 | Alexander Leggatt - 2002 - 260 páginas
...festivities organized for Elizabeth at Elvetham in 1591: OBERON My gentle Puck, come hither. Thou remembr'est Since once I sat upon a promontory, And heard a mermaid...from their spheres, To hear the sea-maid's music. PUCK I remember. OBERON That very time I saw, but thou couldst not, Flying between the cold moon and... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1989 - 1286 páginas
...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...but my going, notliing can redeem it. LADY PERCY. O PUCK. I remember. OBERON. That very time I saw — but thou couldst not — Flying between the cold... | |
 | Allen Morris Jones - 2002 - 340 páginas
...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 - 2003 - 228 páginas
...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."... | |
 | Naomi J. Miller - 2003 - 348 páginas
...study of A Midsummer Night 's Dream, my class was introduced to Oberon's speech in Act 2, Scene 1: Since once I sat upon a promontory. And heard a mermaid...at her song And certain stars shot madly from their spheres.1 The children's assignment was to rewrite this speech in their own words, with the proviso... | |
 | William Shakespeare, Arthur Rackham - 2003 - 180 páginas
...from this grove Till I torment thee for this injury. My gentle Puck, come hither. Thou rememberest Since once I sat upon a promontory, And heard a mermaid...harmonious breath That the rude sea grew civil at her songAod certain stars shot madly from their spheres, To hear the sea-maid's music. PUCK. I remember.... | |
 | Jan H. Blits - 2003 - 228 páginas
...sweet breath; and I do not doubt but to bear them say, it is a sweet comedy. Oberon described hearing a mermaid on a dolphin's back "[u]ttering such dulcet and harmonious breath" that the rough sea grew civil and stars shot madly from their spheres (2.1.151). Bottom literalizes and materializes... | |
 | Sir Walter Scott - 2003 - 486 páginas
...'bound', or 'dance'. 190.27-28 shoot madly from his sphere see A Midsummer Night's Dream, 2.1.1 53-54: 'And certain stars shot madly from their spheres/ To hear the sea-maid's music'. 191.4-5 protempore Lat1n for the time. 191.19 keep down a bass keep their end up against bass instruments... | |
 | 2002 - 566 páginas
...refer with safety to Mary and those who with her connivance plunged to treason.'51 the memory of how 'certain stars shot madly from their spheres / To hear the sea-maid's music' [I53-4] does seem to echo the lament for the Catholic traitor as 'a bright star' shot from the sky... | |
 | Ebenezer Cobham Brewer - 2004 - 592 páginas
...that shot from their spheres means " the princes who sprang from their allegiance to Queen Elizabeth." Thou remember'st Since once I sat upon a promontory,...from their spheres, To hear the sea-maid's music. Act ii. sc. 1 (1592). These " stars " were the earl of Northumberland, the earl of Westmoreland, and... | |
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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. 
