 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
 | Franklin Johnson - Bible - 1895 - 440 pages
...As it should pierce a hundred thousand hearts ; But 1 might see young Cupid's fiery shaft Quenched in the chaste beams of the wat'ry moon; And the imperial vot'ress passed on, In maiden meditation, fancy-free. Yet marked I where the bolt of Cupid fell ; It fell upon a little western flower — Before... | |
 | Georg Brandes - 1898 - 422 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, And the imperial votaress passed on, In maiden meditation, fancy-free. Yet mark'd I where the bolt of Cupid fell : It... | |
 | Frederick Saunders, Minnie K. Davis - American poetry - 1899 - 768 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...imperial vot'ress passed on, In maiden meditation, fancy-free. Yet wark'd I where the bolt of Cupid fell: pon a little western flower, — milk-white... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1901 - 106 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,...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... | |
 | Edwin Reed - 1902 - 462 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,...imperial vot'ress passed on, In maiden meditation fancy-free." A Midsummer-Night's Dream, ii. 1 (1600). Both authors assert that Queen Elizabeth was... | |
 | Sidney Lanier - English poetry - 1902 - 444 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, And the imperial votaress passed on, In maiden meditation, fancy-free. Yet mark'd I where the bolt of Cupid fell : It... | |
 | Jerome Alfred Hart - Spain - 1903 - 304 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 ; And the imperial vot'ress pass'd on, In maiden meditation, fancy-free." No one believes that Shakespeare believed all those pretty... | |
 | Helen Rose Anne Milman Crofton - Country life - 1903 - 420 pages
...thousand hearts : But I might see young Cupid's fiery shaft Quenched in the chaste beams of the watery Moon, And the imperial -votress passed on, In maiden meditation fancy free. Tet marked I where the bolt of Cupid fell, It fell upon a little western flower ; Before milk 'white,... | |
 | Mildred Lewis Rutherford - English literature - 1906 - 806 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...imperial vot'ress passed on, In maiden meditation, fancy-free. Yet mark'd I where the bolt of Cupid fell ! It (ell upon a little western flower,— Before,... | |
 | Edwin Reed - Stratford-upon-Avon (England) - 1907 - 84 pages
...might see young Cupid's your Majesty is free." — Devict fiery shaft of the Indian Prince (1595). Quench'd in the chaste beams of the wat'ry moon, And...imperial vot'ress passed on, In maiden meditation fancyfree." — A Midsummer Night's Dream, ii. i (1600). Both authors, it will be seen, assert that... | |
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