| William Shakespeare - 1859 - 662 pages
...the 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 we will sit, and let the sounds of music Creep in our ears : soft stillness, and the night, Become the touches of sweet harmony. (Sit,... | |
| Florence De Courcy - 1860 - 168 pages
...certainty, although Shakespeare, in Richard II, act 5th, and scene 5th,. says — "Music do I hear! Ha, ha ! keep time, how sour sweet music is When time is broke, and no proportion kept." The cantus mensurabilis, or division by bars, the substitute for the ancient rhythmus, is by many condemned,... | |
| George Stillman Hillard - 1861 - 562 pages
...unveiled her peerless light, And o'er the dark- her silver mantle threw. MOONL1GHT. — Shakspeare. How sweet the moonlight sleeps upon this bank! Here we will sit, and let the sounds of music Creep in our ears ; soft stillness, and the night, Become the touches of sweet harmony. Sit,... | |
| 1861 - 356 pages
...like the sweet south, That breathes upon a bank of violets, Stealing, and giving odor. SHAKSPEARE. How sour sweet music is When time is broke, and no proportion kept! So is it in the music of men's lives. SHAKSPEARE. There's sure no passion in the human soul But finds... | |
| William Shakespeare - 1862 - 434 pages
...man is, With nothing shall be pleas'd till he be eas'd With being nothing. Music do I hear ? [Music. Ha, ha ! keep time : — how sour sweet music is, When time is broke and no proportion kept ' So is it in the music of men's lives. And here have I the daintiness of ear, To check tune broke... | |
| William Shakespeare - 1862 - 964 pages
...nothing shall be pleas'd, till he be eas'd With being nothing. Music do I hear ? Ha, ha ! keep tune : — @ Ƚ 1P 1 1 ! So is it in the music of men's lives. And here have I the daintiness of ear, To check § time, broke... | |
| Henry Southgate - 1862 - 774 pages
...out with martial din. Had clubb'd their yellow heads to form her skin. Dr. DISCOBD— Sournesa of. How sour sweet music is, When time is broke, and no proportion kept. DISCOVEBY-Historieal Notices of. | At tha head of the list stands that of Sir Isaac Newton, one of... | |
| William Shakespeare - 1863 - 166 pages
...is, With nothing shall be plea»' d till he be eas'd With bi'ing nothing. Music do I hear? [Jfusic. Ha, ha ! keep time : — How sour sweet music is, When time is broke, and no proportion kept! So is it in the music of men's lives. And here have I the daintiness of ear, To check time broke in... | |
| William Shakespeare - 1863 - 512 pages
...by, Think that I am unking'd by Bolingbroke, And straight am nothing. — [Music.] Music do I hear? Ha, ha ! keep time : — how sour sweet music is, When time is broke, and no proportion kept ! So is it in the music of men's lives. And here have I the daintiness of ear To check time broke in... | |
| 1864 - 390 pages
...opposed to anything like correctness that I was compelled, in spite of myself, to cease playing. " Ha, ha ! keep time : — How sour sweet music is When time is broke, and no proportion kept. This music mads me, let it sound no more." As a remarkable instance of uncertainty in the time, at... | |
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