...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,...

...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...

...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...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 the earth...

...marvelous play, the " Midsummer Night's Dream," is one of the most extravagant things in literature : " Thou rememberest Since once I sat upon a promontory,...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...

...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,...

...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...

...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....

...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...certain stars shot madly from their spheres To hear the sea-maid 's music. Epilogue A view from above a Fresnel lens on display at Ponce de Leon Inlet Lighthouse...