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" Be not afeard ; the isle is full of noises, Sounds and sweet airs, that give delight and hurt not. Sometimes a thousand twangling instruments Will hum about mine ears, and sometimes voices That, if I then had waked after long sleep, Will make me sleep... "
The family Shakespeare [expurgated by T. Bowdler]. in which those words are ... - Page 44
by William Shakespeare - 1853
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The Tempest

William Shakespeare - Drama - 1998 - 260 pages
...TRINCULO O, forgive me my sins ! STEPHANO He that dies pays all debts. I defy thee ! Mercy upon us! 130 CALIBAN Art thou afeard ? STEPHANO No, monster, not...twangling instruments Will hum about mine ears ; and sometime voices, That if I then had waked after long sleep, Will make me sleep again, and then in dreaming...
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Shakespeare and the Literary Tradition

Stephen Orgel, Sean Keilen - Literary Criticism - 1999 - 356 pages
...behind Caliban's famous speech to his companions upon hearing Ariel's tabor and pipe. Caliban says: Be not afeard; the isle is full of noises, Sounds...twangling instruments Will hum about mine ears: and sometime voices. That, if I then had wak'd after long sleep, Will make me sleep again: and then, in...
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World Spectators

Kaja Silverman - Philosophy - 2000 - 196 pages
...future. He sees the future tense out of the perfect. — Martin Heidegger, "The Anaximander Fragment" Be not afeard; the isle is full of noises, Sounds,...mine ears, and sometimes voices That, if I then had waked after long sleep, Will make me sleep again; and then in dreaming, The clouds methought would...
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Novel Talking: The Autotelic Otiose

Michael H. Riley - Literature - 2000 - 286 pages
...play his music' . . . the music of the spheres . . . airwaves and the written word . . . Be not aferd; the isle is full of noises, Sounds and sweet airs...mine ears; and sometimes voices That, if I then had waked after long sleep, Will make me sleep again; and then, in dreaming, The clouds methought would...
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The Tempest and Its Travels

Peter Hulme - Colonies in literature - 2000 - 344 pages
...echoed in the shape of his exposed navel and in the shape of the aperture made by his clenched hand. Be not afeard, the isle is full of noises, Sounds,...twangling instruments Will hum about mine ears; and sometime voices, That if I then had wak'd after long sleep, Will make me sleep again . . . (Ill.ii....
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The Vanishing: Shakespeare, the Subject, and Early Modern Culture

Christopher Pye - Drama - 2000 - 220 pages
...touchstone for critics who have understood subjectivity as an effect of cultural and material inscription: Be not afeard, the isle is full of noises, Sounds,...twangling instruments Will hum about mine ears; and sometime voices, That if I then had wak'd after long sleep, Will make me sleep again, and then in dreaming,...
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Shakespeare's Reading

Robert S. Miola - Literary Criticism - 2000 - 206 pages
...however, lies in his poetry, particularly in the lyrical evocations of the island's sights and sounds: Be not afeard. The isle is full of noises, Sounds,...twangling instruments Will hum about mine ears, and sometime voices That if I then had waked after long sleep Will make me sleep again; and then in dreaming...
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The Machine in the Garden: Technology and the Pastoral Ideal in America

Leo Marx - History - 2000 - 428 pages
...forces of disorder. Even Caliban, as readers often note, responds to the melodious atmosphere: . . . the isle is full of noises, Sounds and sweet airs,...instruments Will hum about mine ears; and sometimes voices . . . Caliban's bestiality, the equivalent within human nature of the untamed elements without, is...
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T.S. Eliot's Orchestra: Critical Essays on Poetry and Music

John Xiros Cooper - Art - 2000 - 378 pages
...Tempest island, so music transforms this garden into a place of enchantment. In Caliban's words, ... the isle is full of noises Sounds and sweet airs,...instruments Will hum about mine ears; and sometimes voices (III, ii, 132-35) Shakespeare's sweet and delightful music is the avatar of Prospero's "charms." In...
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American Opera

Elise Kuhl Kirk - Music - 2001 - 492 pages
...it in many of her concerts:"Be not afeared," it begins in both Shakespeare's and Hoiby 's versions: the isle is full of noises, Sounds and sweet airs,...then had wak'd after long sleep, Will make me sleep again.-8 The Tempest has piqued the imagination of poets from Milton toT. S. Eliot and WH Auden as...
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