 | John Nichols, John Bowyer Nichols - Authors, English - 1817 - 878 pages
...Sc, 2: Thou remember'st Since once I sat upon a promontory, Ar>d heard a mermaid, on a dolphin's bad; Uttering such dulcet and harmonious breath, That the...shot madly from their spheres, To hear the Sea-maid's musick. To which these are an introduction. The compliment made to Queen Elizabeth in the following... | |
 | Lucy Aikin - Great Britain - 1818 - 544 pages
...in the following ingenious and exquisite passage. . . . . " 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. *•****#****** That very time I saw, but thou could'st not, Flying between the cold moon and the earth,... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1818 - 332 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...shot madly from their spheres, To hear the sea-maid's musick. Puck. I remember. Obe. That very time I saw, (but thou could'st not,) Flying between the cold... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1819 - 560 pages
...injury. — s My gentle Puck, come hither : Thou remepber'st Since once I sat upov a promontory, And heard a mermaid, on a dolphin's back, Uttering such...her song ; And certain stars shot madly from their sphere!, To hear the sea-maid's musick. 1'nck. I remember. О/и . That very time I saw, (but thou... | |
 | English literature - 1836 - 570 pages
...he entertained the same mixed notion of the mermaid and siren. " 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." Midsummer Night's Dream. A siren then, in the modern sense of the word, may be regarded as a mermaid... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1821 - 476 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...shot madly from their spheres, To hear the sea-maid's musie. Puck. I remember. Obe. That very time I saw, (but thou couldst not,) Flying between the cold... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1821 - 548 pages
...mermaid, on a dolphin's back, PUCK. I remember. OBE. That very time I saw, (but thou could'st not,) Uttering such dulcet and harmonious breath, That the...shot madly from their spheres, To hear the sea-maid's musick.] The first thing observable on these words is, that this action of the mcrmnid is laid in the... | |
 | Elizabeth Kent - Botany - 1823 - 498 pages
...OJERON. 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...spheres To hear the sea-maid's music? PUCK. I remember. OBERON. That very time I saw (but thou couldst not,) Flying betwixt the cold earth and the moon, Cupid... | |
 | William Shakespeare - Theater - 1823 - 436 pages
...injury. — My gently Puck, come hither : Thou remember'st Since once I sat upon a promontory, And heard a mermaid, on a dolphin's back, Uttering such...spheres, To hear the sea-maid's music. Puck. I remember. Obe. That very time I saw (but thou could'st not,) Flying between the cold moon and the earth, Cupid... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1823 - 474 pages
...the sons of gentlemen, who. stood or walked near the person of the monarch on all public occasions. Uttering such dulcet and harmonious breath, That the...shot madly from their spheres, To hear the sea-maid's musick. Puck. I remember. Obe. That very time I saw, (but thou could'st not,) Flying between the cold... | |
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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. 
