...house, your mistress is at hand ; And bring your music forth into the air. — [Exit Stephano. How sweet the moonlight sleeps upon this bank ! Here will...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'...

...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...of sweet harmony. Look, how the floor of heaven Is thick inlaid with patines of bright gold: patines—thin metal plates There's not the smallest orb...

...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...

...numberharmony, was evident in such passages as this one from Shakespeare's Merchant of Venice (V, i): "How sweet the moonlight sleeps upon this bank! / Here...music / Creep in our ears: soft stillness and the night/Become the touches of sweet harmony." According to Wellek, the Renaissance poets and dramatists...

...stillness and the night Become the touches of sweet harmony. Sit, Jessica. Look how the floor of heaven Is thick inlaid with patines of bright gold: There's...young-eyed cherubins. Such harmony is in immortal souls; But whilst this muddy vesture of decay Doth grossly close it in, we cannot hear it. — A Midsummer...

...Lorenzo, in The Merchant of Venice, puts it even better: Sit, Jessica. Look how the floor of heaven Is thick inlaid with patines of bright gold; There's...young-eyed cherubins: Such harmony is in immortal souls; But, whilst this muddy vesture of decay Doth grossly close it in, we cannot hear it. In fact, Lorenzo...

...idea of a spirit world, so uncanny in itself. So Shakespeare has a character in the South say: "How sweet the moonlight sleeps upon this bank! / Here...our ears: soft stillness and the night / Become the touches of sweet harmony."34 Yet it remains black magic, music does, and still profoundly near to the...

...that to dislike music is to be untrustworthy, and, indeed, to be out of touch with the divine: How sweet the moonlight sleeps upon this bank! Here will...our ears. Soft stillness and the night Become the touches of sweet harmony. . . . There's not the smallest orb which thou behold'st But in his motion...

...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...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 patens of...

...heralded the coming of Bassanio. There is a brief interlude of anticipation, filled by Lorenzo: How sweet the moonlight sleeps upon this bank! Here will...our ears. Soft stillness and the night Become the touches of sweet harmony. (54-57) What stays visible, upward not earthward, is seen in configurations...