 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
 | Robert Hamilton (M.D., F.R.S.E.) - 1839 - 410 pages
...great dramatist with not less fancy than fable — I heard a. Mermaid on a dolphin's bacK — Uttering such dulcet and harmonious breath, - That the rude sea grew civil at her song ^ We shall transcribe the account of two incidents which were observed in the Southern Hemisphere.... | |
 | Sir William Jardine - 1839 - 414 pages
...great dramatist 'with not less fancy than fable — I heard a Mermaid on a dolphin's bacK — Uttering such dulcet and harmonious breath, That the rude sea grew civil at her song We shall transcribe the account of two incidents which were observed in the Southern Hemisphere. "... | |
 | Sir Cuthbert Sharp - 1840 - 490 pages
...Since once I sat upon a promontory, And heard a mermaid, on a dolphin's back, Uttering such duicet and harmonious breath, That the rude sea grew civil at her song, And certain ataraahot madiy from their sphersa To hear the sea-maid's music." THE accidental discovery... | |
 | Elizabeth Elkins Sanders - 1841 - 218 pages
...remember'st Since once 1 sat upon a promontory, And heard a mermaid, on a dolphin's back, :Uttering snch 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. That very time I... | |
 | Agnes Strickland - 1842 - 1008 pages
...affianced husband Nor' ' Dnce 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.'' The rebel earls entered... | |
 | 1842 - 586 pages
...Shakspeare not only imagined he saw, but called the testimony of another sense ; he 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... | |
 | S. Warrand - 1842 - 580 pages
...Shakspeare not only imagined he saw, but called the testimony of another sense ; he heard her ii 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... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1842 - 582 pages
...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 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. Obe.... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1843 - 1008 pages
...Thou remember'st Since once I sat upon a promontory, And heard a mermaid on a dolphin's back, Uttering y the plot, then draw the model, ; And certain stars shot madly from their spheres. To hear the sea-maid's musick. Puck. I remember.... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1843 - 654 pages
...Thou rememberst 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.... | |
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