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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. "
Encyclopædia Americana, ed. by F. Lieber assisted by E. Wigglesworth (and T ... - Page 427
by Encyclopaedia Americana - 1831
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Illustrations of the Literary History of the Eighteenth Century ..., Volume 2

John Nichols, John Bowyer Nichols - Authors, English - 1817 - 878 pages
...Sc, 2: Thou remember'st Since once I sat upon a promontory, Ar>d heard a mermaid, on a dolphin's bad; 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. To which these are...
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Florence Macarthy: An Irish Tale, Volume 3

Lady Morgan (Sydney) - Irish in literature - 1818 - 312 pages
...thou," proceeded .Lord Rosbrin, emphatically, "rememberest thou, since once I sat upon a promontory, and heard a mermaid, on a dolphin's back, uttering such...harmonious breath, that the rude sea grew civil at her song ?" " Why, then, upon my credit, I can't say I do,'' returned Crawley, with another impatient effort...
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The Family Shakspeare: In Ten Volumes; in which Nothing is Added ..., Volume 2

William Shakespeare - 1818 - 332 pages
...this injury My gentle Puck, come hither : Thou remember'st Since once I sat upon a promontory, And heard a mermaid, on a dolphin's back, Uttering such...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. Puck. I remember....
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Memoirs of the Court of Queen Elizabeth, Volume 2

Lucy Aikin - Great Britain - 1818 - 544 pages
...in the following ingenious and exquisite passage. . . . . " Once I sat upon a promontory, . •. And heard a Mermaid on a Dolphin's back Uttering such...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. *•****#****** That...
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The Plays of Shakspeare, Volume 1

William Shakespeare - 1819 - 560 pages
...injury. — s My gentle Puck, come hither : Thou remepber'st Since once I sat upov a promontory, And heard a mermaid, on a dolphin's back, Uttering such...harmonious breath, That the rude sea grew civil at her song ; And certain stars shot madly from their sphere!, To hear the sea-maid's musick. 1'nck. I remember....
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The Dramatic Works of William Shakspeare: To which are Added His ...

William Shakespeare - 1821 - 476 pages
...this injury. My gentle Puck, come hither: thou remember'st Since once I sat upon a promontory, And heard a mermaid on a .dolphin's back, Uttering such...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 musie. Puck. I remember....
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The New Monthly Magazine and Literary Journal, Volume 47

English literature - 1836 - 570 pages
...he entertained the same mixed notion of the mermaid and siren. " Once I sat upon a promontory, And heard a mermaid on a dolphin's back Uttering such...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." Midsummer Night's Dream....
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The Etonian

1820 - 696 pages
...and there, indeed, let him name bis name, and tell them plainly be is " GM ELLEN : A SIMPLE TALE. " A mermaid on a dolphin's back, Uttering such dulcet...breath, That the rude sea grew civil at her song." SHAKSPEABK. ABOUT six years ago I was staying at , a watering-place on the Sussex coast. It was one...
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The Plays and Poems of William Shakspeare: With the Corrections ..., Volume 5

William Shakespeare - 1821 - 548 pages
...mermaid, on a dolphin's back, PUCK. I remember. OBE. That very time I saw, (but thou could'st not,) 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.] The first thing...
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The dramatic works of William Shakspeare, from the text of Johnson, Stevens ...

William Shakespeare - 1823 - 984 pages
...this injury. — My gentle Puck, come hither: Thou remember'st Since once I sat upon a promontory, And y of all my counsels, That knew'st the very bottom...my soul, That almost might's! have coin'd me into ; And certain stars snot madly from their spheres, • Petty. f Banks which contain them. t A game...
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