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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. "
Twelfth-night. Measure for measure. Much ado about nothing. Midsummer-night ... - Page 324
by William Shakespeare, Alexander Chalmers - 1811
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The Dramatic Works of William Shakespeare: With a Life of the Poet, and ...

William Shakespeare - 1851 - 772 pages
...Tit, i. Not for thy fairy-kingdom. — Fairies, a way. We shall chide down-right, if I longer stay. Obe. Well, go thy way. Thou shalt not from this grove,...shot madly 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...
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The dramatic works of William Shakspeare, from the text ..., Part 47, Volume 1

William Shakespeare - 1851 - 540 pages
...kingdom.—Fairies, away: We shall chide downright, if I longer stay. Obe. Give me that boy, and I will go with thee. Obe. Well, go thy way: thou shalt not from this grove,...harmonious breath, That the rude sea grew civil at her son*; And certain stars spot madly from their spheres, To hear the sea-maid's music. [Exeunt TITANIA...
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Imagination and Fancy: Or, Selections from the English Poets, Illustrative ...

Leigh Hunt - English poetry - 1851 - 282 pages
...chide down-right, if I longer stay. [Exeunt TITANIA and her train. Ober. Well, go thy way : thou shall not from this grove, Till I torment thee for this...harmonious breath, That the rude sea grew civil at her song ; jln.d certain stars shot madly from their spheres, To hear the sea-maid's music. Puck. I remember,...
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Supernatural Illusions

P. I. Begbie, Peter James Begbie - Supernatural - 1851 - 534 pages
...what the native articles of war call, " Bunkal Point," or the Tenasserim Provinces. CHAPTER XXIII. " Thou remember'st Since once I sat upon a promontory,...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...
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The Comedies, Histories, Tragedies, and Poems of William Shakspere, Volume 1

William Shakespeare - 1851 - 604 pages
...from this grove. Till I torment thee for this injury. My gentle Puck, come hither : Thou remember'st18 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...
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The comedies, histories, tragedies and poems of William Shakspere ..., Volume 1

William Shakespeare - 1851 - 688 pages
...from this grove, Till I torment thee for this injury. My gentle Puck, come hither : Thou remember'stI3 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. ORE. That very time I saw, (but thou couldst not,) Flying between the cold...
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The Comedies, Histories, Tragedies, and Poems of William Shakspere, Volume 6

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...
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Lives of the queens of England, from the Norman conquest. By A ..., Volume 4

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,...
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Dictionary of Shakespearian Quotations: Exhibiting the Most Forcible ...

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...
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Illustrated hand-book to Lowestoft, with details of the new route to Denmark ...

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...shot madly 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...
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