 Sounds and sweet airs, that give delight, and hurt not. Sometimes a thousand twangling instruments Will hum about mine ears ; and sometime voices, That, if I then had waked after long sleep, Will make me sleep again : and then, in dreaming, The clouds...  Journeys Through Bookland - Page 391by Charles H.Sylevester - 1909Full view - About this book
 | Wystan Hugh Auden - Drama - 2002 - 428 pages
...afeard. The isle is full of noises, Sounds and sweet airs that give delight and hurt not. Sometimes a thousand twangling instruments Will hum about mine ears; and sometime voices That, if I then had wak'd after long sleep, Will make me sleep again; and then, in dreaming, The clouds methought would... | |
 | George Wilson Knight - Electronic books - 2002 - 348 pages
...afeard : the isle is full of noises, Sounds and sweet airs, that give delight, and hurt not. Sometimes a thousand twangling instruments Will hum about mine ears; and sometime voices, That, if I then had wak'd after long sleep, The clouds methought would open and show riches Ready to drop upon me ; that,... | |
 | Alexander Leggatt - Literary Criticism - 2002 - 260 pages
...to interiorize their subordination is demonstrated in Caliban's lyrical appreciation of the island: The clouds methought would open, and show riches Ready to drop upon me, that when I wak'd I cried to dream again. (3.2.141-43) Caliban's noises are presumably the musical products of... | |
 | John Whalen - Poetry - 2002 - 86 pages
...\\ ill hum ahout mine ears: and sometimes voices. That. if I then had waked after long sleep. Vi ill make me sleep again: and then. in dreaming. The clouds methought would open. and show riches Heady to drop upon me: that when I waked I cried to dream again. —The Tem{x'st THE HUSTLES' Nil IT... | |
 | Jan Kott - Literary Criticism - 2002 - 282 pages
...twangling instruments / Will hum about mine ears; and sometimes voices / That, if I then had wak'd after a long sleep, / Will make me sleep again: and then, in dreaming, / The clouds methought would operi, and show riches / Ready to drop upon me; that, when I wak'd, / I cried to drra rn again . ]... | |
 | Stanley Wells - Biography & Autobiography - 2003 - 494 pages
...Opposite, bottom. Rosalind in the Forest: a painting of c.i868 by John Everett Millais (1829-96). Rt*t>'>4! in dreaming / The clouds methought would open and show riches / Ready to drop upon me' (The Tempest, 3.2.142—5): Caliban's Dream, by Odilon Redon (1840 — 1916). 24. Above. Mark Rylance... | |
 | Naomi J. Miller - Children - 2003 - 348 pages
...describes: ... the isle is full of noises. Sounds, and sweet airs, that give delight and hurt not. Sometimes a thousand twangling instruments Will hum about mine...show riches Ready to drop upon me, that when I waked 1 cried to dream again. (3.2.133-141) The themes of illusion versus reality and of the uses of art... | |
 | Catherine M. S. Alexander - 488 pages
...delight and hurt not. Sometimes a thousand twangling instruments Will hum about mine ears, and sometimes voices That if I then had waked after long sleep Will...upon me, that when I waked I cried to dream again. (3.2.138-46) Often cited as evidence of natural sensitivity or of the magical atmosphere of the setting,... | |
 | Associazione italiana di anglistica. Congresso - Language Arts & Disciplines - 2003 - 580 pages
...Sometimes a thousand twangling instruments Will hum about mine ears; and sometimes voices That, if I then waked after long sleep, Will make me sleep again;...upon me, that when I waked I cried to dream again (138-46). Despite Caliban's description, the dream-like island is no untouchable harmony. Caliban himself... | |
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