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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. "
Pearls of Shakspeare, a collection of the most brilliant passages found in ... - Page 30
by William Shakespeare - 1860
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The Dramatic Works of William Shakspeare: To which are Added His ...

William Shakespeare - 1821 - 476 pages
...: thou shall not from this grove, Till I torment thee for this injury. My gentle Puck, come hither: thou remember'st Since once I sat upon a promontory,...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...
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The New Monthly Magazine and Literary Journal, Volume 47

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...
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The Plays and Poems of William Shakspeare, Volume 5

William Shakespeare - 1821 - 550 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 musick 9. woman who walks forward must follow her womb. The absurdity is avoided by leaving the v/ord—...
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The Etonian

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...
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The Plays and Poems of William Shakspeare: With the Corrections ..., Volume 20

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...
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The Etonian, Volume 2

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...
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The Plays of William Shakspeare, Volume 2

William Shakespeare - Theater - 1823 - 436 pages
...thou shalt not from this grove, Till I torment thee for this injury. — My gently Puck, come hither : Thou remember'st Since once I sat upon a promontory,...from their 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...
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Flora Domestica: Or, The Portable Flower-garden : with Directions for the ...

Elizabeth Kent - Botany - 1823 - 498 pages
...not interrupt himself in his chair : — OJERON. My gentle Puck, come hither : — thou rememberest, Since once I sat upon a promontory, And heard a mermaid,...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 betwixt the cold earth...
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The dramatic works of William Shakspeare, from the text of Johnson, Stevens ...

William Shakespeare - 1823 - 984 pages
...thou shall not from this grove, 1 ill I torment thee for this injury. — My gentle Puck, come hither: vage, and inhuman creature ! Thou, that didst boar...my soul, That almost might's! have coin'd me into snot madly from their spheres, • Petty. f Banks which contain them. t A game played by boy*. i Autumn...
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The plays of William Shakspeare, pr. from the text of the ..., Volume 2

William Shakespeare - 1823 - 474 pages
...the sons of gentlemen, who. stood or walked near the person of the monarch on all public occasions. Uttering such dulcet and harmonious breath, That the...shot madly from their spheres, To hear the sea-maid's musick. Puck. I remember. Obe. That very time I saw, (but thou could'st not,) Flying between the cold...
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