 | David Richman - Comic, The - 1990 - 212 pages
...striking rhythmic and figurative devices: Thou rememb'rest Since once I 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. (2.1.148-54) Obcron invests the herb with the power of the music he is describing. The playwright diverts... | |
 | William Shakespeare - Drama - 1992 - 132 pages
...Thou rememb'rest Since once I sat upon a promontory, And heard a mermaid, on a dolphin's back, 150 Uttering such dulcet and harmonious breath That the...shot madly from their spheres To hear the sea-maid's music.37 I remember. That very time I saw (but thou couldst not), Flying between the cold moon and... | |
 | Peter Thomson - Drama - 1999 - 244 pages
...recalled by Oberon in A Midsummer Night's Dream: Thou remember'st Since once 1 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. (11.i.148-54) Open-air festivities, many of them directly linked to the Christian calendar, punctuated... | |
 | William Shakespeare - Drama - 1994 - 692 pages
...hither. Thou rememberest Since once I sat upon a promontory And heard a mermaid on a dolphin's back i to Uttering such dulcet and harmonious breath That the...spheres To hear the sea-maid's music? PUCK I remember. OBERON That very time I saw - but thou couldst not Flying between the cold moon and the earth Cupid... | |
 | Courtship - 1995 - 108 pages
...for this injury. My gentle Puck, come hither. Thou rememb'rest 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 between the cold moon and the earth, Cupid... | |
 | Nancy B. Watson - Body, Mind & Spirit - 1996 - 274 pages
...rock, lazily combing her hair and admiring her image in a mirror. [O]nce 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. . . 17 The passing male who spies this vision is doomed, for she will lure him to her side, capture... | |
 | William Shakespeare - Drama - 1996 - 1290 pages
...injury. — My gentle I*uck, come hither. Thou remember'st Since once I sat upon a promontory, And I attend your Grace? KING HENRY. No, my good knight;...other company. SIR THOMAS ERPINGHAM. The Lord in h I remember. OBERON. That very time I saw — but thou couldst not — Flying between the cold moon... | |
 | 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...from their spheres. To hear the sea-maid's music. That very time I saw - but thou couldst not Flying between the cold moon and the earth, Cupid all armed;... | |
 | 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...certain stars shot madly from their spheres, To hear the sea-maids's music? Robin. I remember. Oberon. That very time I saw, but thou couldst not, Flying between... | |
 | William Shakespeare - Drama - 2000 - 148 pages
...And certain stars shot madly from their spheres To hear the sea-maid's music? PUCK I remember. OBERON That very time I saw (but thou couldst not) Flying...aim he took At a fair vestal, throned by the west, 158 And loosed his love shaft smartly from his bow, 159 As it should pierce a hundred thousand hearts.... | |
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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. 
