| John Gross - Literary Criticism - 1994 - 404 pages
...must yield), and, higher still, the idea of universal harmony which Lorenzo expounds to Jessica: How sweet the moonlight sleeps upon this bank! Here will...harmony. Sit, Jessica. Look how the floor of heaven Is thick inlaid with patens of bright gold. There's not the smallest orb which thou behold'st But in his... | |
| David G. Allen, Robert A. White - History - 1995 - 332 pages
...explicit expression, for instance, in Lorenzo's famous speech in act 5 of The Merchant of Venice: How sweet the moonlight sleeps upon this bank! Here will...harmony: Sit Jessica, — look how the floor of heaven Is thick inlaid with patens of bright gold, There's not the smallest orb which thou behold'st But in his... | |
| William Shakespeare - Poetry - 1995 - 136 pages
...of faith, Did pretty Jessica, like a little shrow, Slander her love, and he forgave it her. 79 How sweet the moonlight sleeps upon this bank! Here will...harmony Sit, Jessica. Look how the floor of heaven Is thick inlaid with patens of bright gold. There's not the smallest orb which thou behold'st But in his... | |
| James Weldon Johnson - African Americans - 1995 - 330 pages
...tenderest to the fiercest. Take this picture of moonlight: How sweet the moonlight sleeps upon this bask! Here will we sit and let the sounds of music Creep...harmony. Sit, Jessica. Look how the floor of heaven Is thick inlaid with patines of bright gold; There's not the smallest orb which thou behold'st But in... | |
| Jamie James - Music - 1995 - 292 pages
...for a multitude of such instances: How sweet the moonlight sleeps upon the bank! Here we will sit, and let the sounds of music Creep in our ears: soft...harmony. Sit, Jessica: look, how the floor of heaven Is thick inlaid with patines of bright gold: There's not the smallest orb which thou behold'st But in... | |
| William Shakespeare - Drama - 1996 - 1290 pages
...pray you, Within the house, your mistress is at hand; And bring your music forth into the air. [Exit STEPHANO. How sweet the moonlight sleeps upon this...harmony. Sit, Jessica. Look, how the floor of heaven Is thick inlaid with patines of bright gold: There's not the smallest orb which thou behold'st But in... | |
| Richard Halpern - Drama - 1997 - 308 pages
...economic obscure the poetic beauty of speeches such as the one by Lorenzo at the opening of act 5? How sweet the moonlight sleeps upon this bank! Here will...our ears. Soft stillness and the night Become the touches of sweet harmony. 92. Horkheimer and Adorno, Dialectic of Enlightenment, p. 174. 93. See also... | |
| Arthur Graham - Literary Criticism - 1997 - 244 pages
...as an occasional piece, the quality is sufficiently high to be worthy of our attention today. "How sweet the moonlight sleeps upon this bank! Here will...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:... | |
| Keith Whitlock - History - 2000 - 388 pages
...our ears,' go with the perception of a gracious universe such as Portia's mercy speech invoked: How sweet the moonlight sleeps upon this bank! Here will...harmony. Sit, Jessica. Look how the floor of heaven Is thick inlaid with patens of bright gold. There's not the smallest orb which thou behold'st But in his... | |
| Hans-Dieter Gelfert - Dramatists, English - 2000 - 132 pages
...Tritt, zB in den folgenden Versen aus dem Kaufmann von Venedig, die Lorenzo zu Jessica spricht: How sweet the moonlight sleeps upon this bank! Here will...harmony. Sit, Jessica: look how the floor of heaven Is thick inlaid with patines of bright gold: There's not the smallest orb which thou behold'st But in... | |
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