...'median stress'; 'smooth' and 'pure' ' quality ' of tone ; and moderate inflections. Example. " How sweet the moonlight sleeps upon this bank ! Here will...Creep in our ears ! soft stillness, and the night, Bec&me the touches of sweet harmony. : 5 Look how the floor of heaven But | in his motion | like an...

...in the Merchant of Venice seat themselves on a bank by moonlight : — How sweet the moonlight slaps upon this bank ! Here will we sit, and let the sounds...our ears ; soft stillness, and the night, Become the touches of sweet harmony. Now a foreign translator, of the ordinary kind, would dilute and take all...

...the sleeping woods all night Singeth a quiet tune.' Or that glorious passage in Shakespeare — ' How sweet the moonlight sleeps upon this bank! Here will...with 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 cherubim;...

...numberharmony, was evident in such passages as this one from Shakespeare's Merchant of Venice (V, i): "How sweet the moonlight sleeps upon this bank! / Here...music / Creep in our ears: soft stillness and the night/Become the touches of sweet harmony." According to Wellek, the Renaissance poets and dramatists...

...shot madly from their spheres, To hear the sea-maid's music. (A Midsummer Night's Dream, II. i.) How sweet the moonlight sleeps upon this bank! Here will...with patines of bright gold: There's not the smallest orb which thou behold'st OOSP, OHSP, AWSP, AHSP, AYSP, EESP. OOST, OHST, AWST, AHST, AYST, ESST. OOSK,...

...Tritt, zB in den folgenden Versen aus dem Kaufmann von Venedig, die Lorenzo zu Jessica spricht: How sweet the moonlight sleeps upon this bank! Here will...with patines of bright gold: There's not the smallest orb which thou behold'st But in his motion like an angel sings, Still choiring to the young-eyed cherubins....

...our ears,' go with the perception of a gracious universe such as Portia's mercy speech invoked: How sweet the moonlight sleeps upon this bank! Here will...harmony. Sit, Jessica. Look how the floor of heaven Is thick inlaid with patens of bright gold. There's not the smallest orb which thou behold'st But in his...

...heralded the coming of Bassanio. There is a brief interlude of anticipation, filled by Lorenzo: How sweet the moonlight sleeps upon this bank! Here will...our ears. Soft stillness and the night Become the touches of sweet harmony. (54-57) What stays visible, upward not earthward, is seen in configurations...

...that to dislike music is to be untrustworthy, and, indeed, to be out of touch with the divine: How sweet the moonlight sleeps upon this bank! Here will...our ears. Soft stillness and the night Become the touches of sweet harmony. . . . There's not the smallest orb which thou behold'st But in his motion...

...idea of a spirit world, so uncanny in itself. So Shakespeare has a character in the South say: "How sweet the moonlight sleeps upon this bank! / Here...our ears: soft stillness and the night / Become the touches of sweet harmony."34 Yet it remains black magic, music does, and still profoundly near to the...