No man like that should be trusted.’ He signaled to the musicians to begin.Listen to the music. His spiritual life is as dull as night and his character as dark as Erebus. The man who has no music in his soul, who isn’t moved by the harmony of sweet sounds, is fit only for treasons plots and trouble-making. There’s nothing so brutish or stubborn or angry that music won’t soften it for a while. That’s why the poet, Ovid, maintained that Orpheus’ music affected trees and stones and tides. Just look at stampeding cattle or frisking young untamed colts, bellowing and neighing loudly, which is their natural behaviour – if they happen to hear the sound of a trumpet, or if any tune reaches their ears, you’ll see them all stop and stand still, the savagery in their eyes changed to a docile gaze by the sweet power of music. Wake Diana with a hymn! Reach your mistress’ ear with sweet strains to draw her home with music. Such harmony is natural to the immortal souls of angels, but as long as we are shut into these rude earthly decaying bodies we can’t hear it.Come on. Even the smallest sphere that you can see sings like an angel in its movement, forever harmonising for the keen-eyed cherubim. See how the dark sky is inlaid with patterns of bright gold. The beauty of harmony is suited to stillness and the night. We’ll sit here and let the sound of music fall sweetly on our ears. How sweetly the moonlight falls on this flowerbed. ‘How Sweet The Moonlight Sleeps Upon This Bank!’ Monologue Translation The motions of his spirit are dull as night Is fit for treasons, stratagems and spoils Nor is not moved with concord of sweet sounds, Since nought so stockish, hard and full of rage,īut music for the time doth change his nature. Their savage eyes turn’d to a modest gazeīy the sweet power of music: therefore the poetĭid feign that Orpheus drew trees, stones and floods You shall perceive them make a mutual stand, If they but hear perchance a trumpet sound, Which is the hot condition of their blood The reason is, your spirits are attentive:įetching mad bounds, bellowing and neighing loud, With sweetest touches pierce your mistress’ ear, Still quiring to the young-eyed cherubins ĭoth grossly close it in, we cannot hear it. There’s not the smallest orb which thou behold’st Is thick inlaid with patines of bright gold: Here will we sit and let the sounds of musicĬreep in our ears: soft stillness and the night How sweet the moonlight sleeps upon this bank! Read The Merchant of Venice‘s ‘ How Sweet The Moonlight Sleeps Upon This Bank!’ monologue below with a modern English translation and analysis: Spoken by Lorenzo, The Merchant of Venice, Act 5, Scene 1 Each Shakespeare’s play name links to a range of resources about each play: Character summaries, plot outlines, example essays and famous quotes, soliloquies and monologues: All’s Well That Ends Well Antony and Cleopatra As You Like It The Comedy of Errors Coriolanus Cymbeline Hamlet Henry IV Part 1 Henry IV Part 2 Henry VIII Henry VI Part 1 Henry VI Part 2 Henry VI Part 3 Henry V Julius Caesar King John King Lear Loves Labour’s Lost Macbeth Measure for Measure The Merchant of Venice The Merry Wives of Windsor A Midsummer Night’s Dream Much Ado About Nothing Othello Pericles Richard II Richard III Romeo & Juliet The Taming of the Shrew The Tempest Timon of Athens Titus Andronicus Troilus & Cressida Twelfth Night The Two Gentlemen of Verona The Winter’s Tale This list of Shakespeare plays brings together all 38 plays in alphabetical order. Plays It is believed that Shakespeare wrote 38 plays in total between 15.Or the way someone said he loved me and then slowly changed his mind. ’cause I was never really well around the expectations of my personalityĪnd because I haven’t been very impressed lately. Turning off the phone and blowing out the candles so no one knew I was home. I was still the one locking the door every night. Safe behind the comfort of these four walls and a closed door.īecause as much as I tried or pretended or imagined myself as a part of all the people out there, It’s the way I thought my restless wandering was over, that I’d found whatever I thought I had found, or wanted, or needed, and I started to collect my belongings. The gentle moonlight slipping through my window and the sound of a lonely car somewhere far away, where I long to be too, I think. I checked it out, but couldn't find anything. Nvidia's GeForce Experience has a feature that allows you to change brightness, contrast, and color in-game for a small selection of games, dbd being one of them. The way I lie awake, playing with shadows slowly climbing up my wall. Brightening the game is really only good for finding survivors better.
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