All 5 Uses of
solemn
in
The Tempest
- [Enter ARIEL, invisible, playing solemn music] SEBASTIAN.†
Scene 2.1
- [Solemn and strange music: and PROSPERO above, invisible.†
Scene 3.3
- The solemn temples
Scene 4.1 *solemn = serious and dignified
- …foot Do chase the ebbing Neptune, and do fly him When he comes back; you demi-puppets that By moonshine do the green sour ringlets make, Whereof the ewe not bites; and you whose pastime Is to make midnight mushrooms, that rejoice To hear the solemn curfew; by whose aid,— Weak masters though ye be,—I have bedimm'd The noontide sun, call'd forth the mutinous winds, And 'twixt the green sea and the azur'd vault Set roaring war: to the dread rattling thunder Have I given fire, and rifted…†
Scene 5.1
- ] A solemn air, and the best comforter To an unsettled fancy, cure thy brains, Now useless, boil'd within thy skull!†
Scene 5.1
Definition:
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(solemn) in a very serious (and often dignified) manner