 | Leigh Hunt - English poetry - 1845 - 278 pages
...moon and the earth, Cupid all arm'd: a certain aim he took At a fair vestal, throned by the west ;* And loos'd his love-shaft smartly from his bow, As...should pierce a hundred thousand hearts: But I might seen young Cupid's fiery shaft Quench''d in the chaste beams of the wafry moon : And the imperial votaress... | |
 | Leigh Hunt - English poetry - 1845 - 280 pages
...moon and the earth, Cupid all arm'd: a certain aim he took At a fair vestal, throned by the west ;* And loos'd his love-shaft smartly from his bow, As...should pierce a hundred thousand hearts : But I might seen young Cupid's fiery shaft Quench'd in the chaste beams of the wafry moon: And the imperial votaress... | |
 | Leigh Hunt - 1845 - 372 pages
...moon and the earth, Cupid all arm'd ; a certain aim he took At a fair vestal, throned by the west ;* And loos'd his love-shaft smartly from his bow, As...should pierce a hundred thousand hearts: But I might seen young Cupid's fiery shaft Quench d in the chaste beams of the wat'ry moon : And the imperial votaress... | |
 | Arthur S. P. Woodhouse, Douglas Bush - Poetry - 1970 - 434 pages
...of Cupid (and 429 : She may pass on with unblench't majesty). [Cf. Shakespeare, Dream 2. i. 161-5: 'young Cupid's fiery shaft / Quench'd in the chaste...imperial vot'ress passed on, / In maiden meditation, fancy-free. / Yet mark'd I where the bolt of Cupid fell.'] 446-7 that snaky-headed Gorgon sheild /... | |
 | Marion Ansel Taylor - Drama - 1973 - 260 pages
...the earth, Cupid all arm'd: a certain aim he took At a fair vestal throned by the west, And loosed his love-shaft smartly from his bow, As it should...hearts; But I might see young Cupid's fiery shaft Quenched in the chaste beams of the watery moon, And the imperial votaress passed on, In maiden meditation,... | |
 | Joseph Allen Bryant - Literary Criticism - 1986 - 300 pages
...moon and the earth, Cupid all arm'd. A certain aim he took At a fair vestal throned by [the] west, And loos'd his love-shaft smartly from his bow. As...imperial vot'ress passed on, In maiden meditation, fancy-free. Yet mark'd I where the bolt of Cupid fell. It fell upon a little western flower, Before... | |
 | Margaret W. Ferguson, Maureen Quilligan, Nancy Vickers - History - 1986 - 464 pages
...cold moon and the earth, Cupid all arm'd; a certain aim he took At a fair vestal, throned by the West, And loos'd his love-shaft smartly from his bow As...Cupid's fiery shaft Quench'd in the chaste beams of the watery moon; And the imperial votress passed on, In maiden meditation, fancy-free. Yet mark'd I where... | |
 | Mary Beth Rose - Drama - 1995 - 208 pages
...A Midsummer Night's Dream 2.1.157-64: A certain aim he took At a fair vestal throned by [the] west, And loos'd his love-shaft smartly from his bow. As...imperial vot'ress passed on, In maiden meditation, fancy-free. 19. In "Dramatic Play in Much Ado about Nothing," Laurie Osborne discusses the contingencies... | |
 | David L. Smith, Richard Strier, David Bevington - History - 2003 - 312 pages
...Elizabeth I and A Midsummer Night's Dream', Notes and Queries, 232, ns, 34. 1 (1987), 205-7. And loosed his love-shaft smartly from his bow As it should pierce...hearts. But I might see young Cupid's fiery shaft Quenched in the chaste beams of the watery moon; And the imperial votaress passed on, In maiden meditation,... | |
 | Louis Montrose - Drama - 1996 - 246 pages
...cold moon and the earth, Cupid all arm'd; a certain aim he took At a fair vestal, throned by the West, And loos'd his love-shaft smartly from his bow As...Cupid's fiery shaft Quench'd in the chaste beams of the watery moon; And the imperial votress passed on, In maiden meditation, fancy-free. Yet mark'd I where... | |
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That very time I saw, (but thou could'st not,) Flying between the cold moon and the earth, Cupid all arm'd : a certain aim he took At a fair vestal, throned by the west ; And... 
