 | John Timbs - 1832 - 442 pages
...the wat'ry moon; And the imperial vot'ress passed on, In maiden meditation, fancv free. Yet mark'd I where the bolt of Cupid fell ; It fell upon a little...love-in-idleness. Fetch me that flower ; the herb [ show'd thee once ; The juice of it on sleeping eyelids laid, Will make or man or woman madly dote... | |
 | 1832 - 206 pages
...like the sweet south That breathes upon a bank of Violets, Stealing and giving odour. TIFSLTTH NICBT. YET marked I where the bolt of Cupid fell, It fell...love's wound, And maidens call it Love-in-idleness. HIDSUHHER NIOHT'S DREAM. THEY are as gentle As zephyrs, blowing below the Violet, Not wagging his sweet... | |
 | Mary Russell Mitford - Country life - 1832 - 380 pages
...— if right I guess, His wounded love in idleness '. i Every body knows the lines : — " Yet mark'd I where the bolt of Cupid fell ; It fell upon a little...now purple with love's wound, And maidens call it love in idleness." Midsummer Night's Dream. Mr. Mortimer's verses were written before the cultivation... | |
 | Flora (goddess.) - 1835 - 314 pages
...young Cupid's fiery shaft Quencht in the chaste beams of the watery moon ; And the imperial votaress passed on, In maiden meditation, fancy-free * : Yet...love's wound ; And maidens call it Love-in-idleness. MIDSUMMER NIGHT's DREAM. * This was intended by Shakspcare as a compliment to our maiden queen, Elizabeth.... | |
 | Frederic Shoberl - Flower language - 1835 - 406 pages
...the wat'ry moon : And the 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...now purple with love's wound. And maidens call it Love in Idleness. The juice of it, on sleeping eyelids laid, Will make or man or woman madly doat Upon... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1836 - 554 pages
...beams of the watery moon ; And the imperial vot'ress passed on, In maiden meditation, fancy-free.9 Yet marked I where the bolt of Cupid fell. It fell...now purple with love's wound, And maidens call it love-in-idleness.3 Fetch me that flower ; the herb I showed thee once ; The juice of it, on sleeping... | |
 | Theocritus - English poetry - 1836 - 450 pages
...the wat'ry moon ; And the 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...love's wound, And maidens call it, love-in-idleness." Midsummer Night's Dream. NOTES ON BION. " Sleep no more In purple, Cypris ! but in watchet weed, All-wretched... | |
 | John Jacob - Botany - 1836 - 374 pages
...Shakspeare, in his Midsummer Night's Dream, has invested with such powerful virtues." " Yet mark'd I where the bolt of Cupid fell ; It fell upon a little...now purple with love's wound, And maidens call it Love in Idleness. Fetch me that flower, the herb I showed thee once ; The juice of it, on sleeping... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1838 - 1130 pages
...the wat'ry moon ; And the imperial vot'ress passed on, In maiden meditation, fancy-free. Yet mark'd 1 P 1 shew'd thee once ; The juice of it on sleeping eye-lids laid, Will make or man or woman madly dote... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1838 - 484 pages
...the watery moon; And the imperial vot'ress passed on, In maiden meditation, fancy-free.d Yet mark'd I where the bolt of Cupid fell: It fell upon a little...love's wound, And maidens call it love-in-idleness. 7 — ii. 2. 142 Be kind and courteous to this gentleman ; Hop in his walks, and gambol in his eyes;... | |
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I where the bolt of Cupid fell : It fell upon a little western flower, — Before, milk-white; now, purple with love's wound ; And maidens call it love-in-idleness. 
