 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.  Memoirs of the Court of Queen Elizabeth - Page 12by Lucy Aikin - 1818Full view - About this book
 | Lady Morgan (Sydney) - Irish in literature - 1818 - 312 pages
...Rosbrin's grasp. " Rememberest thou," proceeded .Lord Rosbrin, emphatically, "rememberest thou, since once I sat upon a promontory, and heard a mermaid,...harmonious breath, that the rude sea grew civil at her song ?" " Why, then, upon my credit, I can't say I do,'' returned Crawley, with another impatient effort... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1819 - 560 pages
...torment thee for this 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...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... | |
 | Charlotte Anne Eaton - Rome (Italy) - 1820 - 448 pages
...a dolphin's back, Uttering such pleasing and harmonious breath, That the rude sea grew civil at his song, And certain stars shot madly from their spheres, To hear the minstrefs music." Poetry apart, however, Arion on the Dolphin's back, is a beautiful painting, by Romanelli.... | |
 | English literature - 1836 - 570 pages
...politics on record; but it shows that he entertained the same mixed notion of the mermaid and siren. " Once I sat upon a promontory, And heard a mermaid...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 - 550 pages
...grove, Till I torment thee for this injury. — My gentle Puck, come hither : Thou remember 'st Since once I sat upon a promontory, And heard a mermaid,...shot madly from their spheres. To hear the sea-maid's musick 9. woman who walks forward must follow her womb. The absurdity is avoided by leaving the v/ord—... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1821 - 476 pages
...this grove, Till I torment thee for this injury. My gentle Puck, come hither: thou remember'st Since once I sat upon a promontory, And heard a mermaid...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... | |
 | 1820 - 696 pages
...and there, indeed, let him name bis name, and tell them plainly be is " GM ELLEN : A SIMPLE TALE. " A mermaid on a dolphin's back, Uttering such dulcet...breath, That the rude sea grew civil at her song." SHAKSPEABK. ABOUT six years ago I was staying at , a watering-place on the Sussex coast. It was one... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1821 - 486 pages
...PLACES, When the glass fell, wherein they view'd their faces.] So, in A Midsummer-Night's Dream : " the rude sea grew civil at her song, " And certain...madly from their spheres, " To hear the sea-maid's musick." Why, Priam's palace, however beautiful or magnificent, should be called the mirrour in which... | |
 | 1821 - 456 pages
...there, indeed, let him name his name, and tell them plainly he GM ' ELLEN : .-' A SIMPLE TALE. . — " A mermaid on a dolphin's back. Uttering such dulcet...harmonious breath, That the rude sea grew civil at ber song." SHAKSPEARE. ABOUT six years ago I was staying at — . .. , a watering-place on the Sussex... | |
 | Sir Walter Scott - Great Britain - 1821 - 352 pages
...added to their exquisite delicacy of tact and beauty of description, the celebrated vision of Oberon. " That very time I saw, (but thou could'st not,) Flying between the cold moon and the earth, Cupid, all arm'd : a certain aim he took At a fair vestal, throned by the west ; And loos'd his love-shaft... | |
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