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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... "
The comedies of The Merchant of Venice, and As you like it, with the notes ... - Page 230
by William Shakespeare - 1805
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Black Face, Maligned Race: The Representation of Blacks in English Drama ...

Anthony Gerard Barthelemy - Drama - 1999 - 236 pages
...reflects the popular attitude toward music in Shakespeare's day and beyond: . . . soft stillness and the night Become the touches of sweet 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...
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A History of Western Musical Aesthetics

Edward A. Lippman - Music - 1994 - 564 pages
...part: Lor, 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...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...
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Myth, Emblem, and Music in Shakespeare's Cymbeline: An Iconographic ...

Peggy Muñoz Simonds - Art and literature - 1992 - 412 pages
...idea of Imogen's musical ceiling in the garden scene of The Merchant of Venice: Soft stillness and the night Become the touches of sweet 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...
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Shylock: A Legend and Its Legacy

John Gross - Literary Criticism - 1994 - 404 pages
...Jessica: 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...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...
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The Selected Writings of James Weldon Johnson: The New York Age editorials ...

James Weldon Johnson - African Americans - 1995 - 330 pages
...moonlight: How sweet the moonlight sleeps upon this bask! Here will we sit and let the sounds of music Creep in our ears; soft stillness and the night Become...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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Selected Poems

William Shakespeare - Poetry - 1995 - 136 pages
...her. 79 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...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...
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The Music of the Spheres: Music, Science, and the Natural Order of the Universe

Jamie James - Music - 1995 - 292 pages
...instances: How sweet the moonlight sleeps upon the bank! Here we will sit, and let the sounds of music Creep in our ears: soft stillness and the night Become...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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The Complete Works of William Shakespeare

William Shakespeare - Drama - 1996 - 1290 pages
...STEPHANO. How sweet the moonlight sleeps upon this bank! Here will we sit, and let the sounds of music thick inlaid with patines of bright gold: There's not the smallest orb which thou behold'st But in...
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The Complete Idiot's Guide to Shakespeare

Laurie Rozakis - Fiction - 1999 - 406 pages
...anti-Semitism How sweet the moonlight sleeps upon this bank! Here we will sit and let the sounds of music Creep in our ears: soft stillness and the night Become...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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The Renaissance in Europe: A Reader

Keith Whitlock - History - 2000 - 388 pages
...invoked: 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...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...
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