 | 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... | |
 | Leigh Hunt - English essays - 1835 - 350 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, 1 would dilute and take all... | |
 | Frances Maclellan - 1836 - 352 pages
...Words are surely more powerful to paint than colours. " How sweet the moonlight sleeps upon this wave. Here will we sit, and let the sounds of music Creep...of sweet harmony. Look how the floor of heaven Is thick inlaid with patines of bright gold." These words realized a description of the view before us,... | |
 | BIBLIOTHEQUE ANGLO-FRANCAISE - 1836 - 648 pages
...bring your music forth into the air. (Exit STEPHANO.) 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. Sit, Jessica : Look, how the floor of heaven Is thick inlaid with patines... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1836 - 554 pages
...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...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... | |
 | Mrs. Charles Meredith - Botanical illustration - 1836 - 400 pages
...least, Give us her airy welcome. BEAUMONT AND FLKTCHI«. 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. And at the last, the bird began to sing So passing swetely, that, by many... | |
 | Hermann Bokum - Children - 1836 - 116 pages
...Shakspeare perhaps has only thought, when he says — 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. Without it — with all your astonishing and almost miraculous progress in... | |
 | Mrs. Charles Meredith - Botanical illustration - 1836 - 400 pages
...Give us her airy welcome. BlAUMOKT AND l-'il r'r nnr How sweet the moonlight sleeps upon thia bank ' Here will we sit, and let the sounds of music •...our ears : soft stillness and the night Become the touches of sweet harmony. SlIAISFKARK. And at the last, the bird began to sing So passing swetely,... | |
 | Thomas Miller - Country life - 1837 - 466 pages
...in such a night Medea gather'd the enchanted herb. How sweet the moonlight sleeps upon this bank ! Here will we sit, and let the sounds of music Creep...bright gold ! There 's not the smallest orb which thou beholdest, But in its motion like an angel sings, Still quiring to the young-eyed cherubim." Spenser... | |
 | Lord Edward Lytton Bulwer - 1837 - 376 pages
...hymno in Apollinem. ' Not to all men Apollo shews himself— Who sees Him— he is great ! " CHAPTER I. " Here will we sit, and let the sounds of music...ears — soft stillness and the night ., Become the touches of sweet harmony." SlIAR8PEARE. BOAT SONG ON THE LAKE OF COMO. 1. THE Beautiful Clime !—... | |
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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. Sit, Jessica. Look how the floor of heaven Is thick inlaid with patines of... 
