 | Lowestoft (England) - 1851 - 102 pàgines
...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... | |
 | Samuel Schoenbaum - 1987 - 420 pàgines
...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 pàgines
...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... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1992 - 132 pàgines
...Thou rememb'rest Since once I sat upon a promontory, And heard a mermaid, on a dolphin's back, 150 Uttering such dulcet and harmonious breath That the...shot madly from their spheres To hear the sea-maid's music.37 I remember. That very time I saw (but thou couldst not), Flying between the cold moon and... | |
 | Peter Thomson - 1999 - 244 pàgines
...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 pàgines
...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...madly from their 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... | |
 | 1995 - 108 pàgines
...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 on...madly from their 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... | |
 | Nancy B. Watson - 1996 - 274 pàgines
...(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... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1996 - 1290 pàgines
...grove Till I torment thee for this injury. — My gentle I*uck, come hither. Thou remember'st Since iege. SIR THOMAS ERPIKGHAM. Shall I attend your Grace?...other company. SIR THOMAS ERPINGHAM. The Lord in h I remember. OBERON. That very time I saw — but thou couldst not — Flying between the cold moon... | |
 | Roberta J. M. Olson, Jay M. Pasachoff - 1999 - 412 pàgines
...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. 
