 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 Dramatic Works and Poems - Seite 167von William Shakespeare - 1847Vollansicht - Über dieses Buch
 | Phineas Taylor Barnum - 2005 - 280 Seiten
...writers, there seems testimony enough to establish it -Chambers. History of Mermaids. Thou remberest Since once I sat upon a promontory, And heard a Mermaid...breath, That the rude sea grew civil at her song. -Shakespeare. "j^^Taturalists for the most part not only discredit the existence of mer-people, but... | |
 | Peter Edgerly Firchow, Hermann Josef Real - 2005 - 412 Seiten
...IV, vii, 176 ("And mermaid-like awhile they bore her up"); Midsummer-Night's Dream, II, i, 149—52 ("Since once I sat upon a promontory, / And heard...breath / That the rude sea grew civil at her song"); Antony and Cleopatra, II, ii, 216-17 ("Her gentlewomen, like the Nereides, / So many mermaids, tended... | |
 | Alfred Noyes - 2006 - 412 Seiten
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 | Icon Reference - 2006 - 116 Seiten
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 | Penny McCarthy - 2006 - 290 Seiten
...seaventh sittyng thus singing (az I say) withoout.13 Here is Shakespeare's version. Oberon says to Puck My gentle Puck, come hither. Thou remember'st Since...shot madly from their spheres To hear the sea-maid's music. (II. 1.1 48-54) It might be objected that a mermaid on a dolphin's back cannot be a poetic reminiscence... | |
 | Penny McCarthy - 2006 - 302 Seiten
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 | Linda Austern, Inna Naroditskaya - 2006 - 440 Seiten
...words of a global favorite of today, an English playwright from the age of colonial expansion: . . . once I sat upon a promontory And heard a mermaid on...shot madly from their spheres To hear the sea-maid's music.5 The siren's acoustic power and its capacity to affect the external world span centuries and... | |
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