 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
 | William Shakespeare - 1824 - 882 pages
...gentle Puck, come hither! Thouremember'st Since once I sat upon a promontory, And heard amermaid, ona LAK F KmMnM theirspheres, To hear the sea-maid's music. Puck. I remember. Obe. That very time I saw, (but thou... | |
 | Winthrop Mackworth Praed, Walter Blunt - English essays - 1824 - 396 pages
...and there, indeed, let him name his name, and tell them plainly he is " GM ELLEN : A SIMPLE TALE. i " A mermaid on a dolphin's back, Uttering such dulcet...breath, That the rude sea grew civil at her song." SIIAKSPEARE. ABOUT six years ago I was staying at , a watering-place on the Sussex coast. It was one... | |
 | Thomas Ignatius M. Forster - 1824 - 846 pages
...favourite a flower with the Poets as the Violet. Shakespeare thus describes its fancified metamorphosis : That very time I saw, but thou couldst not, 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 loveshaft... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1824 - 434 pages
...their exquisite delicacy of tact and beauty of descripi. tion, the celebrated vision of Oberon : " That very time I saw (but thou couldst 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... | |
 | British poets - 1824 - 676 pages
...steel and stones, Make tygers tame, and huge leviathans Forsake unsounded deeps to dance on sands. Once I sat upon a promontory, And heard a mermaid, on a dolphin's back, Uttering such dulcet aud harmonious breath, That the rude sea grew civil at her song ; And certain stars shot madly from... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1824 - 486 pages
....... Till I torment thee for this injury. — [ber'st My gentle Puck, come hither: Thou rememSince once I sat upon a promontory, And heard a mermaid, on a dolphin's back, Ulteriiig such dulcet and harmonious breath, That the rude sea grew civil at her song; Ami certain... | |
 | William Shakespeare - Actors - 1825 - 1010 pages
...Till I torment thee for this injury* — [grove, My gentle Puck, come hither: Thou remember'st Since $ @ bear the sea-maid's music. Puck. I remember. Oke. That very time Isaw,(bntthoucould'stnot,) Flying... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1825 - 508 pages
...this grove, Till 1 torment thce for this injury. — My gentlePuck, come hither:Tbou remember'st Since once I sat upon a promontory, And heard a mermaid,...; And certain stars shot madly from their spheres, * Petty. t Bank* which contain them. JA (amo played by bojn. V Autumn producing flowcm unseasonably.... | |
 | George Fleming Richardson - 1825 - 224 pages
...just the space to build a cot On these fair banks, the banks of Loire ! THE MERMAID AND THE SAILOR. A mermaid on a dolphin's back, Uttering such dulcet...harmonious breath, That the rude sea grew civil at her song.—Shakspeare. " OH COME," a Mermaid snng, " and dwell With me, in a bright and a sparry cell;... | |
 | Thomas Gray - Fore-edge painting - 1825 - 346 pages
...the battle of Camlau, and accidentally slew his own nephew. Ver. 30. That hush'd the stormy main.] " Uttering such dulcet and harmonious breath, That the rude sea grew civil at her song." Brave Urien sleeps upon his craggy bed : Mountains, ye mourn in rain Modred, whose magic song Made... | |
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