Music: Quotations from Shakespearian Quotations
Come, ho, and wake Diana with a hymn; With sweetest touches pierce your mistress' ear,— M. V. v. 1.
And draw her home with music. Let music sound while he doth make his choice; Then, if he lose, he makes a swan-like end, Fading in music. That the comparison May stand more proper, my eye shall be the stream And wat'ry death-bed for him: He may win; And what is music then? Then music is Even as the flourish when true subjects bow To a new-crowned monarch; such it is, As are those dulcet sounds in break of day, That creep into the dreaming bridegroom's ear,— M. V. iii. 2.
And summon him to marriage. Come on; tune: If you can penetrate her with your fingering, so; we'll try with tongue too: if none will do, let her remain; but I'll never give o'er. First, a very excellent good-conceited thing, after a wonderful sweet air, with admirable rich words to it, and then let her consider.— CyT. ii. 3.
How sweet the moonlight sleeps upon this bank! Here will we sit, and let the sounds of music Creep in our ears; soft stillness, and the night,— M. V. v. 1.
Become the touches of sweet harmony. Sitting on a bank, Weeping against the king my father's wreck, This music crept by me upon the waters; Allaying both their fury and my passion,— T. i. 2.
With its sweet air. 'Tis good tho' music oft hath such a charm, To make bad good; and good provoke to harm. M. M. iv.— H. iii. 2.
And it will discourse most eloquent music. Preposterous ass! that never read so far, To know the cause why music was ordain'd ! Was it not to refresh the mind of man, After his studies, or his usual pain ? Then give me leave to read philosophy, And, while I pause, serve in your harmony.— T.S. iii. 1.
I'm never merry, when I hear sweet music.- The reason is, your spirits are attentive: For do but note a wild and wanton herd, Or race of youthful and unhandled colts, Fetching mad bounds, bellowing and neighing loud, Which is the hot condition of their blood: f they perchance but hear a trumpet sound, Shakespearian Dictionary. MUS Or any air of music touch their ears, You shall perceive them make a mutual stand, Their savage eyes turn'd to a modest gaze, By the sweet power of music: Therefore, the poet Did fein that Orpheus drew trees, stones, and floods; Since nought so stockish, hard, and full of rage, But music for the time doth change his nature. M. V. v. 1 The man that hath not music in himself, Nor is not moved with concord of sweet sounds, 7 Is fit for treasons, stratagems, and spoils; The motions of his spirit are dull as night, And his affections dark as Erebus:— M.V. V. 1
Let no such man be trusted. For Orpheus' lute was stung with poets' sinews, Whose golden touch could soften steel and stones; Make tigers tame, and huge leviathans Forsake unsounded deeps to dance on sands.— T. G. ii. 2
If music be the food of love, play on, Give me excess of it; that, surfeiting, The appetite may sicken, and so die.- That strain again; -it had a dying fall: O, it came o'er mine ear like the sweet south, That breathes upon a bank of violets, Stealing and giving odour.— T. N. i. 1
Once I sat upon a promontory, And heard a mermaid, on a dolphin's back, Uttering such 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.— M. N. ii. 2.
Let there be no noise made, my gentle friends; Unless some dull and favourable hand Will whisper music to my weary spirit. H. IV. PT. II. iv. 4. Then music, with her silver sound,— R. J. iv. 5.
With speedy help doth lend redress. Tax not so bad a voice To slander music any more than once.— M. A. ii. 3.
But, masters, here's money for you: and the general so likes your music, that he desires you, of all loves, to make— 0. iii. 1.
no more noise with it. Wilt thou have music? hark! Apollo plays, And twenty caged nightingales do sing.— T. S. IND. 2.
Give me some music; music, moody food— A C. ii. 5
Of us that trade in love. The music, ho! I am advised to give her music o'mornings: they say it will penetrate.— CyT. ii 3
The choir, With all the choicest music of the kingdom, Together sung Te Deum.— H. VIII. iv 1.
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He plays o' th' viol-de-gambo.— T. N. 3.