 | William Shakespeare - 1851 - 408 pages
...grew civil at her song; And certain stars shot madly from their spheres, To hear the sea-maid's music. That very time I saw, (but thou could'st not,) Flying...aim he took At a fair vestal, throned by the west; And loos'd his love-shaft smartly from his bow, As it should pierce a hundred thousand hearts; But... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1851 - 600 pages
...hither: Thou remember'st13 Since once I sat upon a promontory, And heard a mermaid, on a dolphin's back, Uttering such dulcet and harmonious breath, That the...shot madly from their spheres, To hear the sea-maid's music. PUCK. I remember. OBE. That very time I saw, (but thou couldst not,) Flying between the cold... | |
 | Agnes Strickland - 1851 - 820 pages
...their own sovereign: 2 — " Once I sat upon a promontory, And heard a mermaid on a dolphin's back Uttering such dulcet and harmonious breath, That the...shot madly from their spheres To hear the sea-maid's musie." The rebel earls entered Durham in warlike array, November 14th; Richard Norton, of Norton Conyers,... | |
 | Lowestoft (England) - 1851 - 102 pages
...musician, having assuredly never " Sat upon a promontory, And heard a mermaid, on a dolphin's back, Uttering such dulcet and harmonious breath, That the...shot madly 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... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1851 - 772 pages
...hither. 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...shot madly from their spheres, To hear the sea-maid's music. Puck. I remember. Obe. That very time I saw, (but thou could'st not,) Flying between the cold... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1851 - 688 pages
...: Thou remember'stI3 Since once I sat upon a promontory, And heard a mermaid, on a dolphin's back, Uttering such dulcet and harmonious breath, That the...shot madly from their spheres, To hear the sea-maid's music. PUCK. I remember. ORE. That very time I saw, (but thou couldst not,) Flying between the cold... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1851 - 606 pages
...: Thou remember 'st u Since once I sat upon a promontory, And heard a mermaid, on a dolphin's back, Uttering such dulcet and harmonious breath, That the...shot madly from their spheres, To hear the sea-maid's music. PUCK. I remember. OBE. That very time I saw, (but thou couldst not,) Flying between the cold... | |
 | 398 pages
...their dwelling 'The sea, the sea, the open sea." Shakspeare tells us of 'A mermaid on a dolphin's back, Uttering such dulcet and harmonious breath, That the...shot madly 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,... | |
 | William Shakespeare, William Hazlitt - 1852 - 566 pages
...spheres, To hear the sea-maid's music. * Autumn producing flowers unseasonably. T Produce. 1 PagePuck. I remember. Obe. That very time I saw (but thou couldst...aim he took At a fair vestal, throned by the west ; And loos'd his love-shaft smartly from his bow, As it should pierce a hundred thousand hearts : But... | |
 | Joseph Allen Bryant - Literary Criticism - 1986 - 300 pages
...give Puck a pretty explanation of how the plant came to have its peculiar character and potency: ... I saw (but thou couldst not), Flying between the cold...aim he took At a fair vestal throned by [the] west, And loos'd his love-shaft smartly from his bow. As it should pierce a hundred thousand hearts; But... | |
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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 musick. 
