| Penny McCarthy - 2006 - 290 páginas
...I say) withoout.13 Here is Shakespeare's version. Oberon says to Puck My gentle Puck, come hither. Thou remember'st Since once I sat upon a promontory,...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... | |
| Linda Austern, Inna Naroditskaya - 2006 - 440 páginas
...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...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 cultures,... | |
| Linda Austern, Inna Naroditskaya - 2006 - 440 páginas
...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... | |
| William Shakespeare - 2006 - 226 páginas
...for this injury. My gentle Puck, come hither. Thou rememberest Since once I sat upon a promontory 150 And heard a mermaid on a dolphin's back Uttering such...madly 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... | |
| 532 páginas
...Midsummer Night's Dream," is one of the most extravagant things in literature : " Thou rememberest Since once I sat upon a promontory, And heard a mermaid...from their spheres To hear the sea-maid's music." This is so marvelously told that it almost seems probable. So the description of Mark Antony : " For... | |
| Peter Jeans - 2007 - 382 páginas
...Horatio (see, for example, chapter 17, Sea Monsters, for a discussion of this perennial topic). MERMAIDS "Since once I sat upon a promontory, And heard a mermaid...madly from their spheres To hear the sea-maid's music. " WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE, A MIDSUMMER NIGHT'S DREAM Thus speaks Oberon, Shakespeare's king of the fairies,... | |
| Russell A. Fraser - 568 páginas
...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 - 2007 - 349 páginas
...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...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 Dream.... | |
| Elinor De Wire - 2007 - 354 páginas
...the woodpile the boy told his father, "King Neptune let me off easier 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 the rude sea grew civil at her song,... | |
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