Chapter SLAVERY to SLEEP of Index by Grocott's Quotations - Alpha

O’er my limbs sleep’s soft dominion spread.

Young.—Night I. Line 92.

And I pray you, let none of your people stir me: I have an exposition of sleep come upon me.

Shakespeare.—Midsummer Night’s Dream, Act IV. Scene 1. (Bottom to Titania.)

Sweet sleep fell upon his eyelids, unwakeful, most pleasant, the nearest like death.

Homer.—The Odyssey, Buckley’s Transl. Spenser.—The Faërie Queen, Book II. Canto VII. Stanza 25.

They who make the least of death, consider it as having a great resemblance to sleep.

Cicero.—Tusculan Disputations, Book I. Div. 38. (Yonge’s Transl.)

Sleep and death, two twins of winged race,
Of matchless swiftness, but of silent pace.

Pope’s Homer.—The Iliad, Book XVI. Line 831.

Silent in the tangles soft involv’d, of death-like sleep.

Dyer.—The Fleece, Book II.

Death’s half-brother, sleep.

Dryden.—The Æneid, Book VI.

How Wonderful is death, death and his brother, sleep!

Shelley.—Queen Mab, Line 1. Broome, The Gods and Titans.

SLEEP.—Hail, thou gloomy night of sorrow,
Cheerless night that knows no morrow.

Burns.—Raving Winds, Verse 1.

Soon the shroud shall lap thee fast,
And the sleep be on thee cast,
That shall ne’er know waking.

Scott.—Guy Mannering, Chap. XXVII. (1829.)

That sleep which seem’d as it would ne’er awake.

Byron.—Don Juan, Canto II. Stanza 146. (1819, January.)

And weeping then she made her moan,
“The night comes on that knows not morn,
When I shall cease to be all alone,
To live forgotten and love forlorn.”

Tennyson.—Maria in the South, last Verse.

Well, sleep thy fill, and take thy soft reposes;
But know, withal, sweet tastes have sour closes;
And he repents in thorns, that sleeps in beds of roses.

Quarles.—Book I. No. VII. Stanza 3.

Sleeping within mine orchard,
My custom always in the afternoon.

Shakespeare.—Hamlet, Act I. Scene 5. (The Ghost to Hamlet.)