 | Sarah Stickney Ellis - Life - 1835 - 358 pages
...faint dreams that have floated through our own minds a thousand times without finding utterance : " 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 inlay'd with patines... | |
 | Leigh Hunt - English essays - 1835 - 350 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, 1 would dilute and take all... | |
 | Theocritus - English poetry - 1836 - 450 pages
...and the night, Become the touches of sweet harmony. Sit, Jessica : look, how the floor of heaven Is thick inlaid with patines of bright gold ; There's...young-eyed cherubins. Such harmony is in immortal souls ; But whilst this muddy vesture of decay Doth grossly close us in, we cannot hear it." " Cedite, Romani... | |
 | Frances Maclellan - 1836 - 352 pages
...Words are surely more powerful to paint than colours. " How sweet the moonlight sleeps upon this wave. Here will we sit, and let the sounds of music Creep...of sweet harmony. Look how the floor of heaven Is thick inlaid with patines of bright gold." These words realized a description of the view before us,... | |
 | Hermann Bokum - Children - 1836 - 116 pages
...delight the Stranger has experienced what Shakspeare perhaps has only thought, when he says — How sweet the moonlight sleeps upon this bank. Here will...our ears ; soft stillness, and the night, Become the touches of sweet harmony. Without it — with all your astonishing and almost miraculous progress in... | |
 | Mrs. Charles Meredith - Botanical illustration - 1836 - 400 pages
...have music ; let that sweet breath, at least, Give us her airy welcome. BEAUMONT AND FLKTCHI«. How sweet the moonlight sleeps upon this bank ! Here will...our ears ; soft stillness and the night Become the touches of sweet harmony. And at the last, the bird began to sing So passing swetely, that, by many... | |
 | BIBLIOTHEQUE ANGLO-FRANCAISE - 1836 - 648 pages
...sera ici avant le matin. ( II sort. ) And bring your music forth into the air. (Exit STEPHANO.) How sweet the moon-light sleeps upon this bank ! Here...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... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1836 - 554 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 patines... | |
 | Thomas Miller - Country life - 1837 - 466 pages
...willow in her hand, Upon the wild sea -banks ; in such a night Medea gather'd the enchanted herb. How sweet the moonlight sleeps upon this bank ! Here will...of sweet harmony. Look how the floor of heaven Is thick inlaid with patines of bright gold ! There 's not the smallest orb which thou beholdest, But... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1838 - 484 pages
...subservient to it, till it becomes the sole tyrant of our desires and our aversions." LESSING. PAINTINGS OF NATURE AND THE PASSIONS. How sweet the moon-light...of sweet harmony. Look, how the floor of heaven Is thick inlaid with patines" of bright gold; There 's not the smallest orb which thou behold' st, But... | |
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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... 
