 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
 | 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... | |
 | John Nichols, John Bowyer Nichols - 1817 - 866 pages
...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... | |
 | Lady Morgan (Sydney) - 1818 - 312 pages
..."rememberest thou, 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 ?" " Why, then, upon my credit, I can't say I do,'' returned Crawley, with another impatient effort at release.... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1818 - 332 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.... | |
 | Lucy Aikin - 1818 - 544 pages
...passage. . . . . " 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. *•****#****** That... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1819 - 560 pages
...remepber'st Since once I sat upov 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 sphere!, To hear the sea-maid's musick. 1'nck. I remember.... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1821 - 476 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 musie. Puck. I remember.... | |
 | 1820 - 696 pages
...name, and tell them plainly be is " GM ELLEN : A SIMPLE TALE. " A mermaid on a dolphin's back, Uttering such dulcet and harmonious breath, That the rude sea grew civil at her song." SHAKSPEABK. ABOUT six years ago I was staying at , a watering-place on the Sussex coast. It was one... | |
 | 1836 - 570 pages
...mermaid and siren. " 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." Midsummer Night's Dream.... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1821 - 550 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 9. woman who walks... | |
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