 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 of...  Poetical Quotations from Chaucer to Tennyson - Page 370by Samuel Austin Allibone - 1878 - 772 pagesFull view - About this book
 | William Shakespeare, Thomas Price - 1839 - 478 pages
...the sole tyrant of our desires and our aversions." LXSSINO. PAINTINGS NATURE AND THE PASSIONS. How sweet the moonlight sleeps upon this bank ! Here will...our ears ; soft stillness, and the night, Become the touches of sweet harmony. Look, how the floor of heaven Is thick inlaid with patines* of bright gold... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1839 - 550 pages
...Within the house, your mistress is at hand ; And bring your music forth into the air.— [Exit STE. How sweet the moonlight sleeps upon this bank! Here will...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... | |
 | English poetry - 1840 - 372 pages
...a night Did pretty Jessica, like a little shrew, Slander her love, and he forgave it her* Lor. How sweet the moonlight sleeps upon this bank ! Here will...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... | |
 | George BARRET - Watercolor painting - 1840 - 152 pages
...Shakspeare describes with so much truth and beauty in the Merchant of Venice, when Lorenzo remarks, " How sweet the moonlight sleeps upon this bank ! Here will...our ears; soft stillness, and the night, Become the touches of sweet harmony." There is also another great error that I have observed, which consists in... | |
 | Frederick Coombs - Phrenology - 1841 - 178 pages
...Location — immediately above Number ; indicated by width of lower temples. THE SIUSIC OP NATURE. How sweet the moonlight sleeps upon this bank ! Here will...our ears ; soft stillness and the night Become the touches of sweet harmony. Sit, Ipv'd one ; look how the floor of heaven Is thick inlaid with patines... | |
 | Charles Knight - 1843 - 566 pages
...above the earth by thoughts which he afterwards expressed in lines of wondrous loveliness : — " How sweet the moonlight sleeps upon this bank ! Here will...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 of... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1843 - 658 pages
...the house, your mistress is at hand ; And bring your music forth into the air. [Exit STEPHANO. How sweet the moonlight sleeps upon this bank ! Here will...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 of... | |
 | John Goldsbury, William Russell - Elocution - 1844 - 444 pages
...median stress '; ' smooth ' and ' pure 1 quality ' of tone ; and moderate inflections. Example. " How sweet the moonlight sleeps upon this bank ! Here will...our ears ! soft stillness, and the night, Become the touches of sweet harmony. 5 Look how the floor of heaven Is thick inlaid with patines of bright gdld... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1844 - 374 pages
...house, your mistress is at hand ; And bring your music forth into the air. — [Exit Stephano. How sweet the moonlight sleeps upon this bank ! Here will...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 patines1... | |
 | Sarah Stickney Ellis - English literature - 1844 - 522 pages
...dreams that have floated through our own minds a thousand times without finding utterance : " How tweet the moonlight sleeps upon this bank ! Here will we...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 of... | |
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