| John Johnstone - 1827 - 596 pages
...which nature sheds O'er those we love, we drop it in their grave. ON LIFE, DEATH, AND IMMORTALITY. TIR'D Nature's sweet restorer, balmy Sleep ! He, like...on his downy pinion flies from woe, And lights on lids unsullied with a tear. From short (as usual) and disturb'd repose I wake: how happy they who wake... | |
| Jonathan Barber - 1828 - 264 pages
...sequester'd vale of life Pursue the noiseless tenor of thy doom. THE COMMENCEMENT OF YOUNG'S NIGHT THOUGHTS. TIR'D Nature's sweet restorer, balmy Sleep ! He, like...he forsakes ; Swift on his downy pinion flies from wo, And lights on lids unsully'd with a tear. From short, (as usual) and disturbed repose, I wake :... | |
| John Barber - Elocution - 1828 - 310 pages
...description whatever. One dead uniform silence reigned over the whole region. YOUNG'S NIGHT THOUGHTS. Tir'd Nature's sweet restorer, balmy Sleep! He, like...Fortune smiles; the wretched, he forsakes; Swift on hi' downy pinion flies from wo, And lights on lids unsullied with a tear. From short, as usual, and... | |
| William Jay - Meditations - 1829 - 538 pages
...I see Mordecai the Jew sitting at the king's gate. On that night could not the king sleep. " Tired Nature's sweet restorer, balmy sleep — " He, like...world, his ready visit pays " Where fortune smiles." But is this true? No. Sleep, sound, wholesome, refreshing sleep, has least to do where fortune smiles.... | |
| Robert Chambers - American literature - 1830 - 844 pages
...epic strains of Milton. On Life, Death) and Immortality. Tired Nature's sweet restorer, balmy Sleep I Behold him seated on a mount serene, Above the fogs...black cares and tumults of this life, Like harmless lids unsullied with a tear. From short (as ueual) and disturbed repose I wake : how happy they who... | |
| Thomas F. Walker - English poetry - 1830 - 256 pages
...ARTHUR ONSLOW, SPEAKER OP THE HOUSE OP COMMONS. TII'D Nature's sweet restorer, balmy Sleep.1 He, tike the world, his ready visit pays Where fortune smiles...forsakes ; Swift on his downy pinion flies from woe, Awl lights on lids unsullied with a tear. From short (as usual) and diatnrb'd repose, I wake : How... | |
| 1831 - 644 pages
...last, hare become more populous, new сама but rarely occur. we retired early to bed, but not to sleep — He, like the world, his ready visit pays Where fortune smiles. It was our mishap to be annoyed almost all night with fleas, and those nameless horrid insects which... | |
| Moses Severance - Readers - 1832 - 312 pages
...general pulse Of life stood still, and nature made a pause, An awful pause, prophetic of her end. Sleep. Tir'd Nature's sweet restorer, balmy Sleep ! He, like the world, his ready visits pays Where Fortune smiles ; the wretched he forsakes: Swift on his downy pinions, flies from... | |
| John Close - 1833 - 182 pages
...his example, as I am sleepy whatever thou may'st be.* CHAPTER VI. r " Tired Nature's sweet rest ever, balmy sleep ; He, like the world, his ready visit...he forsakes ! Swift on his downy pinion flies from wo, And lights on lids unsullied with a tear."— YOBNO. " Muttering, the winds at eve, with blunted... | |
| William Tait, Christian Isobel Johnstone - 1833 - 832 pages
...him her nocturnal hobby. Sleep then is out of the question : " He, like the world, hi« ready vi«it pays Where fortune smiles; the wretched he forsakes; Swift on his downy pinion» flies from wo, And lights on lids unsullied with я tear." Invariably next morning I find myself all bruised and... | |
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