 | William Shakespeare - 2007 - 1288 pages
...chide downright, if I longer stay. [Exit TITANIA with her TRAIN. OBERON. Well, go thy way: thou shall not from this grove Till I torment thee for this injury....shot madly from their spheres, To hear the sea-maid's music. I remember. OBERON. That very time I saw — but thou couldst not — Flying between the cold... | |
 | 532 pages
...Midsummer Night's Dream," is one of the most extravagant things in literature : " Thou rememberest Since once I sat upon a promontory, And heard a mermaid...shot madly from their spheres To hear the sea-maid's music." This is so marvelously told that it almost seems probable. So the description of Mark Antony... | |
 | Peter Jeans - 2007 - 382 pages
...Horatio (see, for example, chapter 17, Sea Monsters, for a discussion of this perennial topic). MERMAIDS "Since once I sat upon a promontory, And heard a mermaid...shot madly from their spheres To hear the sea-maid's music. " WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE, A MIDSUMMER NIGHT'S DREAM Thus speaks Oberon, Shakespeare's king of the... | |
 | Russell A. Fraser - 568 pages
...and the mermaid, saluting the "fair vestal" Elizabeth, gave Shakespeare's fairy king some good lines: Once I sat upon a promontory And heard a mermaid,...certain stars shot madly from their spheres To hear the sea maid's music. Arion had a speech, addressed to the Queen, but making too free of the silver wine... | |
 | Patricia Ferguson - 2007 - 349 pages
...gropingly, Once I sat upon a promontory, he remembered suddenly, and heard a mermaid on a dolphins back uttering such dulcet and harmonious breath that...shot madly from their spheres, to hear the sea-maid's music. 'Are you all right, Will?' He smiled at her. 'In rep in Birmingham there, for a second. The... | |
 | Elinor De Wire - 2007 - 354 pages
...than this." Thou rememb 'rest Since once I sat upon a promontory And heard a mermaid, on a dolphin s back, Uttering such dulcet and harmonious breath That...certain stars shot madly from their spheres To hear the sea-maid 's music. Epilogue A view from above a Fresnel lens on display at Ponce de Leon Inlet Lighthouse... | |
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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. 
