 | Agnes Strickland - 1851 - 820 pages
...by the captive queen to charm the northern magnates from their duty to their own sovereign: 2 — " Once I sat upon a promontory, And heard a mermaid...shot madly from their spheres To hear the sea-maid's musie." The rebel earls entered Durham in warlike array, November 14th; Richard Norton, of Norton Conyers,... | |
 | P. I. Begbie, Peter James Begbie - Supernatural - 1851 - 534 pages
...articles of war call, " Bunkal Point," or the Tenasserim Provinces. CHAPTER XXIII. " Thou remember'st Since once I sat upon a promontory, And heard a mermaid...certain stars shot madly from their spheres, To hear the sea maid's music !" MIDSUMMER, NIGHT'S DREAM, Act ii., Scene 2. OF SEA MONSTERS. Dr. Brauner, in this... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1851 - 462 pages
...ear like the sweet south, That breathes upon a bank of violets, Stealing and giving odour. TN i. 1. Once I sat upon a promontory, And heard a mermaid,...shot madly from their spheres, To hear the sea-maid's musrc. MN ii. 2. Let there be no noise made, my gentle friends ; Unless some dull and favourable baud... | |
 | Lowestoft (England) - 1851 - 102 pages
...although the Lowestoft fisherman does not by any means excel as a musician, having assuredly never " Sat upon a promontory, And heard a mermaid, on a dolphin's...from their spheres, To hear the sea-maid's music"— 15 still, he probably stands unsurpassed as a daring and intrepid mariner, ready at all times to peril... | |
 | 398 pages
...Radiaria, on the contrary, have as their dwelling 'The sea, the sea, the open sea." Shakspeare tells us of 'A mermaid on a dolphin's back, Uttering such dulcet...from their spheres, To hear the Sea-maid's music." I will not venture to affirm that these stars were changed into Sea-jellies and Star-fishes, and that... | |
 | Joseph Guy - 1852 - 458 pages
...COMMISSIONS PUCK TO GATHER HIM A CERTAIN FLOWER. Obe. My gentle Puck, come hither : Thou remember'st Since once I sat upon a promontory, And heard a mermaid,...spheres, To hear the sea-maid's music. Puck. I remember. Obe. That very time I saw, (but thou could'st not,) Flying between the cold moon and the earth, Cupid... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1852 - 512 pages
...this grove, ТЦ1 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,...her song ; And certain stars shot madly from their sphere», Tn hear the sea-maid's music. Puck. I remember. Obe. That very time I saw (but thou could'st... | |
 | William Shakespeare, John Payne Collier - 1853 - 1158 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...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 moon and the earth, Cupid... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1853 - 746 pages
...from this grove Till I torment thee for this injury. — My gentle Puck, come hither. Thou rememberst Since once I sat upon a promontory, And heard a mermaid,...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 moon and the earth, Cupid... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1853 - 928 pages
...this grove, Till I torment thee for this injury.— My gentle Puck, come hither : thou remember'st im welcome to the shore : And, when he heard him swear,...kind heart and pity niov'd, Swore him assistance, and Obe. That very time I saw (but thou could'st not), Flying between the cold moon and the earth, Cupid... | |
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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. 
