 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 Church of England quarterly review - Page 3021850Full view - About this book
 | Theocritus (of Syracuse) - 1836 - 436 pages
...dolphin's hack, Uttering such dialect and harmonious breath, That the rude sea grew civil at her song ; Aud certain stars shot, madly from their spheres, To hear the sea-maid's music. PUCK. " I remember. 1 That very time I saw (but thou couldst not), Flying between the cold moon and... | |
 | Edward Duke - Architecture, Domestic - 1837 - 686 pages
...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...from their spheres To hear the sea-maid's music.'' * The Mermaid pourtrayed in the present engraving, beautiful in person, yet, alas ! desinens in piscem,... | |
 | Edward Duke - Architecture, Domestic - 1837 - 686 pages
...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...from their spheres To hear the sea-maid's music." * The Mermaid pourtrayed in the present engraving, beautiful in person, yet, alas ! desinens in piscem,... | |
 | Mrs. Jameson (Anna) - Women - 1837 - 394 pages
...Cynthia, the ladye of the sea," — she is the " Fair Vestal throned in the West," of Shakspeare — That very time I saw, (but thou couldst not,) Flying between the cold moon and the earth, Cupid all anti'd : a certain aim he took At a fair Vestal, throned by the West, And loosed his love-shaft smartly... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1838 - 484 pages
...mermaid, on a dolphin's back, Uttering such dulcet and harmonious breath, * Atoms. b A place in court. That the rude sea grew civil at her song; And certain...— That very time I saw (but thou could'st not), Plying between the cold moon and the earth, Cupid all arm'd: a certain aim he took At a fair vestal,... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1838 - 1130 pages
...a promontory, And hea:*da mermaid, on a dolphin's back, Uttering such dulcet and harmonious breath, ace 1 1 1 Puck. I remember. Obe. That very time I saw, (but thou could'st not,) Flying between the cold moon... | |
 | Charles Armitage Brown - Autobiography in literature - 1838 - 326 pages
...occasion, ever entered the mind of man. I mean that beautiful passage in Midsummer Night's Dream : — " That very time I saw (but thou could'st not) Flying between the cold moon and the earth, Cupid all arm'd : a certain aim he took * The heir-apparent. At a fair Vestal, throned by the west, And loosed... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1838 - 790 pages
...bark. Uttering such dulcet and harmonious breath. That tiie rude sea grew civil at her son« : Aud ny time 'fore noon. Isab. Save your hononr ! [Exeunt laido, Isabella, and Puck. I remember. Obe. That very time I saw, (but thou couU'st not.' Flying between the cold moon and... | |
 | William Shakespeare, Thomas Price - 1839 - 480 pages
...breath, * Atoms. f A place in court t ic Fairy-locks, lock» of Inn clotted and tangled in the night. That the rude sea grew civil at her song ; And certain...Flying between the cold moon and the earth, Cupid all arm'd : a certain aim he took At a fair vestal throned by the west ; And loosed his love-shaft smartly... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1839 - 550 pages
...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...from their spheres, To hear the sea-maid's music. Puck. I remember. Obe. That very time I saw, (but thou could'st not,) Flying between the cold moon... | |
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