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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 music. "
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1893
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The St. Petersburg English Review, of Literature, the Arts, and ..., Volume 3

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...
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The St. Peterburg English Review, Volume 3

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...
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The works of William Shakespeare, the text formed from an entirely ..., Volume 2

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....
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The family Shakespeare [expurgated by T. Bowdler]. in which those words are ...

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....
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The works of Shakspere, revised from the best authorities: with a ..., Volume 1

William Shakespeare - 1843 - 658 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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Knight's Cabinet edition of the works of William Shakspere, Volume 2

William Shakespeare - 1843 - 376 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....
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William Shakspere: A Biography, Book 2

Charles Knight - 1843 - 566 pages
...Since once I sat upon a promontory, And heard a mermaid, on a dolphin's back, Uttering such duleet 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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Lives of the Queens of England, from the Norman Conquest: With ..., Volume 6

Agnes Strickland, Elisabeth Strickland - 1844 - 532 pages
...Fate of the Nortons. " 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.'* The rebel earls entered...
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The Student: a magazine of theology, literature, and science

1844 - 1128 pages
...contained in the well-known lines of Shakspeare :— " I 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." Nevertheless it must...
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Memoirs of the Loves of the Poets: Biographical Sketches of Women Celebrated ...

Mrs. Jameson (Anna) - 1844 - 384 pages
...free. And the previous allusion to Mary of Scotland, as the " Sea Maid on the Dolphin's back," Uttering such dulcet and harmonious breath, That the rude sea grew civil at her eong, It would, in truth, have been easier for Mary to have calmed the rude sea than her ruder and...
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