 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.  Notes and Queries - Page 121893Full view - About this book
 | William Shakespeare - 1811 - 436 pages
...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 rude sea grew civil at her song ; And certain stars shot madly from their spheres, To hear the sea-maid's music. Puck. I remember.... | |
 | William Shakespeare, Alexander Chalmers - 1811 - 520 pages
...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 rude sea grew civil at her song ; And certain "stars shot madly from their spheres, To hear the sea-maid's musick. Puck. I remember.... | |
 | 1801
...To wantr.n Sea-nymphs— or " a mermaid seated " Upon a Dolphin's back," tocharmed winds " Uttering such dulcet and harmonious breath " That the rude sea grew civil at the song."* Chance had conspir'd with taste to weave the spell. The raven-breasted clouds, with ebon... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1810 - 418 pages
...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 rude sea grew civil at her song ; And certain stars shot madly from their spheres, To hear the sea-maid's music. 9 Since cnce I sat... | |
 | Leigh Hunt - 1814 - 188 pages
...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 rude sea grew civil at her song, And certain stars shot madly from their spheres To hear the sea-maids music ? PUCK. I remember. OBERON.... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1872 - 480 pages
...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 rude sea grew civil at her song ; And certain stars shot madly from their spheres, To hear the sea-maid's music." Midsum.-Night's D.,... | |
 | Thomas Gray, John Mitford - 1816 - 446 pages
...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... | |
 | Elegant extracts - 1816 - 490 pages
...reiuembcr'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 rude sea 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... | |
 | John Nichols - 1817 - 878 pages
...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 rude sea grew civil at her song; And certain stars shot madly from their spheres, To hear the Sea-maid's musick. To which these are... | |
 | 1842 - 850 pages
...Sb&kspeare not only imagined he saw, but called the testimony of another sense; bo heard her " Uttering such dulcet and harmonious breath, That the rude sea grew civil at her song." You must not pass over the last line, the idea beyond the visible nature, giving, endowing with the... | |
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