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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. "
On the Beauties, Harmonies, and Sublimities of Nature: With Occasional ... - Page 287
by Charles Bucke - 1823
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Observations on the Popular Antiquities of Great Britain: Chiefly ..., Volume 3

John Brand, Henry Ellis - Christian antiquities - 1849 - 520 pages
...its witchery the truth of the same poet's description : " 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."] MAN IN THE MOON. THIS is...
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The Complete Works of William Shakespeare

William Shakespeare - Drama - 1996 - 1290 pages
...hand; And bring your music forth into the air. [Exit STEPHANO. How sweet the moonlight sleeps upon this 3 ears: soft stillness and the night Become the touches of sweet harmony. Sit, Jessica. Look, how the...
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Shakespeare in Opera, Ballet, Orchestral Music, and Song: An Introduction to ...

Arthur Graham - Literary Criticism - 1997 - 244 pages
...is sufficiently high to be worthy of our attention today. "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. Look, how the floor of heaven...
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Shakespeare Among the Moderns

Richard Halpern - Drama - 1997 - 308 pages
...speeches such as the one by Lorenzo at the opening of act 5? 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. 92. Horkheimer and Adorno,...
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Bright Colors Falsely Seen: Synaesthesia and the Search for Transcendental ...

Kevin T. Dann - Psychology - 1998 - 252 pages
...as this one from Shakespeare's Merchant of Venice (V, i): "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." According to Wellek, the Renaissance...
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The Wordsworth Dictionary of Quotations

Connie Robertson - Reference - 1998 - 686 pages
...to judgement! yea, a Daniel! 10404 The Merchant of Venice How sweet the moonlight sleeps upon this Though leaves are many, the root is one; ears. 10405 The Merchant ofVenice I am never merry when I hear sweet music. 10406 The Merchant ofVenice...
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Classical Mythology in English Literature: A Critical Anthology

Geoffrey Miles - Fiction - 1999 - 476 pages
...monster, often ideraified with the whale. LORENZO: . . . How sweet the moonlight sleeps upon this hank! 55 Here will we sit, and let the sounds of music Creep in our ears. Soft stillness and the night Become0 the touches0 of sweet harmony. Sit, Jessica. Look how the...
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The Renaissance in Europe: A Reader

Keith Whitlock - History - 2000 - 388 pages
...a gracious universe such as Portia's mercy speech invoked: 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...
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The Spirit of Utopia

Philosophy - 2000 - 326 pages
...itself. So Shakespeare has a character in the South say: "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."34 Yet it remains black magic,...
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Masqued Mysteries Unmasked: Early Modern Music Theater and Its Pythagorean ...

Kristin Rygg - Ballet - 2000 - 310 pages
...Lorenzo's speech to Jessica in the moonlit garden of Belmont: 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...
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