| Richard Ryan - 1826 - 328 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... | |
| 1826 - 500 pages
...scenes might inspire that exquisite description — 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. Merchant of Venice. The far-famed cathedral remains to be spoken of ; an... | |
| 1826 - 360 pages
...? And from Shakespeare's Merchant of Venice : — How sweet the moon-light sleeps upon this bank ! Here will we sit, and let the sounds of music Creep in our ears ; soft stilness and the night Become the touches of sweet harmony. Sit, Jessica: Look how the floor of heaven... | |
| 1827 - 476 pages
...such scenes might inspire that exquisite description— 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. Merchant of Venice. The far-famed cathedral remains to be spoken of ; an... | |
| William Shakespeare - 1827 - 658 pages
...wrinkled brow, An age of poverty. ACT V. MOONLIGHT. 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 Jthe touches of sweet harmony. Sit, Jessica: Look, how the floor of'heaven Is thick inlaid with patines*... | |
| William Shakespeare, George Steevens - 1829 - 506 pages
...your music forth into the air. — [Exit Stephane. How sweet the moonlight sleeps upon this bank ! Here will we sit, and let the sounds of music Creep in our ears ; sou stillness, and the night, Become the touches of sweet harmony. Sit, Jessica : Look, how the floor... | |
| William Shakespeare - 1831 - 554 pages
...your music forth into the air. — [Exit Stephane. 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. Si', Jessica: Look, how the floor of heaven I» thick inlaid with patines'... | |
| William Shakespeare - 1831 - 500 pages
...brine 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 Creep in our ears ; soil stillness, and the night, Become the touches of sweet harmonv. Sit, Jessica : Look, how the... | |
| 1847 - 558 pages
...saws ") play the chief parts, wo would rather object to follow too literally the bard when he says " Here will we sit, and let the sounds of music Creep in our ears." At DRURY LANE Alfred the Great — in his own conceit — has been actually floundering about, assisting... | |
| Leigh Hunt - 1834 - 342 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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