 | Susan Ferrier - 1841 - 480 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 i spouted Mr. Augustus, as he handed the ladies into the carriage. They bowed, and drove off. CHAPTER... | |
 | Edward Bulwer Lytton Lytton - 1842 - 414 pages
...shews himself — Who sees Him — he is great I" CHAPTER 1. " Here will we sit, and let the sounds or music Creep in our ears — soft stillness and the night Become the touches of sweet harmony." SHAKESPEARB. BOAT SONG ON THE LAKE OF COMO. 1. THE Beautiful Clime! —... | |
 | Nathan Drake - 1843 - 690 pages
...that the mind seems dissolving in tranquil luxury: " How sweet the moon-light sleeps upon this hank ! Here will we sit, and let the sounds of music Creep in our ears; sofl stillness, and the night, Become the touches of sweet harmony." Act v. sc. 1. Shakspeare was an... | |
 | George Pope Morris, Nathaniel Parker Willis - 1844 - 530 pages
...Venice seat themselves on a bank by moonlight : — How sweet the moonlight slaps 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... | |
 | John Goldsbury, William Russell - 1844 - 444 pages
...quality ' of tone ; and moderate inflections. Example. " 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. 5 Look how the floor of heaven Is thick inlaid with patines of bright gdld... | |
 | John Goldsbury, William Russell - 1844 - 444 pages
...quality ' of tone ; and moderate inflections. Example. " 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, Bec&me the touches of sweet harmony. : 5 Look how the floor of heaven But | in his motion | like an... | |
 | Edward Bulwer Lytton Baron Lytton - 1844 - 468 pages
...men Apollo shews himself — Who sees Him — he is great !" BOOK III. CHAPTER I. " Here will wo sit, and let the sounds of music Creep in our ears — soft stillness and the night Become the touches of sweet harmony." — SHAKESPEAI BOAT SONG ON THE LAKE OF COMO. 1. THE Beautiful Clime! —... | |
 | Samuel Maunder - 1844 - 544 pages
...garden, accosts her after the following manner: —- " 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. — Sit, Jessica; look how... | |
 | Sir John Forbes, Alexander Tweedie, John Conolly - 1845 - 788 pages
...placed. The stillness of evening a highly favourable to the employment of music as a soporific agent ; " let the sounds of music Creep in our ears ; soft stillness, and the night Become the touches of sweet harmony." And when sleep is induced, there is much less •The best work to be consulted... | |
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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... 
