 | William Shakespeare - 1851 - 606 pages
...this grove, Till I torment thee for this injury. My gentle Puck, come hither : Thou remember 'st u Since once I sat upon a promontory, And heard a mermaid,...shot madly from their spheres, To hear the sea-maid's music. PUCK. I remember. OBE. That very time I saw, (but thou couldst not,) Flying between the cold... | |
 | David Richman - Comic, The - 1990 - 212 pages
...her dotage. Like his consort, he employs striking rhythmic and figurative devices: Thou rememb'rest Since once I sat upon a promontory, And heard a mermaid...shot 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... | |
 | Peter Thomson - Drama - 1999 - 244 pages
...impressionistically 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...shot 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,... | |
 | 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...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 between the cold... | |
 | Courtship - 1995 - 108 pages
...from this grove Till I torment thee for this injury. My gentle Puck, come hither. Thou rememb'rest Since once I sat upon a promontory And heard a mermaid...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 between the cold... | |
 | William Shakespeare - Drama - 1996 - 1290 pages
...go thy way: thou shall not from this grove Till I torment thee for this injury. — My gentle I*uck, bear music. I remember. OBERON. That very time I saw — but thou couldst not — Flying between the cold... | |
 | Nancy B. Watson - Body, Mind & Spirit - 1996 - 274 pages
...(Ondine) sits in her grotto upon a rock, lazily combing her hair and admiring her image in a mirror. [O]nce I sat upon a promontory, And heard a mermaid...shot madly 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,... | |
 | Roberta J. M. Olson, Jay M. Pasachoff - Art - 1999 - 412 pages
...and Arthur Rackham later illustrated with similar images [Figs. 150, 151]. Shakespeare's text reads: Since once I sat upon a promontory, And heard a mermaid...shot madly 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... | |
 | Dorothea Kehler - Comedy - 1998 - 520 pages
...infinite size. There is a specific geography, and the heavens are cold and high. Oberon. Thou rememb'rest Since once I sat upon a promontory, And heard a mermaid...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... | |
 | James Clifford Turner - Language Arts & Disciplines - 2000 - 164 pages
...to become 'a very vile jingle of esses' they will 'ask some care in the true performing' of themMy gentle Puck, come hither. Thou remember'st Since once...shot madly from their spheres, To hear the sea-maid's music. (A Midsummer Night's Dream, II. i.) How sweet the moonlight sleeps upon this bank! Here will... | |
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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. 
