honey-heavy

In the past week, we have completed Act II where troubled Brutus enviously looks at his sleeping servant Lucius and comments “enjoy the honey-heavy dew of slumber” and Caius Ligarius is willing to follow Brutus with a “heart new-fired.”

The Right Word in the Right Place at the Right Time William Safire 2004

In the past week, we have completed Act II where troubled Brutus enviously looks at his sleeping servant Lucius and comments “enjoy the honey-heavy dew of slumber” and Caius Ligarius is willing to follow Brutus with a “heart new-fired.”

The Right Word in the Right Place at the Right Time William Safire 2004

Claude could remember warm spring days when the plum bushes were all in blossom and Mahailey used to lie down under them and sing to herself, as if the honey-heavy sweetness made her drowsy; songs without words, for the most part, though he recalled one mountain dirge which said over and over, “And they laid Jesse James in his grave.

III. Book One: On Lovely Creek 1922

Claude could remember warm spring days when the plum bushes were all in blossom and Mahailey used to lie down under them and sing to herself, as if the honey-heavy sweetness made her drowsy; songs without words, for the most part, though he recalled one mountain dirge which said over and over, "And they laid Jesse James in his grave."

One of Ours Willa Sibert Cather 1910

It is as if "the honey-heavy dew of slumber" had settled on his pen in writing these lines.

Lectures on the English Poets Delivered at the Surrey Institution William Hazlitt 1804

In a movie where businessmen are dryly humorous, several million dollars are devoted to a man's daddy-issues, and Dom's nostalgic love for family is symbolized through a honey-heavy shot of golden light haloing his young moppets 'heads, the wooden-ness and flatness of the lines offered these characters is startlingly noticeable.

the Hathor Legacy 2010

The 'dew of slumber' is called 'heavy' because it makes the subject feel heavy, and 'honey-heavy,' because the heaviness it induces is sweet.

The New Hudson Shakespeare: Julius Cæsar William Shakespeare 1590

a little, 825. again, too soon I must, 302. honey-heavy dew of, 111. lie still and, 302. seven hours to soothing, 438. to mine eyelids, 824.

Familiar Quotations A Collection of Passages, Phrases, and Proverbs Traced to Their Sources in Ancient and Modern Literature John Bartlett 1862

I, vii, 81.] [Note 230: The compound epithet, 'honey-heavy,' is very expressive and apt.

The New Hudson Shakespeare: Julius Cæsar William Shakespeare 1590