 | Quotations, English - 1847 - 540 pages
...And many monstrous forms in sleep we see, Which neither were, nor are, nor e'er can be. DRYDEN. 6. Tir'd nature's sweet restorer, balmy sleep ! He, like...Where fortune smiles — the wretched he forsakes. YOUNG'S Night Thoughts. 7. When tir'd with vain rotations of the day, Sleep winds us up for the succeeding... | |
 | David Landsborough - 1847 - 418 pages
...one — how dreaded the other ! Sleep has been spoken of by the poet as a fair-weather friend: — " He, like the world, his ready visit pays Where Fortune...smiles; the wretched he forsakes; Swift on his downy pinions flies from woe, And lights on lids unsullied with a tear." We own no obligations to Fortune... | |
 | W. H. Leigh - Australia - 1847 - 244 pages
...slumber. How beautifully does Young sing upon this subject ! ' Tired nature's calm restorer, gentle Sleep, He, like the world, his ready visit pays Where fortune smiles — the wretched he forsakes, To light on lids unsullied with a tear.' Sometimes I doze gradually into a partial state of forgetfulness... | |
 | David Bates Tower - 1853 - 444 pages
...preserve from oblivion will have passed away. WASHINGTON IBVIHO 60. On Life, Death, and Immortality. TIRED Nature's sweet restorer, balmy Sleep ! He, like the...on his downy pinion flies from woe, And lights on lids unsullied with a tear. Night, sable goddess ! from her ebon throne, In rayless majesty, now stretches... | |
 | Allen Hayden Weld - English language - 1848 - 120 pages
...! Come then, expressive Silence, muse His praise. LIFE, DEATH, AND IMMORTALITY. — [TOOTS.] TIRED Nature's sweet restorer, balmy Slee"p ! He, like the world, His ready visit pays 5 Where Fortune smiles; the wretched he forsakes: Swift on his downy pinion flies from woe, And lights... | |
 | James Foote - 1849 - 674 pages
...provulnere corpus." — Lucan, ix. 812, &c. § As in the well-known and beautiful words of Young : — " 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." " And" Jesus " said unto them, Why sleep ye ? rise and pray, lest ye enter... | |
 | Thomas Powell - Authors, English - 1849 - 328 pages
...— in his tent. His troubled mind courts repose in vain ! exemplifying Young's description. " Tired nature's sweet restorer — balmy sleep ! He like...on his downy pinion flies from woe, And lights on lids unsullied with a tear !" He sends for his daughter, who is found kneeling before an altar in her... | |
 | Rufus Wilmot Griswold - American poetry - 1849 - 578 pages
...threshold of the Deity, Or far beneath it I am grovelling still. LIFE, DEATH, AND IMMORTALITY. TIRED nature's sweet restorer, balmy sleep ! He, like the...smiles ; the wretched he forsakes ; Swift on his downy pinions flies from wo, And lights on lids \insullied with a tear. From short (as usual) and disturbed... | |
 | George Croly - English poetry - 1849 - 416 pages
...[u vain the freshening fields appear : — Without my love there is no spring. YOUNG MIDNIOHT TIRED Nature's sweet restorer, balmy sleep ! He, like the...visit pays Where Fortune smiles ; the wretched he forsaken Swift on his downy pinion flies from wo, And lights on lids unsullied with a tear. From short... | |
 | John Milton - 1849 - 650 pages
...ARTHUR ONSLOW, ESQ. SPEAKER OF THE HOUSE OF COMMONS. 1/TiRED Nature's sweet restorer, balmy sleep J He, like the world, his ready visit pays * Where Fortune...; the wretched he forsakes , ', Swift on his downy pini6n flies from woe, And lights on lids unsullied with a tear. / 5 From short (as usual) and disturb'd... | |
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TIRED Nature's sweet restorer, balmy Sleep ! He, like the world, his ready visit pays Where Fortune smiles ; the wretched he forsakes ; Swift on his downy pinion flies from woe, And lights on lids unsullied with a tear. 
