 | Linda Austern, Inna Naroditskaya - Music - 2006 - 440 pages
...words of a global favorite of today, an English playwright from the age of colonial expansion: . . . once I sat upon a promontory And heard a mermaid on...shot madly from their spheres To hear the sea-maid's music.5 The siren's acoustic power and its capacity to affect the external world span centuries and... | |
 | William Shakespeare - Drama - 2006 - 191 pages
...for this injury. My gentle Puck, come hither. Thou rememberest Since once I sat upon a promontory 150 And heard a mermaid on a dolphin's back Uttering such...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 moon and the earth... | |
 | William Shakespeare - Dramatists, English - 2007 - 1280 pages
...chide downright, if I longer stay. [Exit TITANIA with her TRAIN. OBERON. Well, go thy way: thou shall D < I remember. OBERON. That very time I saw — but thou couldst not — Flying between the cold moon... | |
 | Leigh Hunt - Poetry - 2007 - 330 pages
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 | Peter Jeans - Sports & Recreation - 2007 - 382 pages
...Horatio (see, for example, chapter 17, Sea Monsters, for a discussion of this perennial topic). MERMAIDS "Since once I sat upon a promontory, And heard a mermaid...madly from their spheres To hear the sea-maid's music. " WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE, A MIDSUMMER NIGHT'S DREAM Thus speaks Oberon, Shakespeare's king of the fairies,... | |
 | Robert G. Ingersoll - Literary Collections - 2007 - 516 pages
...Midsummer Night's Dream," is one of the most extravagant things in literature : " Thou rememberest Since once I sat upon a promontory, And heard a mermaid...from their spheres To hear the sea-maid's music." This is so marvelously told that it almost seems probable. So the description of Mark Antony : " For... | |
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