All 5 Uses of
solemn
in
The Tempest
- [Enter ARIEL, invisible, playing solemn music] SEBASTIAN†
Scene 2.1solemn = very serious--possibly dignified
- [Solemn and strange music: and PROSPERO above, invisible†
Scene 3.3
- The solemn temples
Scene 4.1 *solemn = serious and dignified
- Ye elves of hills, brooks, standing lakes, and groves; And ye that on the sands with printless 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 Jove's stout oak With his own bolt: the strong-bas'd promontory Have I made shake; and by the spurs pluck'†
Scene 5.1solemn = very serious--possibly dignified
- 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:
in a very serious (and often dignified) manner