 | Sir Cuthbert Sharp - Great Britain - 1840 - 478 pages
...Since once I sat upon a promontory, And heard a mermaid, on a dolphin's back, Uttering such duicet and harmonious breath, That the rude sea grew civil at her song, And certain ataraahot madiy from their sphersa To hear the sea-maid's music." THE accidental discovery... | |
 | Elizabeth Elkins Sanders - 1841 - 218 pages
...remember'st Since once 1 sat upon a promontory, And heard a mermaid, on a dolphin's back, :Uttering snch 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. That very time I... | |
 | Agnes Strickland - 1842 - 1006 pages
...daughter of Surrey, and sister of Mary's affianced husband Nor' ' Dnce I sat upon a promontory, And heard a mermaid on a dolphin's back, Uttering such...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.'' The rebel earls entered... | |
 | William Shakespeare, John Payne Collier - 1842 - 582 pages
...this injury. — My gentle Puck, come hither: thou remember'st Since once I sat upon a promontory, And heard a mermaid on a dolphin's back Uttering such...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. Puck. I remember. Obe.... | |
 | Dorothea Kehler - Comedy - 1998 - 520 pages
...and the heavens are cold and high. Oberon. Thou rememb'rest Since once I sat upon a promontory, And heard a mermaid on a dolphin's back Uttering such...harmonious breath That the rude sea grew civil at her song, And certain stars shot madly from their spheres, To hear the sea-maids's music? Robin. I remember.... | |
 | Roberta J. M. Olson, Jay M. Pasachoff - Art - 1999 - 412 pages
...similar images [Figs. 150, 151]. Shakespeare's text reads: Since once I sat upon a promontory, And heard a mermaid on a dolphin's back Uttering such...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. That very time I saw... | |
 | Jan Bondeson - History - 1999 - 336 pages
...Nights Dream, Oberon tells Puck that Once I ¿at upon a promontory, And heard a mermaid on a dolphins back Uttering such dulcet and harmonious breath, That the rude sea grew civil at her song, And certain stars ¿hot madly from their spheres To hear the sea-maids music. Unlike his distinguished... | |
 | Park Honan - Biography & Autobiography - 1998 - 522 pages
...but Oberon reminds Puck, as if to conjure up the Kenilworth pageant: once I sat upon a promontory And heard a mermaid on a dolphin's back Uttering such...harmonious breath That the rude sea grew civil at her song. (11. i. It was never unwise to flatter the Queen, and even in the 1570s she protected the players.... | |
 | Thomas Leech - Business & Economics - 2001 - 328 pages
...a flash the voice of Paul Harvey when it comes on the radio? . . . once I sat upon a promontory And heard a mermaid, on a dolphin's back, Uttering such...breath, That the rude sea grew civil at her song, And certain stars shot madly from their spheres . . . Oberon, A Midsummer Night's Dream. 2, 1 Voices... | |
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Since 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. 
