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" Be not 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... "
Sketch of the life of Shakespeare. Tempest. Two Gentlemen of Verona. Merry ... - Page 19
by William Shakespeare - 1848
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Letters We Never Sent

David Philip Reiter - Biography & Autobiography - 2000 - 146 pages
...forever—bad mistake we made that day! Be not afeard, the isle is full of noises, Sounds, and sweet airs, that give delight and hurt not. Sometimes a...riches Ready to drop upon me, that when I wak'd I cried to dream again. — The Tempest If only I could paint this! The man who was to become a new chief...
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The Vanishing: Shakespeare, the Subject, and Early Modern Culture

Christopher Pye - Drama - 2000 - 220 pages
...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,...riches Ready to drop upon me, that when I wak'd I cried to dream again.17 With its drifting voices and airs, this is, of course, a magic space, not a...
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On Post-Colonial Futures: Transformations of a Colonial Culture

Bill Ashcroft - History - 2001 - 177 pages
...Trinculo and Stephano hear Ariel's music: Be not afeard; the isle is full of noises, Sounds and sweet airs, that give delight, and hurt not. Sometimes a...riches Ready to drop upon me; that, when I wak'd, I cried to dream again. (Ill, ii, 132-41) Whereas Prospero uses music to charm, punish and generally...
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The Flight of the Vernacular: Seamus Heaney, Derek Walcott and the Impress ...

Maria Cristina Fumagalli - Literary Criticism - 2001 - 332 pages
...recalling Caliban's words in The Tempest. Be not afeard; the isle is full of noises, Sounds, and sweet airs, that give delight, and hurt not. Sometimes a...riches Ready to drop upon me; that when I wak'd, I cried to dream again. (Hl.ii. The allusion to Caliban's speech is of particular significance. Lately,...
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The Wisdom of Shakespeare

William Shakespeare - Quotations, English - 2002 - 244 pages
...its sweet air. Ferdinand — Tempest I.ii Be not afeard; the isle is full of noises, Sounds and sweet airs, that give delight and hurt not. Sometimes a...riches Ready to drop upon me, that, when I wak'd, I cried to dream again. Caliban — Tempest IIIM Orpheus with his lute made trees, And the mountain tops...
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Lectures on Shakespeare

Wystan Hugh Auden - Drama - 2002 - 428 pages
...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,...riches Ready to drop upon me, that, when I wak'd, I cried to dream again. (III. ii. 144-52) Caliban wishes to go back to unconsciousness. Gonzalo, on the...
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Christ and the Media

Malcolm Muggeridge - Religion - 2003 - 132 pages
...delight, and hurt not, Sometimes a thousand twanging instruments Will hum about mine ears; and sometime voices That, if I then had wak'd after long sleep,...riches Ready to drop upon me; that, when I wak'd, I cried to sleep again. Thus the viewer, except that he never does wake, and so has no occasion to cry...
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Shakespeare and the French Poet

Yves Bonnefoy - Literary Criticism - 2004 - 304 pages
...is full of melodious sounds. "Be not afeard," he says, the isle is full of noises, Sounds and sweet airs that give delight, and hurt not. Sometimes a...riches Ready to drop upon me, that, when I wak'd, I cried to dream again. And we can only be troubled when we hear these lines, and we have to ask: what...
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Masculinist Impulses: Toomer, Hurston, Black Writing, and Modernity

Nathan Grant - Literary Criticism - 2004 - 253 pages
...is full of noises, Sometimes a thousand twangling instruments Will hum about mine ears; and sometime voices, That if I then had wak'd after long sleep,...riches Ready to drop upon me, that when I wak'd I cried to dream again. (III. ii. 135— 43) 15. "Brother mine" was an endearment exchanged between Toomer...
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What Good are the Arts?

John Carey - Art - 2006 - 300 pages
...mariners in The Tempest is a case in point: Be not afeard, the isle is full of noises, Sounds, and sweet airs, that give delight, and hurt not. Sometimes a...riches Ready to drop upon me, that, when I wak'd, I cried to dream again. [m ii 144-52] Nothing is distinct here. Definition is carefully avoided at every...
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