 | Russell A. Fraser - 568 pages
...and the mermaid, saluting the "fair vestal" Elizabeth, gave Shakespeare's fairy king some good lines: Once I sat upon a promontory And heard a mermaid,...certain stars shot madly from their spheres To hear the sea maid's music. Arion had a speech, addressed to the Queen, but making too free of the silver wine... | |
 | Patricia Ferguson - Fiction - 2007 - 349 pages
...gropingly, Once I sat upon a promontory, he remembered suddenly, and heard a mermaid on a dolphins back uttering such dulcet and harmonious breath that...shot madly from their spheres, to hear the sea-maid's music. 'Are you all right, Will?' He smiled at her. 'In rep in Birmingham there, for a second. The... | |
 | Elinor De Wire - History - 2007 - 354 pages
...than this." Thou rememb 'rest Since once I sat upon a promontory And heard a mermaid, on a dolphin s back, Uttering such dulcet and harmonious breath That...certain stars shot madly from their spheres To hear the sea-maid 's music. Epilogue A view from above a Fresnel lens on display at Ponce de Leon Inlet Lighthouse... | |
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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. 
