How sweet the moonlight sleeps upon this bank ! Here will we sit, and let the sounds of music Creep in our ears ; soft stillness, and the night, Become the touches of sweet harmony. Sit, Jessica : Look, how the floor of heaven Is thick inlaid with patines'... A School Grammar of the English Language - Page 164by Edward Archibald Allen - 1900 - 169 pagesFull view - About this book
| William Shakespeare, George Steevens - 1829 - 506 pages
...house, your mistress is at hand ; And bring your music forth into the air. — [Exit Stephane. How sweet the moonlight sleeps upon this bank ! Here will...sit, and let the sounds of music Creep in our ears ; sou stillness, and the night, Become the touches of sweet harmony. Sit, Jessica : Look, how the floor... | |
| George Barrell Cheever - American poetry - 1830 - 516 pages
...clown ' Uneasy lies the head that wears a crown. , MOONLKiHT AND MUSIC. Lorenzo and Jessica. Lor. How sweet the moonlight sleeps upon this bank '. Here...harmony. Sit, Jessica : Look, how the floor of heaven Is thick inlaid with pattens of bright gold ; There 's not the smallest orb, which thou behold'st. But... | |
| William Shakespeare, William Harness - 1830 - 484 pages
...house, your mistress is at hand : And bring your musick forth into the air. — [Exit STEPHANO. How sweet the moon-light sleeps upon this bank ! Here will we sit, and let the sounds of musick Creep in our ears ; soft stillness, and the night, Become the touches of sweet harmony. Sit,... | |
| William Shakespeare - 1831 - 554 pages
...house, your mistress is at hand ; Ami bring your music forth into the air. — [Exit Stephane. How sweet the moonlight sleeps upon this bank ! Here will...our ears ; soft stillness, and the night, Become the touches of sweet harmony. Si', Jessica: Look, how the floor of heaven I» thick inlaid with patines'... | |
| William Shakespeare - 1831 - 500 pages
...house, your mistress is at hand ; And brine your music forth into the air. — [Exit Stephano. How sweet the moonlight sleeps upon this bank! Here will...sit, and let the sounds of music Creep in our ears ; soil stillness, and the night, Become the touches of sweet harmonv. Sit, Jessica : Look, how the... | |
| 1847 - 558 pages
...saws ") play the chief parts, wo would rather object to follow too literally the bard when he says " Here will we sit, and let the sounds of music Creep in our ears." At DRURY LANE Alfred the Great — in his own conceit — has been actually floundering about, assisting... | |
| 1833 - 444 pages
...object but seems to be at rest; and the musing wanderer can scarce forbear to exclaim with Lorenzo ; How sweet the moon-light sleeps upon this bank! Here will...harmony. Sit, Jessica; look how the floor of heaven Is thick inlaid with patterns of bright gold ; There's not the smallest orb, which thou behold'st, But... | |
| 1833 - 984 pages
...dull and vulgar mind caa neither see or understand. " How sweet the moonlight sleeps upon this bank ! Sit Jessica : look how the floor of heaven Is thick...patines of bright gold ! There's not the smallest orb which thou bchold'st, But in his motion like an angel sings, Still quiring to the young-eyed cherubims... | |
| Leigh Hunt - 1834 - 342 pages
...instance, where the lovers in the Merchant of Venice seat themselves on a bank by moonlight : — How sweet the moonlight sleeps upon this bank ! Here will...our ears ; soft stillness, and the night, Become the touches of sweet harmony. Now a foreign translator, of the ordinary kind, would dilute and take all... | |
| Sir John Forbes, Alexander Tweedie, John Conolly - Medicine - 1834 - 774 pages
...of evening is highly favourable to the employment of music as a soporific agent ; •* — let thp sounds of music Creep in our ears ; soft stillness, and the night Become the touches of sweet harmony." And when sleep is induced, there is much less likelthood of its being disturbed... | |
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