 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.  Choice Specimens of English Literature - Pagina 110geredigeerd door - 1870 - 477 pagina’sVolledige weergave - Over dit boek
 | William Hylton Dyer Longstaffe - 1854 - 610 pagina’s
...a small ruinous apartment of the castle named €l)t J3rimr'sf Cljambtr. M. &fje " Thou rememberest Since once I sat upon a promontory, And heard a mermaid,...shot madly from their spheres, To hear the sea-maid's musick." Midsummer NigWi Dream. THE White Rose had ceased to bloom, but its fragrance was remembered.... | |
 | Richard Grant White - 1854 - 594 pagina’s
...? How did it get there ; and when it got there, how did it stay there ? " Oberon. Thou remember'st Since once I sat upon a promontory, And heard a mermaid...certain stars shot madly from their spheres To hear the sea maid's music." How strangely felicitous the choice of epithet by Shakespeare ! and yet there is... | |
 | Washington Irving - 1855 - 374 pagina’s
...reminded of Oberon's exquisite description of music and moonlight on the ocean : " Thou rememberest Since once I sat upon a promontory. And heard a mermaid...from their spheres. To hear the sea-maid's music." Indeed, I was in the very mood to conjure up all the imaginary beings with which poetry has peopled... | |
 | Washington Irving - 1855 - 266 pagina’s
...reminded of Oberon's exquisite description of music and moonlight on the ocean : — " Thou rememberest Since once I sat upon a promontory And heard a mermaid...from their spheres, To hear the sea-maid's music." Indeed, I was in the very mood to conjure up all the imaginary beings with which poetry has peopled... | |
 | David Masson - 1856 - 528 pagina’s
...we find examples of the same hardly paralleled in the rest of literature. Thus, ad aperturam, — " Thou remember' st Since once I sat upon a promontory,...from their spheres, To hear the sea-maid's music." HH " Sit, Jessica ; look how the floor of heaven Is thick inlaid with patines of bright gold. There's... | |
 | William Edmondstoune Aytoun - 1856 - 292 pagina’s
...Night's Dream ' ' were meant to apply to Mary : — " My gentle Puck, come hither : Thou remember'st Since once I sat upon a promontory, And heard a mermaid,...from their spheres, To hear the sea-maid's music." This theory of Warburton 's led to an animated controversy, his opponents declaring that they were... | |
 | David Masson - 1856 - 494 pagina’s
...of the same hardly paralleled in the rest of literature. Thus, ad aperturam, — " Thou remember'st Since once I sat upon a promontory, And heard a mermaid...from their spheres, To hear the sea-maid's music." HH Again : — " Sit, Jessica ; look how the floor of heaven Is thick inlaid with patines of bright... | |
 | Benjamin Hall Kennedy - 1856 - 384 pagina’s
...this grove, Till I torment thee for this injury. — My gentle Puck, come hither. Thou remember'st Since once I sat upon a promontory, And heard a mermaid,...shot madly from their spheres To hear the sea-maid's musick. P. I remember. O. That very time I saw (but thou could'st not), Flying between the cold moon... | |
 | William Edmondstoune Aytoun - 1856 - 292 pagina’s
...Dream " were meant to apply to Mary : — " My geiitle Puck, come hither : Thou remember'st Since ouce I sat upon a promontory, And heard a mermaid, on a...from their spheres, To hear the sea-maid's music." This theory of Warburton's led to an animated controversy, his opponents declaring that they were unable... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1856 - 384 pagina’s
...remember'st Since once I sat upon a promontory, And beard a mermaid, on a dolphin's back, Utlering such dulcet and harmonious breath, That the rude sea...remember. Obe. That very time I saw, (but thou couldst nut,) Flying between the cold moon and the earth, Cupid all arm'd ; a certain aim he took At a fair... | |
| |
