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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 Works of William Shakespeare - Page 70
by William Shakespeare - 1810
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El mundo trágico de los griegos y de Shakespeare: consideraciones sobre lo ...

Ludwig Schajowicz - Drama - 1990 - 400 pages
...estado de despreocupado ocio? Lorenzo expresa esta bienaventuranza, que comparte con su amada: How sweet the moonlight sleeps upon this bank! Here will...our ears; soft stillness and the night Become the touches of sweet harmony.30 De los "esclavos" no se habla en Bellmont. Lo que en el cuarto acto pareció...
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A History of Western Musical Aesthetics

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...
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Shylock: A Legend and Its Legacy

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...
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Selected Poems

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...
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Subjects on the World's Stage: Essays on British Literature of the Middle ...

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...
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The Selected Writings of James Weldon Johnson: The New York Age editorials ...

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...
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The Music of the Spheres: Music, Science, and the Natural Order of the Universe

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...
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The Complete Works of William Shakespeare

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 thick inlaid with patines of bright gold: There's not the smallest orb which thou behold'st But in...
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Shakespeare in Opera, Ballet, Orchestral Music, and Song: An Introduction to ...

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:...
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Shakespeare Among the Moderns

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...
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