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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... "
The gallery of nature: a tour through creation - Page 5
by Thomas Milner - 1860
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The Dramatic Works of William Shakspeare: To which are Added His ...

William Shakespeare - 1821 - 516 pages
...into the air.— {Exit Stephana. i How sweet the moon-light sleeps upon this bank I Here will we set, and let the sounds of music Creep in our ears ; soft stillness and the night, Becomes the touches of sweet harmony. Sit, Jessica : look how the floor of heaven ; Is thick inlaid...
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Blighted Ambition, Or, The Rise and Fall of the Earl of Somerset: A Romance ...

1822 - 382 pages
...as if listening to these etherial symphonies : — " How sweet the moonlight sleeps upon the bank ! Here will we sit, and let the sounds of music Creep...our ears. Soft stillness and the night Become the touches of sweet harmony." • This the reader will say belongs to Lorenzo's order to Stephano to bring...
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On the Beauties, Harmonies, and Sublimities of Nature: With ..., Volume 1

Charles Bucke - 1823 - 408 pages
...garden, accosts her after the following manner:— • How sweet the moonlight sleeps upon the 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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A dictionary of quotations from the British poets, by the author of The ...

British poets - 1824 - 676 pages
...'tis a day, Such as the day is when the sua is hid. How sweet the moon-light sleeps upon this bank ! Here will we sit, and let the sounds of music Creep...our ears ; soft stillness, and the night, Become the touches of sweet harmony. In such a night, did Young Lorenzo swear he lov'd her well ; Stealing her...
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The Philomathic journal, Volume 1

Philomathic institution - 1824 - 522 pages
...in these familiar expressions : " How swn-t the MOON-LIGHT sleeps upon this bank; Here will \ve sit, and let the sounds of music Creep in our ears; soft stillness and the night Become the touches of sweet harmony." There is no strict analogy between the southern breeze, or the odours of...
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The Inheritance, Volume 1

Susan Ferrier - 1824 - 396 pages
...boldly presented his brush head to the evening air. " How sweet the moonlight! sleeps upon this bank ! Here will we sit, and let the sounds of music Creep in our ears—" spouted Mr. Augustus, as he handed the ladies into the carriage. They bowed and drove off. CHAPTER...
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The Dramatic Works of Shakespeare

William Shakespeare - 1824 - 882 pages
...your music forthiuto the air, — [ Exit Stephano. How sweet the moon-light sleeps upon this bank 1 honourable virtues. limit . It is so indeed ; he is no onr ears ; soft stillness, and the night, Become the touches of sweet harmony. Sit, Jessica! Look,...
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The Works of Shakspeare: From the Text of Johnson, Steevens, and Reed

William Shakespeare - 1825 - 1010 pages
...your music forth into the air. — [Exil Stephano. Hew sweet the moon-light sleeps upon this bank ! can we call oar own, but death ; And that small model...earth, Which serves as paste and cover to our bones. Boor of heaven Is thick inlaid with patincs of bright gold ; There's not the smallest orb whieh thon...
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The Inheritance, Volume 2

Susan Ferrier, Author of Marriage - 1825 - 432 pages
...boldly presented his brush head to the evening air. " How sweet the moonlight sleeps upon this bank ! Here will we sit, and let the sounds of music Creep in our ears " spouted Mr Augustus, as he handed the ladies into the carriage. They bowed, and drove off. CHAPTER...
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Poetry and Poets: A Collection of the Choicest Anecdotes Relative ..., Volume 1

Richard Ryan - 1826 - 320 pages
...Venice" seat themselves on a bank by moonlight : — " How sweet the moonlight sleeps upon this bank ! Here will we sit, and let the sounds of music Creep...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...
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