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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 sometime voices, That, if I then had wak'd after long sleep, Will make me sleep... "
Sketch of the life of Shakespeare. Tempest. Two Gentlemen of Verona. Merry ... - Page 19
by William Shakespeare - 1848
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Mental Health: Philosophical Perspectives

Hugo Tristram Engelhardt (Jr.), S.F. Spicker - Medical - 1978 - 334 pages
...consciousness. But too, Caliban declares, Be not afeaid. The isle is full of noises, Sounds, and sweet airs, that give delight and hurt not. Sometimes a...riches Ready to drop upon me, that, when I wak'd, I cried to dream again. Shakespeare, The Tempest, Act III. Scene 2, 144-152 So the most marvellous rhythms...
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Hamlet and Other Shakespearean Essays

L. C. Knights - Literary Criticism - 1979 - 326 pages
...the most beautiful poetry in the play: Be not afeard; the isle is full of noises, Sounds and sweet airs, that give delight, and hurt not. Sometimes a...riches Ready to drop upon me ; that, when I wak'd, I cried to dream again. But he is also a brute 'on whose nature nurture can never stick' ; and the play...
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Beyond Tragedy: Structure & Experience in Shakespeare's Romances, Volume 10

Robert W. Uphaus - Literary Criticism - 1981 - 172 pages
...Caliban tells an insensitive Stephano: Be not afeard, the isle is full of noises, Sounds, and sweet airs, that give delight and hurt not. Sometimes a...riches Ready to drop upon me, that when I wak'd I cried to dream again. (IIl.ii. 135-43) Where the heavens do "rain grace" on Ferdinand and Miranda,...
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New World Metaphysics: Readings on the Religious Meaning of the American ...

Giles Gunn - Religion - 1981 - 489 pages
...gone. No, it begins again. Ill.ii Caliban: Be not afeard; the isle is full of noises, Sounds and sweet airs, that give delight and hurt not. Sometimes a...riches Ready to drop upon me, that, when I wak'd, I cried to dream again. Vi Miranda: O, wonder! How many goodly creatures are there here! How beauteous...
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The Pleasures of Exile

George Lamming - Fiction - 1992 - 260 pages
...one man's way of seeing. IN THE BEGINNING Be not afcard; the isle is full of noises, Sounds and sweet airs, that give delight, and hurt not Sometimes a...riches Ready to drop upon me; that, when I wak'd I cried to dream again. Tempest, Act III, Scene II IT 1s a tribal habit in certain reserves of the BBC...
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Things Supernatural and Causeless: Shakespearean Romance

Marco Mincoff - Drama - 1992 - 148 pages
...delight and hurt not. Sometimes a thousand twangling instruments Will hum about mine ears; and sometime voices, That if I then had wak'd after long sleep,...riches Ready to drop upon me, that when I wak'd I cried to dream again. (3.2.135^3) This passage—perhaps even more than Gonzalo's speech because of...
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Early American Writing

Various - History - 1994 - 676 pages
...'tis gone. No, it begins again. Caliban: Be not afeard; the isle is full of noises, Sounds and sweet airs, that give delight and hurt not. Sometimes a...riches Ready to drop upon me, that, when I wak'd, I cried to dream again. Miranda: O, wonder! How many goodly creatures are there here! How beauteous mankind...
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Political Shakespeare: Essays in Cultural Materialism

Jonathan Dollimore, Alan Sinfield - Drama - 1994 - 308 pages
...business, Caliban describes the effects of the island music: the isle is full of noises, Sounds and sweet airs, that give delight, and hurt not. Sometimes a...riches Ready to drop upon me: that, when I wak'd, I cried to dream again (III. ii. 13 3-41) Here the island is seen to operate not for the coloniser but...
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Shakespeare as Prompter: The Amending Imagination and the Therapeutic Process

Murray Cox, Alice Theilgaard - Literary Criticism - 1994 - 482 pages
...delight, and hurt not. Sometimes a thousand twangling instruments Will hum about mine ears; and sometime voices, That, if I then had wak'd after long sleep,...riches Ready to drop upon me; that, when I wak'd, I cried to dream again.' (The Tempest III.2.133) 'To think our former state a happy dream', when we are...
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The Post-colonial Question: Common Skies, Divided Horizons

Iain Chambers, Lidia Curti - Cultural pluralism) - 1996 - 296 pages
...essay 'Of Cannibals' - says to Stephano: Be not afeard; the isle is full of noises, Sounds and sweet airs, that give delight, and hurt not. Sometimes a...riches Ready to drop upon me; that, when I wak'd, I cried to dream again. (111,2, 132-141; my italics) In its inter-textual echoes, Coetzee' s short work...
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