 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...  The Indicator - Page 3edited by - 1820Full view - About this book
 | Sir John Forbes, Alexander Tweedie, John Conolly - 1834 - 774 pages
...of evening is highly favourable to the employment of music as a soporific agent ; •* — let thp 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 likelthood of its being disturbed... | |
 | Leigh Hunt - 1835 - 350 pages
...bank by 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,...harmony. Now a foreign translator, of the ordinary kind, 1 would dilute and take all taste and freshness out of this draught of poetry, in a style somewhat... | |
 | Sarah Stickney Ellis - 1835 - 358 pages
...finding utterance : " 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 inlay'd with patines... | |
 | Mrs. Charles Meredith - 1836 - 400 pages
...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 • Creep in 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,... | |
 | Frances Maclellan - 1836 - 352 pages
...paint than colours. " How sweet the moonlight sleeps upon this wave. 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. Look how the floor of heaven Is thick inlaid with patines of bright gold."... | |
 | BIBLIOTHEQUE ANGLO-FRANCAISE - 1836 - 648 pages
...air. (Exit STEPHANO.) How sweet the moon-light 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... | |
 | Hermann Bokum - 1836 - 116 pages
...thought, when he says — 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. Without it — with all your astonishing and almost miraculous progress in... | |
 | Mrs. Charles Meredith - 1836 - 400 pages
...BEAUMONT AND FLKTCHI«. 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. And at the last, the bird began to sing So passing swetely, that, by many... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1836 - 554 pages
...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 ; soft stillness, and the night, Become the touches of sweet harmony. Sit, Jessica. Look, how the floor of heaven Is thick inlaid with patines... | |
 | Theocritus - 1836 - 450 pages
...apprehension : — " How sweet the 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. Sit, Jessica : look, how the floor of heaven Is thick inlaid with patines... | |
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