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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 dramatic works of William Shakspeare, from the text of Johnson, Stevens ... - Page 463
by William Shakespeare - 1851
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Collected Essays, Papers, Etc, Volume 10

Robert Bridges - 870 pages
...first Shakespeare; this is how the somewhat footy little artist in the Merchant of Venice can talk: How sweet the moonlight sleeps upon this bank! Here will...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 beholdest But in...
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A History of Western Musical Aesthetics

Edward A. Lippman - 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 - 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 - 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 - 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 - 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 Complete Works of William Shakespeare

William Shakespeare - 1996 - 1290 pages
...expect their coming. And yet no matter: — why should we go in ? — My friend Stephano, signify, h 3 3 3 thick inlaid with patines of bright gold: There's not the smallest orb which thou behold'st But in...
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The Merchant of Venice

William Shakespeare - 2000 - 164 pages
...their coming. And yet no matter: why should we go in? so My friend Stephano, signify, I pray you, 51 Within the house, your mistress is at hand, And bring...our ears; soft stillness and the night Become the touches of sweet harmony. 57 Sit, Jessica. Look how the floor of heaven Is thick inlaid with patens...
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Shakespeare: Hans-Dieter Gelfert

Hans-Dieter Gelfert - 2000 - 132 pages
...Tritt, zB in den folgenden Versen aus dem Kaufmann von Venedig, die Lorenzo zu Jessica spricht: How sweet the moonlight sleeps upon this bank! Here will...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 - 2000 - 388 pages
...our ears,' go with the perception of a gracious universe such as Portia's mercy speech invoked: 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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