 | Elegant extracts - 1816 - 490 pages
...the 'mazed world By their increase now knows not which is which. Love in Idleness. Thou reiuembcr'st Since once I sat upon a promontory, And heard a mermaid,...civil at her song; And certain stars shot madly from thcit spheres To hear the sea-maid's music. That very time I saw (but thou couldst not) Flying between... | |
 | John Nichols, John Bowyer Nichols - Authors, English - 1817 - 878 pages
...Sc, 2: Thou remember'st Since once I sat upon a promontory, Ar>d heard a mermaid, on a dolphin's bad; Uttering such dulcet and harmonious breath, That the...shot madly from their spheres, To hear the Sea-maid's musick. To which these are an introduction. The compliment made to Queen Elizabeth in the following... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1818 - 332 pages
...unseasonably. VOL. II. R Obe. Well, go thy way : thou shalt not from this grove, Till I torment thee for this injury My gentle Puck, come hither : Thou...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... | |
 | Lucy Aikin - Great Britain - 1818 - 544 pages
...RENEWAL OF NORFOLK'S INTRIGUES alludes in the following ingenious and exquisite passage. . . . . " Once I sat upon a promontory, . •. And heard a Mermaid...from their spheres, To hear the sea-maid's music. *•****#****** That very time I saw, but thou could'st not, Flying between the cold moon and the earth,... | |
 | Lady Morgan (Sydney) - Irish in literature - 1818 - 312 pages
...Lord Rosbrin's grasp. " Rememberest thou," proceeded .Lord Rosbrin, emphatically, "rememberest thou, since once I sat upon a promontory, and heard a mermaid,...harmonious breath, that the rude sea grew civil at her song ?" " Why, then, upon my credit, I can't say I do,'' returned Crawley, with another impatient effort... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1819 - 560 pages
...torment thee for this injury. — s My gentle Puck, come hither : Thou remepber'st Since once I sat upov a promontory, And heard a mermaid, on a dolphin's...her song ; And certain stars shot madly from their sphere!, To hear the sea-maid's musick. 1'nck. I remember. О/и . That very time I saw, (but thou... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1821 - 476 pages
...Titania and her Traln* Obe. Well, go thy way : thou shall not from this grove, Till I torment thee for this injury. My gentle Puck, come hither: thou...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... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1821 - 548 pages
...TITANIA, and her train. OBE. Well, go thy way : thou shalt not from this grove, Till I torment thee for this injury. — My gentle Puck, come hither :...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 word... | |
 | 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—... | |
 | 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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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. 
