 | William S. Forrest - 1853 - 522 pages
...occasions, a promenade on the battlement of the fortress gives life and vigour to the entire system." " How sweet the moonlight sleeps upon this bank! Here will we sit, and let the sound of music Creep in our ears ; soft stillness, and the night, Become the touches of sweet harmony."... | |
 | William S. Forrest - 1853 - 498 pages
...occasions, a promenade on the battlement of the fortress gives life and vigour to the entire system." " How sweet the moonlight sleeps upon this bank ! Here will we sit, and let the sound of music Creep in our ears ; soft stillness, and the night, Become the touches of sweet harmony."... | |
 | Yankee humour - 1853 - 154 pages
...wide-spreading landscape — every bush, tree and brown old barn ! How sweetly its mild lustre reposes upon this bank ! Here will we sit, and let the sounds of midnight music creep into our ears. What do we hear? — hark: a persevering whippoorwill re-reiterates... | |
 | 1854 - 478 pages
...solemn and vast iu it« effect. What a picture does Shak~|>eare give us of moonlight : — • " How sweet the moonlight sleeps upon this bank ! Here will we sit, and let the sounds of music Creep iu our curs ; soft stillness, and the night, becomes the touches of sweet harmony. Sit, Jessica.... | |
 | Sarah Josepha Buell Hale - 1855 - 612 pages
...little paler ; Ч is a day, Sueh as the day is when the sun is hid. Shaks. Merehant of Veniee. How sweet the moonlight sleeps upon this bank ! Here will we sit, and let the sounds of musie Creep in our ears ; soft stillness, and the night, Beeome the touehes of sweet harmony. Shaks.... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1857 - 710 pages
...not belongs to you. K. HENRY IV., PART II., A. 4, S. 1. THE LEVER OF FUTURE PROGRESS. LOBENZO. How sweet the moon-light sleeps upon this bank ! Here will we sit, and let the sounds of musick Creep in our ears ; soft stillness, and the night, Become the touches of sweet harmony. Sit,... | |
 | Leigh Hunt - 1859 - 554 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 we sit, and let the sound of music Creep in our ears: soft stillness, and the night. Become the touches of sweet harmony.... | |
 | John Connery - 1861 - 416 pages
...down a corse. The following is a beautiful example of the gradual increase of softness. How the sweet moonlight sleeps upon this bank ! Here will we sit, and let the sound of music Creep in our ears ; soft stillness and the night Become the touches of sweet harmony.... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1863 - 492 pages
...the 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 we sit, and let the sounds of music 55 Creep in our ears : soft stillness and the night Become the touches of sweet harmony. Sit, Jessica.... | |
 | 1863 - 230 pages
...has disappeared in the west ; but the moon sits in turn the arbitress of heaven. And now — " How sweet the moonlight sleeps upon this bank; Here will we sit, and let the sounds ot.nmsic Creep in our ears; soft stillness and the nigtit, Becomes the touches of sweet harmony." Such... | |
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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 bright gold : There's not the smallest orb which thou behold'st... 
