 Flying between the cold moon and the earth, Cupid all armed : 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 pierce a hundred thousand hearts : But I might see young Cupid's fiery...  Waverley Novels: Kenilworth. The pirate - Page 143by Walter Scott - 1844Full view - About this book
 | William Shakespeare - 1853 - 420 pages
...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...hearts; But I might see young Cupid's fiery shaft tjuench'd in the chaste beams of the wat'ry moon; And the imperial votress passed on, In maiden meditation... | |
 | Alexander Dyce - Literary forgeries and mystifications - 1853 - 214 pages
...Midsummer-Night's Dream we have the verb, — " loos'd" (on which the commentators give no note) ; " Aud loos'd his love-shaft smartly from his bow, As it should pierce a hundred thousand hearts." Act ii. sc. 2. " Descocher une fleiche. To shoote, loosse, or send an arrow from a bow." Cotgrave's... | |
 | Alexander Dyce - Literary forgeries and mystifications - 1853 - 164 pages
...Midsummer-Night''s Dream we have the verb,—" loos'd" (on which the commentators give no note); " And loos'd his love-shaft smartly from his bow, As it should pierce a hundred thousand hearts." Act ii. sc. 2. " Descocher une jleiche. To shoote, loosse, or send an arrow from a bow." Cotgrave's... | |
 | Marion Ansel Taylor - Drama - 1973 - 260 pages
...parallels to A Midsummer Night's Dream, however. Reminiscent of "Cupid all armed: a certain aim he took / At a fair vestal throned by the west, / And...bow / As it should pierce a hundred thousand hearts; /" was a recitation probably written by John Lyly, delivered to the queen on the occasion of her two... | |
 | William Shakespeare, Cecil Pickett - Drama - 1984 - 36 pages
...injury! My gentle Puck, come hither. [12] You remember That very time, Cupid all armed. A certain aim he took At a fair Vestal, throned by the West, And loosed...bow, As it should pierce a hundred thousand hearts. Yet marked I where the bolt of Cupid fell. PUCK. I remember! I remember! OBERON. It fell upon a little... | |
 | William Shakespeare - Drama - 2014 - 228 pages
...aim he took At a fair vestal throned by the west And loosed his love-shaft smartly from his bow 160 As it should pierce a hundred thousand 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,... | |
 | William Shakespeare - Drama - 1994 - 692 pages
...- but thou couldst not Flying between the cold moon and the earth Cupid all armed. A certain aim he took At a fair vestal throned by the west, And loosed...bow As it should pierce a hundred thousand hearts; 160 But I might see young Cupid's fiery shaft Quenched in the chaste beams of the watery moon, And... | |
 | David L. Smith, Richard Strier, David Bevington - History - 2003 - 312 pages
...'Queen 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...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,... | |
 | Roberta J. M. Olson, Jay M. Pasachoff - Art - 1999 - 412 pages
...but thou couldst not Flying between the cold moon and the earth, Cupid all armed; a certain aim he took At a fair vestal throned by the west. And loosed...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,... | |
 | E. A. J. Honigmann - Dramatists, English - 1998 - 202 pages
...herself, 'in maiden meditation, fancy-free', graced the bridal celebrations. Cupid, we hear, took aim At a fair vestal throned by the west, And loosed his...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,... | |
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