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" All things are hush'd as Nature's self lay dead, The mountains seem to nod their drowsy head : The little birds in dreams their songs repeat, And sleeping flowers beneath the night dews sweat. Even lust and envy sleep... "
The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL. D. - Page 103
by Samuel Johnson - 1820
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Macbeth. King John

William Shakespeare - 1788 - 480 pages
...HENLEY. 56. AW o'er the one half world Nature seems dead, ] That is, over our hemisphere all atiions and motion seem to have ceased. This image, which...adopted by Dryden in his Conquest of Mexico : " All tilings are Imsh'd as Nature's self lay dead, " The mountains seem to nod their drowsy head ; " The...
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The Plays of William Shakespeare ...

William Shakespeare - 1803 - 756 pages
...French. POPE. • 62. Now o'er the one hu\f world Nature seems dead,] That is, over our hemisphere all action and motion seem to have ceased. This image,...Conquest of Mexico : All things are hush'd as Nature's sctf lay dead, The mountains seem to nod their drowsy head ; The little birds in dreams their songs...
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The plays of William Shakspeare, pr. from the text of the ..., Volume 4

William Shakespeare - 1805 - 454 pages
...[A bell rings. 3 — Now o'er the one half world Nature seems rfeorf,] That is, over our hemisphere all action and motion seem to have ceased. This image,...drowsy head; The little birds in dreams their songs repeat, And sleeping flow'rs beneath the night dews sweat. Even lust and envy sleep !" These lines,...
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The Plays of William Shakespeare : Accurately Printed from the ..., Volume 4

William Shakespeare - 1805 - 442 pages
...bell rings. * — — Now o'er the one half world Nature seems dead,] That is, over our hemisphere all action and motion seem to have ceased. This image,...drowsy head ; ' The little birds in dreams their songs repeat, ' And sleeping flow'rs beneath the night dews sweat. ' Even lust and envy sleep !" These lines,...
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The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL.D.

Samuel Johnson - 1806 - 376 pages
...That is, over oar hemisphere all action and motion teem to have ceased. This image, which is perhapi the most striking that poetry can produce, has been...drowsy head ; The little birds in dreams their songs repeat, And sleeping flow'rs beneath the night-dews sweat) Even lust and envy sleep ! These lines,...
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The Plays of William Shakespeare: With the Corrections and ..., Volume 7

William Shakespeare - 1806 - 434 pages
...celehrates3 * — — Jfow o'er the one ialf world Nature seems dead,] That is, iner our hemisphere all action and motion seem to have ceased. This image,...perhaps, the most striking that poetry can produce, has 'heen adopted hy Dryden, in his Conquest of Mexico: ' All things are hush d as Nature's self lay dead,...
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The Plays of William Shakespeare ...: With the Corrections and ..., Volume 7

William Shakespeare - 1806 - 428 pages
...The curtain'd'sleep'S now witchcraft celehrates 3 Nature seems deaJ,] Thai is, over our hemisphere all action and motion seem to have ceased. This image,...perhaps, the most striking- that poetry can produce, lias heen adopted hy Dryden, in his Conquest of Mexico : * Jfcna o'er tie one half world These lines,...
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“The” Plays of William Shakespeare: Accurately Printed from the ..., Volume 7

William Shakespeare - 1806 - 380 pages
...'• New o'er the one half world Natnre seems dead , and &c.] That is, over onr hemisphere all actions and motion seem to have ceased. This image, which is perhaps the most striking that poetry can prodnce , has heen adopted by Dryden in his Conqnest of Mexico : "All things arc hnsh'd as Matnre's...
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The plays of William Shakspeare, with the corrections and illustr ..., Volume 7

William Shakespeare - 1806 - 432 pages
...o'er tte one half world Nature seems dead, ,] That is, over our hemisphere all action and motion teem to have ceased. This image, which is, perhaps, the most striking that poetry can produce, has heen adopted hy Dryden, in his Conqueat of Mexico • " All things are hush'd as Nature's self lay...
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Flowers of literature; for 1801 & 1802(-1805): or, Characteristic ..., Volume 4

Flowers of literature - 1807 - 626 pages
...celebration of mass might take place in secret. K.' DESCRIPTION OF NISHT. " All things are bush'd, as Nature's self lay dead, The mountains seem to nod...drowsy head , The little birds in dreams their songs repeat, And sleeping flowers beneath the night-dew sweat." DHYDEX. How often have I heard the morning...
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