4. Come sleep, O sleep! the certain knot of peace, SIR PHILIP SIDNEY. 5. Dreams are but interludes, which fancy makes ; 6. Tir'd nature's sweet restorer, balmy sleep! DRYDEN. YOUNG'S Night Thoughts. 7. When tir'd with vain rotations of the day, Sleep winds us up for the succeeding dawn. 8. YOUNG'S Night Thoughts. Kind sleep affords The only boon the wretched mind can feel; MURPHY. 9. Oh! thou best comforter of the sad heart, The eyes which sorrow taught to watch and weep. 10. Sleep is no servant of the will; It has caprices of its own: BOWRING-From the Spanish. 11. To each and all, a fair good-night, And rosy dreams, and slumbers light! SCOTT. 208 DREAMS-SLEEP. 12. Well may dreams present us fictions, Since our waking moments teem With such fanciful convictions, As make life itself a dream. 13. Tho' 't is all but a dream at the best, And still when happiest soonest o'er, Yet e'en in a dream to be blest, Is so sweet that I ask for no more. CAMPBELL. MOORE. 14. Again in that accustom'd couch must creep, BYRON'S Lara. 15. My slumbers—if I slumber · are not sleep, But a continuance of enduring thought, Which then I can resist not. BYRON'S Manfred. 16. I would recall a vision which I dream'd, BYRON'S Dream. 17. And dreams in their development have breath, BYRON'S Dream. 18. The sweet siesta of a summer's day. 19. Alas! that dreams are only dreams! That fancy cannot give A lasting beauty to those forms, Which scarce a moment live! 20. But ah! 't is gone, 't is gone, and never Mine such waking bliss can be; BYRON'S Island. Oh! I would sleep, would sleep for ever, Could I thus but dream of thee! RUFUS DAWES. FRISBIE. 21. Where his thoughts on the pinions of fancy shall roam, And in slumber revisit his love and his home When the eyes of affection with tenderness gleam ;— 22. When sleep's calm wing is on my brow, And dreams of peace my spirit lull, Before me, like a misty star, That form floats dim and beautiful. W. KELLY. G. D. PRENTICE. 23. Strange is the power of dreams! who has not felt, MRS. NORTON's Dream. DRESS. (See APPAREL.) 210 DRINKING-WINE, &c. 1. DRINKING - WINE - TEMPERANCE, &c. A surfeit of the sweetest things The deepest loathing to the stomach brings. 2. Oh, that men should put an enemy in SHAKSPEARE. Their mouths, to steal away their brains! that we 3. They were red-hot with drinking ; SHAKSPEARE. So full of valour, that they smote the air For breathing in their faces; beat the ground 4. Though I look old, yet I am strong and lusty; SHAKSPEARE. SHAKSPEARE. 5. In what thou eat'st and drinkest, seek from thence Due nourishment, not gluttonous delight; 6. So thou may'st live till, like ripe fruit, thou drop Gather'd, not harshly pluck'd, for death mature. For swinish gluttony Ne'er looks to heaven amidst her gorgeous feast, Crams, and blasphemes his feeder. MILTON. MILTON'S Comus. 7. 8. 9. If all the world Should, in a pet of Temperance, feed on pulse, And we should serve him as a grudging master, MILTON'S Comus. Nature, good cateress, MILTON'S Comus. The modest maid But coyly sips, and blushing drinks, abash'd. 10. He, who the rules of temperance neglects, From a good cause may produce vile effects. SOMERVILE. 11. If men would shun swoln fortune's ruinous blasts, Let them use temperance: nothing violent lasts. - TUKE. W. STRACHEY. 12. The joy which wine can give, like smoky fires, Obscures their sight, whose fancy it inspires. AARON HILL. 13. "Tis to thy rules, O Temperance! that we owe 14. Earth's coarsest bread, the garden's humblest roots, BYRON'S Corsair. |