| Thomas Campbell - 1844 - 846 páginas
...pays V'here fortune smiles ; the wretched he forsakes; wift on his downy pinion flies from woe, nd ss sleep ! Thus is nature's vesture wrought, To instruct our wa disturb'd repose, wake : How happy they, who wake no more ! et that were vain, if dreams infest the... | |
| Marguerite Gardiner (countess of Blessington.) - 1846 - 1004 páginas
...her pillow, and well might she have exclaimed with the poet — •' Tired Nature's sweet restorer, balmy Sleep ; He, like the world, his ready visit...smiles : the wretched he forsakes ; Swift on his downy pinions flies from woe, And lights on lids unsullied with a tear." But poor Sclina felt her painful... | |
| Marguerite Countess of Blessington - 1846 - 460 páginas
...visit her pillow, and well might she have exclaimed with the poet — "Tired Nature's sweet restorer, balmy Sleep; He, like the world, his ready visit pays...smiles: the wretched he forsakes; Swift on his downy pinions flies from woe, And fights on fids unsulfied with a tear." But poor Selina felt her painful... | |
| Marguerite Countess of Blessington - 1846 - 774 páginas
...pillow, and well might she have exclaimed with the poet — , "Tired Nature's sweet restorer, halmy Sleep; He , like the world , his ready visit pays...smiles : the wretched he forsakes ; Swift on his downy pinions flies from w«e, And lights on lids unsullied with a tear." But poor Selina felt her painful... | |
| 1846 - 486 páginas
...Cowper, as " Tired nature's sweet restorer;" rather had it been his lot with a kindred poet to sigh — " 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." And fully could Cowper respond to... | |
| Marguerite Countess of Blessington - 1846 - 456 páginas
...pillow , and well might she have exclaimed with the poet — "Tired Nature's sweet restorer, halmy Sleep; He , like the world . his ready visit pays Where Fortune smiles: the wretched he forsakes; SMili (in his downy pinions flies from woe, And lights on tids unsullied with a tear." But poor Selina... | |
| Half hours - 1847 - 560 páginas
...accounts, and died in 1765. He did not take orders ia the Church till 1727.] Tired Nature's sweet restorer, balmy sleep, He, like the world, his ready visit pays...he forsakes ; Swift 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 :... | |
| Edward Young - 1847 - 344 páginas
...ARTHUR ONSLOW. ESft. SPEAKER OF THE HOUSE OF COMMONS. TIRED Nature's sweet restorer, balmy Sleep1 ! He, like the world, his ready visit pays Where Fortune...he forsakes: Swift on his downy pinion flies from woe, And lights on lids unsullied with a tear. From short (as usual) and disturb'd r6pose, I wake :... | |
| David Landsborough - 1847 - 418 páginas
...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... | |
| 1847 - 540 páginas
...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 the world, his ready visit...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... | |
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