 | Thomas Young Crowell - 1885 - 702 pages
...doth teach us all to render The deeds of merey. CELESTIAL MUSIC. [From .1/z reltaut of Venict.] How sweet the moonlight sleeps upon this bank ! Here will we sit, and let the sounds of music i Creep in our ears : soft stillness and the night Become the touches of sweet harmony. Sit, Jessica.... | |
 | Urias John Hoffman - 1885 - 404 pages
...experience a more ideal sentiment, but he would express himself in language of exquisite beauty : " How 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 touches of sweet harmony." Ideality leads... | |
 | Alfred Hix Welsh - 1885 - 364 pages
...winter, slumbering in the open air, Wears on his smiling face a dream of spring. — Coleridge. How 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 touches of sweet harmony. Sit, Jessica:... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1885 - 136 pages
...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 6 Here we have a clear instance of the first person plural, in the imperative. The Poet has many such.... | |
 | Charles William Macfarlane - 1885 - 110 pages
...unveiled her peerless light, And o'er the dark her silver mantle threw " Paradise Lost, Book IV. " 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 T. Ross - 1887 - 362 pages
...heart with rapture swells Responsive to the bells— sweet bells. Creeds of the Bells. Bungay. 2. 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.... | |
 | 1889 - 934 pages
...seeing sense, It pays the hearing double recompense. 1. Midsummer Night's Dream. Act III. Sc. '2. How sweet the moonlight sleeps upon this bank; Here will we sit, and let the sonnua of imisie Creep in our ears; soft uti'-.i. os: ., imJ tha night, Become the touches of swoct... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1892 - 120 pages
...compare Tempest, V., 1, 277. 36, 37. Note the two imperative forms, — the ancient and the modern. 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.... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1892 - 220 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 6 Here we have a clear instance of the first person plural, in the imperative. The Poet has many such.... | |
 | Edwin Allen Wyman - 1895 - 480 pages
...come out to take the place of the now departing sun. I quoted the lines of the grand old poet : " How sweet the moonlight sleeps upon this bank ! Here will we sit, and let the sounds of music Creep to our ears; soft stillness and the night Become the touches of sweet harmony." " Most befitting... | |
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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... 
