 | Aubrey Thomas De Vere - 1858 - 298 pages
...all to render The deeds of mercy. i LORENZO AND JESSICA. Merchant of Venice, act v. scene 1. Lor. 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... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1858 - 830 pages
...the house, your mistress is at hand : And bring your music forth into the air. [Exit STEPHANO. How 858 thick inlaid with patinesf of bright gold. There's not the smallest orb which thou behold 'st, But... | |
 | Robert Bridges - Church music - 870 pages
...first Shakespeare; this is how the somewhat footy little artist in the Merchant of Venice can talk: 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 beholdest But in... | |
 | Edward A. Lippman - Music - 1994 - 564 pages
...scene i, of The Merchant of Venice (ca. i596), in which cosmic harmony also plays a part: Lor, 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... | |
 | 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... | |
 | 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...with patines of bright gold; There's not the smallest orb which thou behold'st But in his motion like an angel sings, Still quiring to the young-eyed cherubims;... | |
 | David G. Allen, Robert A. White - Literary Criticism - 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... | |
 | 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...with patines of bright gold: There's not the smallest orb which thou behold'st But in his motion like an angel sings, Still quiring to the young-eyed cherubins.... | |
 | William Shakespeare - Drama - 1996 - 1290 pages
...Within the house, your mistress is at hand; And bring your music forth into the air. [Exit STEPHANO. How orb which thou behold'st But in his motion like an angel sings, Still quiring to the young-eyed chérubins,... | |
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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... 
