 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.  The Works of Shakespeare: in Eight Volumes - Page 95by William Shakespeare - 1767Full view - About this book
 | William Shakespeare - 1807 - 472 pages
...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, on a dolphin's back, Uttering such dulcet and harmonious breath, That the rude sea grew civil at her song ; And certain stars shot... | |
 | William Henry Ireland - 1808 - 256 pages
...this unfortunate princess, in his Midsummer's Night Dream, says -Thou remembers't 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... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1810 - 418 pages
...fatyence." MS.Harl. 203. TYRWH1TT. — 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 dulcet and harmonious breath, That the rude sea grew civil at her song ; And certain stars shot... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1811 - 436 pages
...I torment thec for 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 dulcet and harmonious breath, That the rude sea grew civil at her song ; And certain stars shot... | |
 | William Shakespeare, Alexander Chalmers - 1811 - 520 pages
...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, on a dolphin's back, Uttering such dulcet and harmonious breath, That the rude sea grew civil at her song ; And certain "stars shot... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1810 - 418 pages
...patyence." MS.Harl. 293. TYKWHITT. — 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 dulcet and harmonious breath, That the rude sea grew civil at her song ; And certain stars shot... | |
 | Leigh Hunt - English poetry - 1814 - 188 pages
...himself in his chair : — OBERON. My gentle Puck, come hither: — thou rememberest, 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... | |
 | William Shakespeare - English drama (Comedy) - 1872 - 480 pages
...be his paramour ? " 1 bid., v. 3. " 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 dulcet and harmonious breath, That the rude sea grew civil at her song ; And certain stars shot... | |
 | Elegant extracts - 1816 - 490 pages
...By their increase now knows not which is which. Love in Idleness. Thou reiuembcr'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 rude sea grew civil at her song; And certain stars shot... | |
 | Lady Morgan (Sydney) - Irish in literature - 1818 - 312 pages
...grasp. " Rememberest 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 dulcet and harmonious breath, that the rude sea grew civil at her song ?" " Why, then, upon my... | |
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