 | Increase Cooke - American literature - 1819 - 426 pages
...journey. Low and Soft. 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. O my dread lord I should be guiltier than my guiltiness, To think I can be... | |
 | Leigh Hunt - 1820 - 432 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 tlie sounds of music Creep in our ears ; soft stillness, and the night, Become the touches of sweet... | |
 | English literature - 1834 - 580 pages
...Venice' seat themselves on a bank by moonlight : — " How sweet the moonlight sleeps upon this hank ! 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... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1821 - 550 pages
...large portion of the corruptions, which for a long time disfigured the modern editions. MALONE. How sweet the moon-light sleeps upon this bank ! Here will we sit, and let the sounds of musick Creep in our ears u ; soft stillness, and the night, Become the touches of sweet harmony. Sit,... | |
 | 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... | |
 | 1822 - 382 pages
...Jessica 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...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... | |
 | Charles Bucke - Nature - 1823 - 408 pages
...the 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... | |
 | British poets - 1824 - 676 pages
...the day-light sick, It looks a little paler ; 'tis a day, Such as the day is when the sua is hid. How sweet the moon-light sleeps upon this bank ! Here...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... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1824 - 372 pages
...My friend Stephsino, signify, I pray you, Within the house, your mistress is at hand ; VOL. III. H And bring your music forth into the air. — {Exit...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,... | |
 | Susan Ferrier - English fiction - 1824 - 396 pages
...!" sighed Miss Lilly, in imitation, as he boldly presented his brush head to the evening air. " How sweet the moonlight! sleeps upon this bank ! Here...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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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 swedt harmony. 
