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 To hear the sea-maid's music. The Elizabethan Stage - Pagina 124di Edmund Kerchever Chambers - 1923Visualizzazione completa - Informazioni su questo libro
| William Shakespeare - 1805 - 328 pagine
...And heard a mermaid, on a dolphin's back, Uttering snch dnleet -and harmonions breath, That the rnde sea grew civil at her song; And certain stars shot madly from their sphtres, To hear the sea-maid's mn^ick* Pnck. I remember. Ole. That very time I saw, (bnt thon conld'at... | |
| William Shakespeare - 1806 - 384 pagine
...apparently used, in an earlier instance, as a trisyllable. Steevens. 6 Thou remember'st Since once 1 sat upon a promontory, And heard a mermaid, on a dolphin's...certain stars shot madly from their spheres, To hear the sea-maida musick. "\ The first thing observable on these words is, that this action of the mermaid... | |
| Leigh Hunt - 1814 - 188 pagine
...not interrupt himself in his chair : — OBERON. My gentle Puck, come hither: — thou rememberest, Since once I sat upon a promontory, And heard a mermaid,...certain stars shot madly from their spheres To hear the sea-maids music ? PUCK. I remember. OBERON. That very time I saw (but thou could'st not,) Flying betwixt... | |
| Leigh Hunt - 1814 - 216 pagine
...thou rememberest, Since once I sat upon a promontory, And keard a mermaid, on a dolphin's \>ank, • Uttering such dulcet and harmonious breath, That the...certain stars shot madly from their spheres To hear the sea-maids music ? PUCK. I remember. OBERON. That very time I saw (but thou could'st not,) Flying betwixt... | |
| Leigh Hunt - 1815 - 186 pagine
...Puck, come hither: — thou rememberest, Since once I sat upon a promontory, And heard a mi'.mmid, on a dolphin's back, Uttering such dulcet and harmonious...certain stars shot madly from their spheres To hear the sea-maids music ? l'l-CK. I iTinrmln'r. That ye»y U«e J sflw (buj: J.hpu coujd'sf ,np,t,) Flying... | |
| William Shakespeare - 1872 - 480 pagine
...with the splendid passage in ii. 1, where Oberon describes to Puck how, on a certain occasion, " I heard a mermaid, on a dolphin's back, Uttering such...breath, That the rude sea grew civil at her song." And all are no doubt aware that the subsequent lines, referring to " a fair vestal throned by the west,"... | |
| Elegant extracts - 1816 - 490 pagine
...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... | |
| Thomas Gray, John Mitford - 1816 - 446 pagine
...can no where find a bard mentioned of the name of ' Modred.' Ver. 30. That hush'd the stormy main} " Uttering such dulcet and harmonious breath, That the rude sea grew civil at her song." Mids. N. Dream, act ii. sc. 2. W. Cadwaller's harp no more is strung, And silence sits on soft Llewellyn's... | |
| 1831 - 1044 pagine
...Chatelar : well might Elizabeth fear her — " The mermaid, Uttering such dulcet anil harmonious sound, That the rude sea grew civil at her song, And certain stars shot madly from their spheres, To hear tho sea-maid's music." The Stuarts, an ingenious but unhappy race, were cultivators and encouragers... | |
| John Nichols, John Bowyer Nichols - 1817 - 866 pagine
...Night's Dream, Act II. Sc. 2; Thou remernber'st Since once I sat upon a promontory, And heard a merniaid, on a dolphin's back, Uttering such dulcet and harmonious breath, That the rude sea grew civil at her sung; And certain stars shot madly from their spheres, To hear the Sea-maid's mu>id\. To which these... | |
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