Sleeping at Last http://classiclit.about.com/library/bl-etexts/crossetti/bl-crossetti-sleep.htm, st. 1 (1893) .
“The last refuge of the insomniac is a sense of superiority to the sleeping world.”
Introduction
Postwar: A History of Europe Since 1945 (2005)
“And last of all comes death.”
Odes, L. (XL VIII.), 28.
“I'm doped and thick from my last sleeping pill.”
Source: Ariel: The Restored Edition
“At last incapable of further harm,
The lewd forefathers of the village sleep.”
If Gray had had to write his Elegy in the Cemetery of Spoon River instead of in that of Stoke Poges.
“Don’t tell me your name. It’s likely to awaken my conscience, and that’s the last thing we want.”
Source: Ten Things I Love About You
The Tragic Sense of Life (1913), X : Religion, the Mythology of the Beyond and the Apocatastasis
“The first and final thing you have to do in this world is to last it and not be smashed by it.”
