 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 Plays of William Shakespeare - Page 88by William Shakespeare - 1803Full view - About this book
 | Joseph Hunter - 1845 - 456 pages
...Orders are given for preparations to receive them, and for the music. Then the dialogue proceeds. How sweet the moon-light sleeps upon this bank ! Here...harmony. Sit, Jessica : Look ! how the floor of heaven Is thick inlaid with patterns of bright gold ; There's not the smallest orb which thou behold'st, But... | |
 | Sarah Stickney Ellis - 1845 - 196 pages
...: . "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,...patines of bright gold ; There's not the smallest orb, which thou behold'st, But in his motion like an angel sings, Still quiiing to the young-ey'd cherubims.... | |
 | Leigh Hunt - 1845 - 292 pages
...sweet the moonlight sleeps upon the bank ! Here will we sit, and let the sounds of music Creep into our ears ; soft stillness and the night, Become the...patines* of bright gold ; There's not the smallest orb which thou behold'st,12 But in her motion like an angel sings, Still quiring to the young-eyed... | |
 | Leigh Hunt - 1845 - 372 pages
...sweet the moonlight sleeps upon the bank! Here will we sil, and let the sounds of musick Creep into our ears ; soft stillness and the night, .Become the...patines* of bright gold; There's not the smallest orb which thou behold'st, i2 * Patinea (Pdtine, Pat£ne, Itdl.') have been generally understood to... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1846 - 560 pages
...air.— 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,...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 Chambers, Robert Chambers - 1846 - 934 pages
...MUSIC. How sweet the moonlight sleeps upon this hank ! Here will we sit, and let the sounds of music Creep in our ears ; soft stillness and the night Become...patines of bright gold ; There's not the smallest orb which thou beholdest, But in his motion like an angel sings, Still quiring to the young-eyed cherubim.... | |
 | Eliphalet L. Rice - 1846 - 432 pages
...sweet the moonlight sleeps upon this bank ! Here will we sit and let the sounds of music Creep into our ears ; soft stillness and the night, Become the...patines of bright gold ; There's not the smallest orb which thou behold'st, But in her motion like an angel sings, Still quiring to the young-eyed cherubims:... | |
 | William Shakespeare, Alexander Chalmers - 1847 - 536 pages
...house, your mistress is at hand : And bring your musick forth into the air. — [Exit STEPHANO. How sweet the moon-light sleeps upon this bank ! Here...harmony. Sit, Jessica : Look how the floor of heaven Is thick inlaid with patines4 of bright gold ; There's not the smallest orb, which thou behold'st, But... | |
 | Robert Chambers - 1847 - 712 pages
...* • How sweet the moonlight sleeps upon this bank ! Here will we sit, and let the sounds of music ! — some other power As great might have upir'd, orb which thou behold'st, But in his motion like an angel sings, Still quiring to the young-eyed chérubins... | |
 | Robert Aspland - 1847 - 792 pages
...: " How sweet the moon-light sleeps upon this bank ! Here will we sit, and let the sounds of music Creep in our ears ; soft stillness, and the night,...patines of bright gold ; There's not the smallest orb, which thou behold'st, But in hie motion like an angel sings, Still quiring to the young-eyed chcrubims... | |
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