 | James Clifford Turner - Language Arts & Disciplines - 2000 - 164 pages
...to become 'a very vile jingle of esses' they will 'ask some care in the true performing' of themMy gentle Puck, come hither. Thou remember'st Since once...shot madly from their spheres, To hear the sea-maid's music. (A Midsummer Night's Dream, II. i.) How sweet the moonlight sleeps upon this bank! Here will... | |
 | Randall Barron - 2000 - 258 pages
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 | Park Honan - Biography & Autobiography - 1998 - 522 pages
...a mermaid rides on a dolphin, but Oberon reminds Puck, as if to conjure up the Kenilworth pageant: once I sat upon a promontory And heard a mermaid on...harmonious breath That the rude sea grew civil at her song. (11. i. It was never unwise to flatter the Queen, and even in the 1570s she protected the players.... | |
 | Harold Bloom - Characters and characteristics in literature - 2001 - 750 pages
...tomillo silvestre, Donde crecen las prÃmulas y las cabeceantes violetas, 6. Obe. Thou rememb'rest / Since once I sat upon a promontory, / And heard a...stars shot madly from their spheres / To hear the sea maid's nu1sic? / Puck. I remember. / Obe. That very time I saw (but thou couldst not), / Flying... | |
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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. 
