 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 loos'd his love-shaft smartly from his bow, As it should pierce a hundred thousand hearts : But I might see young Cupid's fiery...  Kenilworth - Page 241by Walter Scott - 1836Full view - About this book
 | William Shakespeare, Alexander Chalmers - Azerbaijan - 1847 - 474 pages
...As it should pierce a hundred thousand hearts : But I might see young Cupid's fiery shaft Quench 'd in the chaste beams of 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 western flower, —... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1847 - 726 pages
...smartly from his bow, As it should pierce a hundred thousand hearts : But I might see young Cupid's fiery votaress passed on, In maiden meditation, fancy-free. Yet mark'd I where the bolt of Cupid fell : It... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1847 - 760 pages
...smartly from his bow, As it should pierce a hundred thousand hearts : But I might see young Cupid's fiery votaress passed on, In maiden meditation, fancy-free. Yet mark'd I where the bolt of Cupid fell : It... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1848 - 498 pages
...As it should pierce a hundred thousand hearts : But I might see young Cupid's fiery shaft liuench'd in the chaste beams of the wat'ry moon ; And the imperial vot'ress passed on, (UA game played by boys. (2) Autumn producing flowera unseasonably. In maiden meditation, fancy-free.*... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1849 - 952 pages
...smartly from his how, As it should pierce a hundred thousand hearts : But I might see young Cupid's fiery e shape x5 / fancy-free. Yet mark'd I where the bolt of Cupid fell : It fell upon a little western flower, — Before,... | |
 | 1850 - 524 pages
...smartly from his bow, As it should pierce a hundred thousand hearts. But I might see young Cupid's fiery shaft Quench'd in the chaste beams of the wat'ry moon...votress passed on, In maiden meditation fancy free." We owe to Elizabeth's suggestion the inimitable comedy of Falstaff in love; and in another play, the... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1851 - 408 pages
...smartly from his bow, As it should pierce a hundred thousand hearts; But I might see young Cupid's fiery shaft Quench'd in the chaste beams of the wat'ry moon;...the imperial votress passed on, In maiden meditation fancy-free. § * A game played by boys. t Autumn producing flowers unseasonably. • Yet mark'd I where... | |
 | John Celivergos Zachos - Elocution - 1851 - 570 pages
...As it should pierce a hundred thousand hearts : But I might see young Cupid's fiery shaft Quenched in the chaste beams of the wat'ry moon: And the imperial...votress passed on In maiden meditation, fancy free ; Yet marked 1 where the bolt of Cupid fell : It fell upon a little western flower, Before milk-white,... | |
 | George Godfrey Cunningham - Great Britain - 1853 - 538 pages
...smartly from his bow, As it should pierce a hundred thousand hearts : But I might see young Cupid's fiery shaft Quench'd in the chaste beams of the wat'ry moon...vot'ress passed on, In maiden meditation, fancy free." With such patronage, and such skill to avail himself of it, it is not matter of surprise that our poet,... | |
 | Edwin Owen Jones - 1853 - 258 pages
...smartly from his bow, As it should pierce a hundred thousand hearts ; But I might see young Cupid's fiery shaft Quench'd in the chaste beams of the wat'ry moon...vot'ress passed on, | In maiden meditation, fancy free."t A similar idea is more happily expressed by the elder of the two brothers in Comus, in a reference... | |
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