 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...  The Dramatic Works of Shakespeare - Page 169by William Shakespeare - 1824 - 830 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Joseph Payne - 1845 - 490 pages
...do feel the injury. Lorenzo and Jessica speak. How sweet the moonlight sleeps4 upon this bank ! Here will we sit, and let the sounds of music Creep in...harmony. Sit, Jessica ; look how the floor of heaven Is thick inlaid with patines5 of bright gold ; There's not6 the smallest orb which thou behold'st, But... | |
 | Leigh Hunt - 1845 - 372 pages
...sweet the moonlight sleeps upon the bank! Here will we sil, and let the sounds of musick Creep into our ears ; soft stillness and the night, .Become the...patines* of bright gold; There's not the smallest orb which thou behold'st, i2 * Patinea (Pdtine, Pat£ne, Itdl.') have been generally understood to... | |
 | Leigh Hunt - English poetry - 1845 - 292 pages
...sweet the moonlight sleeps upon the bank ! Here will we sit, and let the sounds of music Creep into our ears ; soft stillness and the night, Become the...patines* of bright gold ; There's not the smallest orb which thou behold'st,12 But in her motion like an angel sings, Still quiring to the young-eyed... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1846 - 560 pages
...hand; And bring your music forth into the air.— How sweet the moonlight sleeps upon this bank! Here will we sit, and let the sounds of music Creep in...patines* of bright gold. There's not the smallest orb, which thou behold'st, But in his motion like an angel sings, Still quiring to the young-eyed cherubins;... | |
 | William Chambers, Robert Chambers - Art - 1846 - 928 pages
...Signifying nothing. -Macbeth. POWER OF MUSIC. How sweet the moonlight sleeps upon this hank ! Here will we sit, and let the sounds of music Creep in...patines of bright gold ; There's not the smallest orb which thou beholdest, But in his motion like an angel sings, Still quiring to the young-eyed cherubim.... | |
 | Eliphalet L. Rice - American literature - 1846 - 432 pages
...sweet the moonlight sleeps upon this bank ! Here will we sit and let the sounds of music Creep into our ears ; soft stillness and the night, Become the...patines of bright gold ; There's not the smallest orb which thou behold'st, But in her motion like an angel sings, Still quiring to the young-eyed cherubims:... | |
 | Robert Chambers - Authors, English - 1847 - 712 pages
...Slander her love, and he forgave it her. • * • How sweet the moonlight sleeps upon this bank ! Here d hope had raised Ambition ! Yet why not ! — some other power As great might have upir'd, orb which thou behold'st, But in his motion like an angel sings, Still quiring to the young-eyed chérubins... | |
 | Robert Aspland - 1847 - 792 pages
...combination with the power of musical art : " How sweet the moon-light sleeps upon this bank ! Here will we sit, and let the sounds of music Creep in...patines of bright gold ; There's not the smallest orb, which thou behold'st, But in hie motion like an angel sings, Still quiring to the young-eyed chcrubims... | |
 | Robert Chambers - English literature - 1847 - 712 pages
...Slander her IOTC, and he forgaTe it her. * * * How sweet the moonlight sleeps upon this bank ! Here × X B~! thick inlaid with patincs of bright gold ; There's not the smallest orb which thou behold'st, But in... | |
 | Book - English poetry - 1847 - 206 pages
...object cannot live. ST COLERIDGE. MUSIC. LORENZO. How sweet the moonlight sleeps upon this bank ! Here will we sit, and let the sounds of music Creep in...harmony. Sit, Jessica : look, how the floor of heaven Is thick inlay'd with patines of bright gold ; There's not the smallest orb which thou behold'st But in... | |
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