He finds his fellow guilty of a skin
Not color’d like his own, and having pow’r
T’ enforce the wrong, for such a worthy cause
Dooms and devotes him as his lawful prey.
1723
COWPER: Task, Bk. ii., Line 12.
Corrupted freemen are the worst of slaves. 1724 DAVID GARRICK: Prologue to the Gamesters.
Whatever day
Makes man a slave, takes half his worth away.
1725
POPE: Odyssey, Bk. xvii., Line 392.
=Sleep.=
We are such stuff
As dreams are made on; and our little life
Is rounded with a sleep.
1726
SHAKS.: Tempest, Act iv., Sc. 1.
Sleep, that knits up the ravell’d sleave of care, The death of each day’s life, sore labor’s bath, Balm of hurt minds, great nature’s second course, Chief nourisher in life’s feast. 1727 SHAKS.: Macbeth, Act ii., Sc. 2.
Come, sleep, O sleep! the certain knot of peace, The baiting-place of wit, the balm of woe; The poor man’s wealth, the prisoner’s release, The impartial judge between the high and low. 1728 SIR PHILIP SIDNEY: Astrophel and Stella, St. 39.
Tired nature’s sweet restorer, balmy sleep! He, like the world, his ready visit pays Where fortune smiles—the wretched he forsakes. 1729 YOUNG: Night Thoughts, Night i., Line 1.
O magic sleep! O comfortable bird
That broodest o’er the troubled sea of the mind
Till it is hush’d and smooth!
1730
KEATS: Endymion, Line 456.
Sleep hath its own world,
A boundary between the things misnamed
Death and existence: Sleep hath its own world,
And a wide realm of wild reality.
1731
BYRON: Dream, Line 1.
Sleep the sleep that knows not breaking,
Morn of toil, nor night of waking.
1732
SCOTT: Lady of the Lake, Canto i., St.
31.
Of all the thoughts of God that are
Borne inward into souls afar,
Along the Psalmist’s music deep,
Now tell me if that any is,
For gift or grace, surpassing this—
“He giveth His beloved sleep”?
1733
MRS. BROWNING: Sleep.
Be thy sleep
Silent as night is, and as deep.
1734
LONGFELLOW: Christus, Golden Legend, Pt.
ii.
Sleep will bring thee dreams in starry number— Let him come to thee and be thy guest. 1735 AYTOUN: Hermotimus.
=Sloth.=
Sloth views the towers of Fame with envious eyes, Desirous still, but impotent to rise. 1736 SHENSTONE: Moral Pieces.
=Sluggard.=
’T is the voice of the sluggard; I heard him complain, “You have waked me too soon, I must slumber again.” 1737 WATTS: The Sluggard.
=Smiles.=
One may smile, and smile, and be a villain. 1738 SHAKS.: Hamlet, Act i., Sc. 5.
With the smile that was childlike and bland. 1739 BRET HARTE: Plain Language from Truthful James.