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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 ? Puck. "
The Stratford Shakspere: Midsummer night's dream. Merchant of Venice. As you ... - Page 18
by William Shakespeare - 1867
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The Romance of Nature, Or, The Flower-seasons Illustrated

Mrs. Charles Meredith - Botanical illustration - 1836 - 400 pages
...PANSIES; OR LOVE IN IDLENESS. Oberon. My gentle Puck, come hither : thou remember'st Since once I Bat upon a promontory. And heard a mermaid on a dolphin's...certain stars shot madly from their spheres, To hear the sea maid's music. Ptick. I remember— Obcron. That very time I saw, (but thou could'st not) Flying...
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Prolusiones Historicæ: Or, Essays Illustrative of the Halle of John Halle ...

Edward Duke - Architecture, Domestic - 1837 - 686 pages
...prudent, Ulysses, thus does our great dramatist make Oberon, in conversation with Puck, to aver: " Thou remember'st Since once I sat upon a promontory,...from their spheres To hear the sea-maid's music.'' * The Mermaid pourtrayed in the present engraving, beautiful in person, yet, alas ! desinens in piscem,...
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Prolusiones Historicæ: Or, Essays Illustrative of the Halle of John Halle ...

Edward Duke - Architecture, Domestic - 1837 - 686 pages
...thus does our great dramatist make Oberon, in conversation with Puck, to aver : • " Thou remembcr'st Since once I sat upon a promontory, And heard a mermaid,...from their spheres To hear the sea-maid's music." * The Mermaid pourtrayed in the present engraving, beautiful in person, yet, alas ! desinens in piscem,...
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The Dramatic Works of William Shakspeare: Midsummer-night's dream. Love's ...

William Shakespeare - 1839 - 550 pages
...chide down-right, if I longer stay. [Exeunt TITANIA and her Train. Obe. Well, go thy way. Thou shall not from this grove, Till I torment thee for this...Flying between the cold moon and the earth, Cupid all armed. A certain aim he took At a fair vestal,1 throned by the west ; And loosed his love-shaft smartly...
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American Monthly Knickerbocker, Volume 15

American periodicals - 1840 - 568 pages
...reminded of Oberon's exquisite description of music and moonlight on the ocean : ' Thou rememberest Since once I sat upon a promontory, And heard a mermaid...certain stars shot madly from their spheres, To hear the sea-maid'a music.' Indeed, I was in the very mood to conjure up all the imaginary beings with which...
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Lives of the queens of England, from the Norman conquest. By A ..., Volumes 5-6

Agnes Strickland - 1842 - 1006 pages
...wife, lady Jane Howard, the daughter of Surrey, and sister of Mary's affianced husband Nor' ' Dnce I sat upon a promontory, And heard a mermaid on a...certain stars shot madly from their spheres, To hear the sea maid's music.'' The rebel earls entered Durham in warlike array, November 14th ; Richard Norton,...
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The works of Shakspere, revised from the best authorities: with a ..., Volume 1

William Shakespeare - 1843 - 658 pages
...If not, shun me, and I will spare your haunts. Obe. Give me that boy, and I will go with thee. Tila. Not for thy fairy kingdom. Fairies away : We shall...Flying between the cold moon and the earth, Cupid all armed : a certain aim he took At a fair vestal, throned by the west ; And loosed his love-shaft smartly...
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The family Shakespeare [expurgated by T. Bowdler]. in which those words are ...

William Shakespeare - 1843 - 1008 pages
...Tita. Not for thy kingdom. — I'aries, away : We shall chide downright, if I longer stay. [Ej'-niü r ; — Indeed the instant action, (a cause on foot,)...build, We first survey the plot, then draw the model, musick. Puck. I remember. Obe. That very time I saw, but thou coultl'st not, Flying between the cold...
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Midsummer-night's dream. Love's labor's lost. Merchant of Venice. As y@u ...

William Shakespeare - 1844 - 554 pages
...spare your haunts. Obe. Give me that boy, and I will go with thee. Tita. Not for thy fairy-kingdom. — Fairies, away. We shall chide down-right, if I longer...Flying between the cold moon and the earth, Cupid all armed. A certain aim he took At a fair vestal,1 throned by the west ; And loosed his love-shaft smartly...
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Lives of the Queens of England, from the Norman Conquest: With ..., Volume 6

Agnes Strickland, Elisabeth Strickland - Great Britain - 1844 - 532 pages
...Surrey, and sister of Mary's affianced husband Nor* White Doe of Rylstone, or the Fate of the Nortons. " Once I sat upon a promontory, And heard a mermaid...certain stars shot madly from their spheres, To hear the sea maid's music.'* The rebel earls entered Durham in warlike array, November 14th; Richard Norton,...
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