| Sir John Forbes, Alexander Tweedie, John Conolly - Medicine - 1834 - 774 pages
...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... | |
| Leigh Hunt - English essays - 1835 - 350 pages
...moonlight : — 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...harmony. Now a foreign translator, of the ordinary kind, 1 would dilute and take all taste and freshness out of this draught of poetry, in a style somewhat... | |
| Sarah Stickney Ellis - Life - 1835 - 358 pages
...utterance : " 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 inlay'd with patines... | |
| Theocritus - English poetry - 1836 - 450 pages
...though the bank is not described, the poet has contrived to make it holy to our apprehension : — " 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... | |
| Theocritus (of Syracuse) - 1836 - 436 pages
...though the bank is not described, the poet has contrived to make it holy to our apprehension : — " 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... | |
| Mrs. Charles Meredith - Botanical illustration - 1836 - 400 pages
...l-'il r'r nnr How sweet the moonlight sleeps upon thia 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. SlIAISFKARK. And at the last, the bird began to sing So passing swetely,... | |
| Hermann Bokum - Children - 1836 - 116 pages
...when he says — 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. Without it — with all your astonishing and almost miraculous progress in... | |
| Mrs. Charles Meredith - Botanical illustration - 1836 - 400 pages
...AND FLKTCHI«. 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. And at the last, the bird began to sing So passing swetely, that, by many... | |
| BIBLIOTHEQUE ANGLO-FRANCAISE - 1836 - 648 pages
...(Exit STEPHANO.) How sweet the moon-light 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... | |
| Frances Maclellan - 1836 - 352 pages
...than colours. " How sweet the moonlight sleeps upon this wave. 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. Look how the floor of heaven Is thick inlaid with patines of bright gold."... | |
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