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 again ; and then,... The Works of Shakespeare - Page 462by William Shakespeare - 1899Full view - About this book
| William Shakespeare - 2000 - 410 pages
...thee! Mercy upon us! CALIBAN Art thou afeared? 120 STEPHANO No, monster, not I. CALIBAN Be not afeared, the isle is full of noises, Sounds, and sweet airs,...instruments Will hum about mine ears; and sometime voices, 125 That if I then had waked after long sleep, Will make me sleep again; and then in dreaming, The... | |
| Leo Marx - 2000 - 428 pages
...forces of disorder. Even Caliban, as readers often note, responds to the melodious atmosphere: . . . the isle is full of noises, Sounds and sweet airs,...twangling instruments Will hum about mine ears; and sometimes voices . . . Caliban's bestiality, the equivalent within human nature of the untamed elements... | |
| Michael H. Riley - 2000 - 286 pages
...play his music' . . . the music of the spheres . . . airwaves and the written word . . . Be not aferd; the isle is full of noises, Sounds and sweet airs...twangling instruments Will hum about mine ears; and sometimes voices That, if I then had waked after long sleep, Will make me sleep again; and then, in... | |
| John Xiros Cooper - 2000 - 378 pages
...Tempest island, so music transforms this garden into a place of enchantment. In Caliban's words, ... the isle is full of noises Sounds and sweet airs,...twangling instruments Will hum about mine ears; and sometimes voices (III, ii, 132-35) Shakespeare's sweet and delightful music is the avatar of Prospero's... | |
| Peter Hulme, William Howard Sherman - 2000 - 340 pages
...in the shape of the aperture made by his clenched hand. HOGARTH AND THE CANECUTTER Sounds, and sweet airs, that give delight and hurt not. Sometimes a...mine ears; and sometime voices, That if I then had wak'd after long sleep. Will make me sleep again . . . (III. ii. i33-8) It is Caliban who is open-eared... | |
| Bill Ashcroft - 2001 - 177 pages
...domination of Prospero's Art or language, is elaborated later when Trinculo and Stephano hear Ariel's music: Be not afeard; the isle is full of noises, Sounds...twangling instruments Will hum about mine ears; and sometimes voices, That, if I then had wak'd after long sleep, Will make me sleep again; and then, in... | |
| Maria Cristina Fumagalli - 2001 - 332 pages
..."the island is full," besides, contain a Shakespearean echo, recalling Caliban's words in The Tempest. Be not afeard; the isle is full of noises, Sounds,...twangling instruments Will hum about mine ears: and sometimes voices, That, if I then had wak'd after long sleep, Will make me sleep again: and then, in... | |
| William Shakespeare - 2001 - 164 pages
...has he taken? (iii) Who are the persons referred to as 'them', and what are th< planning to do? D2 Be not afeard, the isle is full of noises, Sounds,...thousand twangling instruments Will hum about mine ears. (i) Who is speaking and who is making the music? (ii) Who is afraid of the sound of music? Why? (iii)... | |
| Elise Kuhl Kirk - 2001 - 492 pages
...it in many of her concerts:"Be not afeared," it begins in both Shakespeare's and Hoiby 's versions: the isle is full of noises, Sounds and sweet airs,...twangling instruments Will hum about mine ears; and sometimes voices, That, if I then had wak'd after long sleep, Will make me sleep again.-8 The Tempest... | |
| Jennifer Mulherin, Abigail Frost - 2001 - 38 pages
...around it making courtly bows, and invite the lords to eat. Then they vanish. 22 - ; Isle of music Be not afeard: the isle is full of noises, Sounds...delight, and hurt not. Sometimes a thousand twangling instmments Will hum about mine ears; and sometimes voices, TJiat, if I then had wak'd after long sleep,... | |
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