 | Lowestoft (England) - 1851 - 102 Seiten
...although the Lowestoft fisherman does not by any means excel as a musician, having assuredly never " Sat upon a promontory, And heard a mermaid, on a dolphin's...from their spheres, To hear the sea-maid's music"— 15 still, he probably stands unsurpassed as a daring and intrepid mariner, ready at all times to peril... | |
 | 398 Seiten
...Radiaria, on the contrary, have as their dwelling 'The sea, the sea, the open sea." Shakspeare tells us of 'A mermaid on a dolphin's back, Uttering such dulcet...from their spheres, To hear the Sea-maid's music." I will not venture to affirm that these stars were changed into Sea-jellies and Star-fishes, and that... | |
 | Samuel Schoenbaum - 1987 - 420 Seiten
...witnessed the spectacle that Julv 18th, he found it unforgettable. 'Thou rememb'rest', Oberon reminds Puck, Since once I sat upon a promontory, And heard a mermaid...madly from their spheres To hear the sea-maid's music. And the Captain in Twelfth Night savs of Viola's brother, 'like Arion on the dolphin's back, / I saw... | |
 | David Richman - 1990 - 212 Seiten
...her dotage. Like his consort, he employs striking rhythmic and figurative devices: Thou rememb'rest Since once I sat upon a promontory, And heard a mermaid...madly from their spheres To hear the sea-maid's music. (2.1.148-54) Obcron invests the herb with the power of the music he is describing. The playwright diverts... | |
 | Peter Thomson - 1999 - 244 Seiten
...impressionistically recalled by Oberon in A Midsummer Night's Dream: Thou remember'st Since once 1 sat upon a promontory, And heard a mermaid on a dolphin's...madly from their spheres To hear the sea-maid's music. (11.i.148-54) Open-air festivities, many of them directly linked to the Christian calendar, punctuated... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1994 - 692 Seiten
...hither. Thou rememberest Since once I sat upon a promontory And heard a mermaid on a dolphin's back i to Uttering such dulcet and harmonious breath That the...spheres To hear the sea-maid's music? PUCK I remember. OBERON That very time I saw - but thou couldst not Flying between the cold moon and the earth Cupid... | |
 | 1995 - 108 Seiten
...from this grove Till I torment thee for this injury. My gentle Puck, come hither. Thou rememb'rest Since once I sat upon a promontory And heard a mermaid...spheres To hear the sea-maid's music? PUCK. I remember. OBERON. That very time I saw, but thou couldst not, Flying between the cold moon and the earth, Cupid... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1996 - 1290 Seiten
...go thy way: thou shall not from this grove Till I torment thee for this injury. — My gentle I*uck, bear I remember. OBERON. That very time I saw — but thou couldst not — Flying between the cold moon... | |
 | Nancy B. Watson - 1996 - 274 Seiten
...(Ondine) sits in her grotto upon a rock, lazily combing her hair and admiring her image in a mirror. [O]nce I sat upon a promontory, And heard a mermaid...from their spheres, To hear the sea-maid's music. . . 17 The passing male who spies this vision is doomed, for she will lure him to her side, capture... | |
 | Roberta J. M. Olson, Jay M. Pasachoff - 1999 - 412 Seiten
...and Arthur Rackham later illustrated with similar images [Figs. 150, 151]. Shakespeare's text reads: Since once I sat upon a promontory, And heard a mermaid...from their spheres. To hear the sea-maid's music. That very time I saw - but thou couldst not Flying between the cold moon and the earth, Cupid all armed;... | |
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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. 
