...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...he forsakes, Swift on his downy pinions flies from grief, ' And lights on lids unsullied with a tear. Dreams are hut interludes, which Fancy makes : When...

...could calmly 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...smiles ; the wretched he forsakes ; Swift on his downy pinion flies from woe, And lights on beds unsully'd with a tear. What dreadful phantoms hovered o'er...

...Introduction to the Night Thoughts — Uncertainty of human happiness — Universality of human misery. 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...

...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...his downy pinions flies from woe, And lights on lids unsullied by a tear." At dawn of day he rose, and set out on foot for Mrs. Orwell's : he had five miles...

...LIFE, DEATH, AND IMMORTALITY. TO THE RIOHT HON. ARTHUR ONSLOW, SPEAKER OP THE HOUSE OF COMMONS. TiR*n 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...

...all. There 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...

...Tlifc, Dcallj, <"»io TO THE RIGHT HON. ARTHUR ONSLOW, ESQ. SPEAKER OF THE HOUSE OF COMMONS. 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...

...It has 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...his downy pinions flies from woe, And lights on lids unsu«ied with a tear. Not so did Sleep this night forsake the wretched. 1 It* cnnic like moonlight...

...corrupted. Sleep. • Tir'd Nature's sweet restorer, balmy Sleep ! lie, like the world, his ready visits pays Where Fortune smiles ; the wretched he forsakes ; Swift on his downy pinions, flics from grief, '•And lights on lids unsullied with a tear. ,*-- ij - ,-, t >^"x The benefit of...

...perhaps had slept for a moment; for, as it has been beautifully said by a poet of our own, " Tired nature's sweet restorer, balmy sleep ! He, like the world, his ready visit pay Where fortune smiles ; the wretched he forsakes, Swift on his downy pinions flies from woe, And...