 | Thomas Powell - Authors, English - 1851 - 216 pages
...Hastings" — in his tent. His troubled mind courts repose in vain ! exemplifying Young's description. " Tired nature's sweet restorer — balmy sleep ! He...from woe, And lights on lids unsullied with a tear '." He sends for his daughter, who is found kneeling before an altar in her convent! He then makes... | |
 | John Carr Badeley - 1851 - 68 pages
...would substantiate my conviction. They try to sleep again, but they invoke the drowsy god in vain : " He, like the world, his ready visit pays Where fortune...from woe, And lights on lids unsullied with a tear." Could they but sleep again — could sleep but be induced by narcotics — their melancholy exit had... | |
 | Otto Ritter - 1899 - 64 pages
...The surly tempests blow, &c. : — scheint von dem Eingange der 'Night Thoughts' angeregt zu sein: 'Tired Nature's sweet restorer, balmy Sleep! He, like...ready visit pays Where fortune smiles; the wretched he forsakes2) . . . 1) Dies Lied hat auf Burus einen besonders tiefen Eindruck gemacht ; noch im Jahre... | |
 | David Josiah Brewer - Speeches, addresses, etc - 1899 - 472 pages
...written, — I mean Young, — has said, at the commencement, I think, of one of his 'Nights': — "Sleep, like the world, his ready visit pays Where Fortune smiles; the wretched he forsakes. And lights on lids unsullied with a tear." Now, if you will study that sentence, you will see there... | |
 | Mrs. Mary Edwardine Bourke Emory - Maryland - 1900 - 298 pages
...Goldsborough, the "Centreville belle." What could be more appropriate and prettier for a canopy ? " Tired nature's sweet restorer, balmy sleep ! He, like the world, his ready visit pays ; When fortune smiles, the wretched he forsakes, Swift on his downy pinions flies from woe, And lights... | |
 | Harry Thurston Peck, Frank R. Stockton, Julian Hawthorne - Anthologies - 1901 - 450 pages
...equal ; neither weighs ; All weight in this, — Oh, let me live to thee! SILENCE AND DARKNESS. TIEED nature's sweet restorer, balmy sleep ! He, like the...smiles, the wretched he forsakes : Swift on his downy pinions flies from woe, And lights on lids unsullied with a tear. From short (as usual) and disturbed... | |
 | Charles Morris - Orators - 1902 - 714 pages
...— I mean Young, — has said, at the commencement, I think, of one of his " Nights " • , " Sleep, like the world, his ready visit pays Where Fortune smiles ; the wretched he forsakes, And lights on lids unsullied with a tear." Now, if you will study that sentence, you will see there... | |
 | Franklin Verzelius Newton Painter - 1905 - 770 pages
...which is often quite effective. The opening lines, which are often referred to, are as follows : — " Tired Nature's sweet restorer, balmy Sleep ! He, like...pinion flies from woe, And lights on lids unsullied by a tear." Young's works abound in brief sententious sayings, and he rivals Shakespeare and Pope in... | |
 | Ludwig Herrig - English literature - 1906 - 844 pages
...(In- right 01 genius to be free from rules. From NIGHT THOUGHTS. [1742-1746] Night I, II. 1-194. Tir'd Nature's sweet restorer, balmy sleep! He, like the...forsakes; Swift on his downy pinion flies from woe, 5 And lights on lids unsullied with a tear. From short (as usual) and disturb'd repose, I wake: how... | |
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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. 
