 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.  Night Thoughts - Page 22by Edward Young - 1798 - 386 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Marguerite Countess of Blessington - 1846 - 456 pages
...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... | |
 | John Wilson - 1846 - 590 pages
...It has been beautifully 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, his ready visit pays \Vhere fortune smiles;—the wretched he forsakes: Swift on his downy pinions flies from woe. And lights... | |
 | 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...his downy pinions flies from woe, And lights on lids unsullied with a tear." We own no obligations to Fortune ; we are little careful to court her smile,... | |
 | Half hours - 1847 - 560 pages
...the most correct 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...smiles ; the wretched 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... | |
 | 1847 - 540 pages
...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 the...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... | |
 | Edward Young - 1847 - 344 pages
...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...smiles ; the wretched 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... | |
 | W. H. Leigh - 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...smiles ; the wretched he forsakes ; Swift on his downy pinion flies from woe, And lights on lids unsullied with a tear. Night, sable goddess ! from her ebon... | |
 | Allen Hayden Weld - 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... | |
 | Rufus Wilmot Griswold - 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...he forsakes ; Swift on his downy pinions flies from wo, And lights on lids \insullied with a tear. From short (as usual) and disturbed repose I wake :... | |
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