 | William Shakespeare - 1811 - 436 pagine
...hither: Thou remember'st Since once I sat upon a promontory, And heard A mermaid, on a dolphin's back, Uttering such dulcet and harmonious breath, That the...shot madly from their spheres, To hear the sea-maid's music. Puck. I remember. Obe. T*wt very time I saw (but thou could'st not), Flying between the cold... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1810 - 418 pagine
...hither : Thou remember'st Since once I sat upon a promontory, And heard a mermaid, on a dolphin's back, Uttering such dulcet and harmonious breath, That the...shot madly from their spheres, To hear the sea-maid's music. 9 Since cnce I sat up na promontory* And heard a mermaid on a dolphin's back* Uttering such... | |
 | Leigh Hunt - 1815 - 208 pagine
...hither:— thou rememberest, Since once I sat upon a promontory, And heard a mermaid, on a dolphin's back, Uttering such dulcet and harmonious breath, That the...shot madly from their spheres To hear the sea-maid's music ? PUCK. ^ remember. OBKEON. That very time I saw (but thou could'st not), Flying betwixt the... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1872 - 480 pagine
...hither. Thou remember' st Since once I sat upon a promontory, And heard a mermaid, on a dolphin's back, Uttering such dulcet and harmonious breath, That the...shot madly from their spheres, To hear the sea-maid's music." Midsum.-Night's D., ii. 1. "Rush on his host, as doth the melted snow Upon the valleys, whose... | |
 | Elegant extracts - 1816 - 490 pagine
...grew 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...aim he took At a fair vestal, throned by the west ; And loos'd his love-shaft smartly from his bow, A) it should pierce a hundred thousand hearts. But... | |
 | John Nichols, John Bowyer Nichols - 1817 - 878 pagine
...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...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 lines was... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1818 - 332 pagine
...hither : Thou remember'st Since once I sat upon a promontory, And heard a mermaid, on a dolphin's back, Uttering such dulcet and harmonious breath, That the...aim he took At a fair vestal, throned by the west ; And loos'd his love-shaft smartly from his bow, As it should pierce a hundred thousand hearts : But... | |
 | Lucy Aikin - 1818 - 544 pagine
...exquisite passage. . . . . " Once I sat upon a promontory, . •. And heard a Mermaid on a Dolphin's back Uttering such dulcet and harmonious breath, That the...shot madly 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... | |
 | Sir Walter Scott - 1821 - 352 pagine
...added to their exquisite delicacy of tact and beauty of description, the celebrated vision of Oberon. " That very time I saw, (but thou could'st not,) Flying...aim he took At a fair vestal, throned by the west ; And loos'd his love-shaft smartly from his bow, As it should pierce a hundred thousand hearts : But... | |
 | 1821 - 732 pagine
...them ; but he refers to Raleigh, who pronounces, with much grace, the far famed vision of Oberon. " That very time I saw, (but thou couldst not,) Flying...aim he took At a fair vestal, throned by the west ; And loos'd his love-shaft smartly from his bow, As it should pierce a hundred thousand hearts : But... | |
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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 musick. 
