of my poorest subjects Are at this hour asleep ! O gentle Sleep, Nature's soft nurse, how have I frighted...wilt weigh my eye-lids down, And steep my senses in forgetfulncss 1 Why rather, Sleep, ly'st thou in smoky cribs, Upon uneasy pallets stretching thee,... | |
 | 1859 - 980 pages
...Henry's familiar soliloquy ': "How many thousands of my poorest subjects Are at this hour asleep! 0 gentle sleep! Nature's soft nurse! How have I frighted...eyelids down, And steep my senses in forgetfulness? Wliy rather, sleep, liest thou in smoky cribs, Upon uneasy pallets stretching thee, And hush'd with... | |
 | Consumer protection - 1979 - 172 pages
...problems. 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... | |
 | Thomas Peregrine Courtenay - Drama - 1840 - 344 pages
...nurse, how have I frighted thee. That thou no more will weigh my eyelids down. And steep my senses hi forgetfulness ? Why rather, sleep, liest thou in smoky...with buzzing night-flies to thy slumber, Than in the perfumed chambers of the great. Under the canopies of costly state, And lulled with sounds of sweetest... | |
 | 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... | |
 | Wolfgang Clemen - English drama - 1987 - 232 pages
...[Page]. How many 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...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...Under the canopies of costly state, And lull'd with sound of sweetest melody? (3.1.9-14) Who knows? Perhaps it is even true; perhaps in a society in which... | |
 | 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 hushed with buzzing night-flies to thy slumber, Than in the perfumed chambers of the great. Under the... | |
 | William Shakespeare - Literary Criticism - 1994 - 884 pages
...direction 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...smoky cribs, Upon uneasy pallets stretching thee, 10 And hushed with buzzing night-flies to thy slumber, Than in the perfumed chambers of the great,... | |
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