 | William Shakespeare - Drama - 1989 - 1286 pages
...fcr this injury. — My gentle Puck, come hither. Thou rememSince once I sat upon a promontory, *nd ND. I have given over, I will speak no more: Do what...going, notliing can redeem it. LADY PERCY. O, yet, I remember. OBERON. That very time I saw — but thou couldst not — Flying between the cold moon... | |
 | Allen Morris Jones - Fiction - 2002 - 340 pages
...melancholic, her father had been a fine star watcher. She had once seen him quote Shakespeare up to them: "And certain stars shot madly from their spheres, To hear the sea-maid's music." If she remembers it right, her mother had been disdainful. "Fine lessons you're teaching our daughter,"... | |
 | John Kretschmer - Biography & Autobiography - 2003 - 228 pages
...1-57409-164-6 For Lesa, for understanding why I had to write and for Joe, who will never sail the boat he built Once I sat upon a promontory, And heard a mermaid...from their spheres, To hear the sea-maid's music. WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE, A Midsummer Night's Dream "Have you ever seen her?" he asked. "Often and often."... | |
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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. 
