This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1900 Excerpt: ...wren. How many things by season season'd are To their right praise, and true perfection!--'Peace, hoa! the moon sleeps with Endymion, And would not be awak'd! Music ceases" And in "Much Ado About Nothing" (Act ii. Sc. 3), Claudio voices very nearly the same sentiment. " Don Pedro, Come, shall we hear this music? ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1900 Excerpt: ...wren. How many things by season season'd are To their right praise, and true perfection!--'Peace, hoa! the moon sleeps with Endymion, And would not be awak'd! Music ceases" And in "Much Ado About Nothing" (Act ii. Sc. 3), Claudio voices very nearly the same sentiment. " Don Pedro, Come, shall we hear this music? Claudio. Yea, my good lord: --How still the evening is, As hush'd on purpose to grace harmony! " The music of the sea does not escape the genius of our great poet. He does not, to be sure, go as far as Walt Whitman, with his stirring lines: " To-day a rude and brief recitative Of ships sailing the seas, Each with its special flag or ship signal, Of unnamed heroes in the ships, Of waves spreading and spreading, far as the eye can reach, Of dashing spray, and the winds piping and blowing; And out of these a song for the sailors of all nations; Fitful, like a surge." Nevertheless, " The Tempest " has many allusions to marine music, of better character and more refined style than the broad bacchanalian touches which are found in that great work; Oberon, too, in " Midsummer Night's Dream " (Act ii. Sc. 1), speaks of the music of the sea: " My gentle Puck, come hither: Thou remember'st Since once I sat upon a promontory, And heard a mermaid, on a dolphin's back, Uttering such a dulcet and harmonious breath, That the rude sea grew civil at her song; And certain stars shot madly from their spheres, To hear the sea-maid's music." And in the " Comedy of Errors " (Act iii. Sc. 2), we find the lines: " O, train me not, sweet mermaid, with thy note, To drown me in thy sister's flood of tears; Sing, syren, for thyself, and I will dote: Spread o'er the silver waves thy golden hairs.&quo...
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