 | Washington Irving - 1855 - 374 pages
...reminded of Oberon's exquisite description of music and moonlight on the ocean : " Thou rememberest Since once I sat upon a promontory. And heard a mermaid...And certain stars shot madly from their spheres. To hear the sea-maid's music." Indeed, I was in the very mood to conjure up all the imaginary beings with... | |
 | Benjamin Hall Kennedy - 1856 - 384 pages
...stay. O. Well, go thy way ; thou shalt not from this grove, Till I torment thee for this injury. — My gentle Puck, come hither. Thou remember'st Since...And certain stars shot madly from their spheres To hear the sea-maid's musick. P. I remember. O. That very time I saw (but thou could'st not), Flying... | |
 | William Edmondstoune Aytoun - Imprisonment - 1856 - 292 pages
...following well-known lines in the " Midsummer Night's Dream ' ' were meant to apply to Mary : — " My gentle Puck, come hither : Thou remember'st Since...And certain stars shot madly from their spheres, To hear the sea-maid's music." This theory of Warburton's led to an animated controversy, his opponents... | |
 | Peter Brook - Drama - 1974 - 300 pages
...Till l torment thee for this injury. My gentle Puck, come hither. ("9 Thou rememberest Since once l sat upon a promontory And heard a mermaid on a dolphin's...And certain stars shot madly from their spheres To hear the sea-maid's music? PUCK l remember. OBERON That very time l saw — but thou couldst not —... | |
 | Marion Ansel Taylor - Drama - 1973 - 260 pages
...following passage in A Midsummer Night's Dream: Obe. .... My gentle Puck, come hither. Thou rememberest Since once I sat upon a promontory, And heard a mermaid...And certain stars shot madly from their spheres, To hear the sea-maid's music. Puck. I remember. Obe. That very time I saw, but thou couldst not, Flying... | |
 | Samuel Schoenbaum - Biography & Autobiography - 1987 - 420 pages
...witnessed the spectacle that Julv 18th, he found it unforgettable. 'Thou rememb'rest', Oberon reminds Puck, Since once I sat upon a promontory, And heard a mermaid...And certain stars shot madly from their spheres To hear the sea-maid's music. And the Captain in Twelfth Night savs of Viola's brother, 'like Arion on... | |
 | David Richman - Comic, The - 1990 - 212 pages
...her dotage. Like his consort, he employs striking rhythmic and figurative devices: Thou rememb'rest Since once I sat upon a promontory, And heard a mermaid...And certain stars shot madly from their spheres To hear the sea-maid's music. (2.1.148-54) Obcron invests the herb with the power of the music he is describing.... | |
 | Peter Thomson - Drama - 1999 - 244 pages
...impressionistically recalled by Oberon in A Midsummer Night's Dream: Thou remember'st Since once 1 sat upon a promontory, And heard a mermaid on a dolphin's...And certain stars shot madly from their spheres To hear the sea-maid's music. (11.i.148-54) Open-air festivities, many of them directly linked to the... | |
 | Courtship - 1995 - 108 pages
...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...And certain stars shot 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... | |
 | William Shakespeare - Drama - 1996 - 1290 pages
...go thy way: thou shall not from this grove Till I torment thee for this injury. — My gentle I*uck, come hither. Thou remember'st Since once I sat upon...And certain stars shot madly from their spheres, To hear the sea-maid's music. I remember. OBERON. 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. 
