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. Watts, A. Philips, West, Collins, Dyer, Shenstone, Young - Seite 422herausgegeben von - 1810Vollansicht - Über dieses Buch
| Mrs. Barbauld (Anna Letitia) - 1816 - 414 Seiten
...explain the asking eye, And keep awhile one parent from the sky. Tir'd Nature's sweet restorer, halmy Sleep ! He, like the world, his ready visit pays Where...smiles; the wretched he forsakes, Swift on his downy pinions flies from grief, ' And lights on lids unsullied with a tear. Dreams are hut interludes, which... | |
| Filippo Pananti - 1818 - 524 Seiten
...reflect on a situation so new and afflicting 1 It was impossible to close an eye — Tir'd nature's sweet restorer, balmy sleep ! He, like the world,...on his downy pinion flies from woe, And lights on beds unsully'd with a tear. What dreadful phantoms hovered o'er our heads in this gloomy receptacle!... | |
| Regina Maria Roche - 1820 - 322 Seiten
...companions. But in vain he sought the repose he so much needed, so true is the remark, that " Tir'd nature's sweet restorer, balmy Sleep, He, like the world, his...— the wretched he forsakes — Swift on his downy pinions flies from woe, And lights on lids unsullied by a tear." At dawn of day he rose, and set out... | |
| William Shakespeare - 1821 - 676 Seiten
...are few who do not recollect the pathetick commencement of Young's Night Thoughts : " Tired nature's sweet restorer, balmy sleep : " He like the world his ready visit pays, " Where fortune smiles," &c. The first line appears as if it were merely an announcement of what is to be the subject of the... | |
| John Wilson - 1823 - 432 Seiten
...been beautiiully said by one whose works are not unknown in the dwellings of the poor, Tir'd Nature's sweet restorer, balmy sleep ! He, like the world,...;— -the wretched he forsakes: Swift on his downy pinions flies from woe, And lights on lids unsu«ied with a tear. Not so did Sleep this night forsake... | |
| British poets - 1824 - 676 Seiten
...boon the wretched mind can feel ; A momentary respite from despair. Murphy's Alzuma. Tir'd nature's sweet restorer, balmy sleep ! He, like the world,...from woe, And lights on lids unsullied with a tear. Young's Night Thoughts, n. 1. Man's rich restorative ; his balmy bath, That supples, lubricates, and... | |
| Robert Burton - 1824 - 374 Seiten
...for two years ; md yet received no visible injury from so long a privation of rest. Tir'd nature's sweet restorer, balmy sleep ! He, like the world,...smiles : the wretched he forsakes : Swift on his downy pinions flies from woe, And lights on lids unsullied with a tear. The consequences of this disease... | |
| Paul Ponder (pseud.) - 1825 - 524 Seiten
...following lines on sleep, had he wished to have repeated his efforts on the same subject. Tir'd nature's sweet restorer, balmy sleep, He like the world his...pays, Where fortune smiles: the wretched he forsakes, Soft on his downy pinions flies from woe, And lights on lids unsullied with a tear. Difficulties in... | |
| Paul Ponder (pseud.) - 1825 - 492 Seiten
...following lines on sleep, had he wished to have repeated his effort* on the same subject. 91 Tir'd nature's sweet restorer, balmy sleep, He like the world his...pays, Where fortune smiles: the wretched he forsakes, Soft on his downy pinions flies from woe, And lights on lids unsullied with a tear. Difficulties in... | |
| Edward Young - 1826 - 318 Seiten
...IMMORTALITY. TO THE RIGHT HON. ARTHUR ONSLOW, ESQ. SPEAKER OF THE BOVSt OF COMMONS. TIRED Nature's sweet restorer, balmy Sleep ! He, like the world,...from woe, And lights on lids unsullied with a tear. 5 From short (as usual) and disturb'd repose I wake : how happy they who wake no more ! Yet that were... | |
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