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" Be not afeard ; 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 sometimes voices That, if I then had waked after long sleep, Will make me sleep... "
The dramatic works of William Shakspeare, from the text of Johnson, Stevens ... - Page 138
by William Shakespeare - 1851
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Outlines of English Literature: With Readings

William Joseph Long - English literature - 1925 - 844 pages
...echoes, to which Caliban gives expression : The isle is full of noises, Sounds and sweet airs, that give delight and hurt not. Sometimes a thousand twangling...upon me, that when I waked I cried to dream again. The bewildered girl in Comus also hears mysterious voices, and has glimpses of a world not her own...
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Poetic Unreason and Other Studies

Robert Graves - English poetry - 1925 - 298 pages
...him of his own dreams : " Be not afeard ; the isle is full of noises Sounds and sweet airs that give delight and hurt not. Sometimes a thousand twangling...methought would open and show riches Ready to drop on me, that when I waked I cried to dream again." The same verse colours the idea of the banquet removed...
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Tragedy and After: Euripides, Shakespeare, Goethe

Ekbert Faas - Art - 1986 - 244 pages
...Caliban's beautiful speech about the sounds of the island, dream melts into reality and reality into dream: Sometimes a thousand twangling instruments Will hum...upon me, that, when I waked, I cried to dream again. ui.iii Just as dream and waking here have become interchangeable realms of experience, so everything...
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Players of Shakespeare 1: Essays in Shakespearean Performance by Twelve ...

Philip Brockbank - Biography & Autobiography - 1988 - 198 pages
...Caliban tells Stephano Be not afeared, the isle is full of noises, Sounds, and sweet airs, that give delight and hurt not. Sometimes a thousand twangling...upon me, that when I waked I cried to dream again. (3.2.135-43) And then only two lines later when he perceives that Stephano is coming round with 'This...
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The Seven Deadly Sins: Society and Evil

Stanford M. Lyman - Philosophy - 1989 - 372 pages
...and breaks his very existence. FIVE Envy The isle is full of noises, Sounds and sweet airs, that give delight, and hurt not. Sometimes a thousand twangling...me sleep again: and then, in dreaming, The clouds methougln would open, and show riches Ready to drop upon me; that, when I waked, I cried to dream again....
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Shakespeare Survey, Volume 43

Stanley Wells - Drama - 2002 - 296 pages
...give delight and hurt not. Sometimes a thousand twangling instruments Will hum about mine ears, arid sometimes voices That if I then had waked after long...upon me, that when I waked I cried to dream again. (3.2.138-46) Often cited as evidence of natural sensitivity or of the magical atmosphere of the setting,...
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The Absent Shakespeare

Mark Jay Mirsky - Drama - 1994 - 182 pages
...close to Caliban's Sometimes a thousand twangling instruments Will hum about mine ears; and sometime voices That, if I then had waked after long sleep,...upon me, that when I waked I cried to dream again. This wish to abandon reality for the richness of dream makes the bestial servant one with his master....
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Coast of Summer

Anthony Bailey - Biography & Autobiography - 1995 - 384 pages
...delight, and hurt not. Sometimes a thousand twangling instruments Will hum about mine ears; and sometime voices, That, if I then had waked after long sleep,...upon me; that, when I waked, I cried to dream again. 14 I'M NOT SURE what wakes me — thunder, rain, or the tiller, which had been propped upright and...
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Selected Poems

William Shakespeare - Poetry - 1995 - 136 pages
...delight and hurt not. Sometimes a thousand twangling instruments Will hum about mine ears; and sometime voices That, if I then had waked after long sleep....upon me, that, when I waked, I cried to dream again. Our revels now are ended. These our actors, As I foretold you, were all spirits and Are melted into...
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Demons of the Night: Tales of the Fantastic, Madness, and the Supernatural ...

Joan C. Kessler - Fiction - 1995 - 399 pages
...delight and hurt not: Sometimes a thousand twangling instruments Will hum about mine ears,- and sometime voices, That, if I then had waked after long sleep,...upon me, that when I waked I cried to dream again. Shakespeare2 Ah, how sweet, my Lisidis, when the last chimes of the midnight bells are fading among...
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