 | Stephen Greenblatt - 2004 - 460 páginas
...earlier, to charm the queen. "Thou rememb'rest," the Fairy king Oberon asks his principal assistant, Puck, Since once I sat upon a promontory And heard a mermaid...madly from their spheres To hear the sea-maid's music? (2.1.148-54) It is worth reading the last three lines aloud for oneself to see how perfectly they serve... | |
 | Chad Arment - 2004 - 404 páginas
...these strange creatures, thus distinguished by the great dramatist with not less fancy than fable — I heard a Mermaid on a dolphin's back — Uttering such...breath, That the rude sea grew civil at her song. — We shall transcribe the account of two incidents which were observed in the Southern Hemisphere.... | |
 | Rebecca Rabenold-Finsel - 2004 - 136 páginas
...of parks, to those m attendance." (Postcard courtesy of Clarence Getz.) VICTORIAN FOUNTAIN, c. I9I7. "Once I sat upon a promontory, and heard a mermaid on a dolphm's back. And certain stars shot madly from their spheres, to hear the sea-maid's music." (Wilham... | |
 | Ken Ludwig - 2005 - 124 páginas
...and listens. OBERON and PUCK don 't see him. OBERON speaks with urgency.) OBERON. Thou rememb'rest. Since once I sat upon a promontory And heard a mermaid...madly from their spheres To hear the sea-maid's music? PUCK. I remember. OBERON. That very time I saw, but though couldst not, Flying between the cold moon... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 2005 - 68 páginas
...not from this grove Till Itormenttheeforthis injury. My gentle Puck, come hither. Thou rememberest Since once I sat upon a promontory And heard a mermaid...certain stars shot madly from their spheres To hear the sea maid's music? Alright, go then. But you're not leaving this wood till I've punished you for your... | |
 | R. Larry Todd - 2003 - 748 páginas
...5.12a, bl, and perhaps alluding to Act 2, Scene 1 of Shakespeare's play, where Oberon recalls having "heard a mermaid, on a dolphin's back, / Uttering...stars shot madly from their spheres, / To hear the sea maid's music." Then the overture concludes with the timeless wind chords, and we are released from... | |
 | Peter Edgerly Firchow, Hermann Josef Real - 2005 - 412 páginas
...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... | |
 | Phineas Taylor Barnum - 2005 - 280 páginas
...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... | |
 | Martial Rose - 1994 - 71 páginas
...seen in the company of dolphins (21 ) Oberon, too, recalls this association when he tells Puck that he 'heard a mermaid on a dolphin's back/ Uttering such...and harmonious breath/ That the rude sea grew civil with her song'. (A Midsummer .Might's Dream. II . i. 150). In this carving the lion is not a symbol... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 2005 - 900 páginas
...from this grove, Till I torment thee for this injury. My gentle Puck, come hither. Thou rememb'rest Since once I sat upon a promontory, And heard a mermaid, on a dolphin's back, 1 50 Uttering such dulcet and harmonious breath That the rude sea grew civil at her song, And certain... | |
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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. 
