 | William Shakespeare - 2001 - 394 pages
...OBERON. My gentle Puck, come hither, Thou rememberest, When once I sat upon a promontory * And saw a mermaid on a dolphin's back, Uttering such dulcet...spheres To hear the sea-maid's music. PUCK. I remember. OBERON. That very time I saw — (but thou couldst not,) Flying Cupid between the cold moon and the... | |
 | Joseph Twadell Shipley - Foreign Language Study - 2001 - 688 pages
...in A Midsummer Night's Dream, ii, 1 , reminds Puck of such a rider: once 1 sat upon a promontory And heard a mermaid, on a dolphin's back, Uttering such...certain stars shot madly from their spheres To hear the sea maid's music. The dauphin, from the three dolphins on the coat-of-arms of the lords of the province... | |
 | Harold Bloom - Characters and characteristics in literature - 2001 - 750 pages
...prímulas y las cabeceantes violetas, 6. Obe. Thou rememb'rest / Since once I sat upon a promontory, / And heard a mermaid on a dolphin's back / Uttering such...stars shot madly from their spheres / To hear the sea maid's nu1sic? / Puck. I remember. / Obe. That very time I saw (but thou couldst not), / Flying... | |
 | 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...song, And certain stars shot madly from their spheres . . . Oberon, A Midsummer Night's Dream. 2, 1 Voices of pleasant nature, spoken or sung, can definitely... | |
 | William Shakespeare - Drama - 1989 - 1286 pages
...fcr this injury. — My gentle Puck, come hither. Thou rememSince once I sat upon a promontory, *nd ND. I have given over, I will speak no more: Do what...notliing can redeem it. LADY PERCY. O, yet, for God's s OBERON. That very time I saw — but thou couldst not — Flying between the cold moon and the earth,... | |
 | G. Wilsin Knight - Drama - 2002 - 368 pages
...is Oberon's: My gentle Puck, come hither. Thou rememberest Since once I sat upon a promontory, And heard a mermaid on a dolphin's back Uttering such...from their spheres, To hear the sea-maid's music. (ui 148) This is a typical Shakespearian speech. 'Promontory' we meet again in fine and important passages... | |
 | Jan H. Blits - Drama - 2003 - 228 pages
...rememb'rest / Since . . . ?" [2.1.148-49]), he describes how he once . . . sat upon a promontory, And heard a mermaid on a dolphin's back Uttering such...madly from their spheres To hear the sea-maid's music. (2.1.149-54) The mermaid's voice was so sweet and harmonious that it was able to affect both the sea... | |
 | John Kretschmer - Biography & Autobiography - 2003 - 228 pages
...I had to write and for Joe, who will never sail the boat he built Once I sat upon a promontory, And heard a mermaid on a dolphin's back Uttering such...from their spheres, To hear the sea-maid's music. WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE, A Midsummer Night's Dream "Have you ever seen her?" he asked. "Often and often."... | |
 | Naomi J. Miller - Children - 2003 - 348 pages
...class was introduced to Oberon's speech in Act 2, Scene 1: Since once I sat upon a promontory. And heard a mermaid on a dolphin's back Uttering such...at her song And certain stars shot madly from their spheres.1 The children's assignment was to rewrite this speech in their own words, with the proviso... | |
 | Ebenezer Cobham Brewer - Language Arts & Disciplines - 2004 - 592 pages
...from their allegiance to Queen Elizabeth." Thou remember'st Since once I sat upon a promontory, And heard a mermaid, on a dolphin's back, Uttering such...from their spheres, To hear the sea-maid's music. Act ii. sc. 1 (1592). These " stars " were the earl of Northumberland, the earl of Westmoreland, and... | |
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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. 
