 | Marguerite Countess of Blessington - 1846 - 460 pàgines
...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 Where Fortune...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... | |
 | 1846 - 486 pàgines
...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 Gardiner (countess of Blessington.) - 1846 - 1004 pàgines
...and well might she have exclaimed with the poet — •' 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 pinions flies from woe, And lights on lids unsullied with a tear." But poor Sclina felt her painful... | |
 | Marguerite Countess of Blessington - 1846 - 456 pàgines
..., 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 pàgines
...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 Where fortune...lids unsullied with a tear. From short (as usual) and disturb'd repose, I wake : how happy they who wake no more ! Yet that were vain, if dreams infest the... | |
 | David Landsborough - 1847 - 418 pàgines
...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 - 1847 - 244 pàgines
...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... | |
 | 1847 - 540 pàgines
...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 pays, 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... | |
 | 1847 - 526 pàgines
...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 pays, 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 Bates Tower - 1853 - 444 pàgines
...WASHINGTON IBVIHO 60. On Life, Death, and Immortality. TIRED Nature's sweet restorer, balmy Sleep ! He, like the world, his ready visit pays Where fortune...from woe, And lights on lids unsullied with a tear. Night, sable goddess ! from her ebon throne, In rayless majesty, now stretches forth Her leaden sceptre... | |
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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. 
