 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...  Waverly Novels: Kenilworth. The pirateby Walter Scott - 1842Snippet view - About this book
 | William Hone - Almanacs, English - 1832 - 852 pages
...flowres, the grasse. G. Peek, 1584. -I saw, Flying between the cold moon and the earth, Cupid nil armed : a certain aim he took, At a fair vestal, throned by the weet, And loosed his lovcshaft smartly from his bow, As it should pierce a hundred thousand hearts... | |
 | William Shakespeare - Drama - 1994 - 692 pages
...And certain stars shot madly from their spheres To hear the sea-maid's music? PUCK I remember. OBERON That very time I saw - 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 his loveshaft smartly... | |
 | Courtship - 1995 - 108 pages
...certain stars shot madly from their spheres To hear the sea-maid's music? PUCK. I remember. OBERON. That very time I saw, 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 his love-shaft smartly... | |
 | Mary Beth Rose - Drama - 1995 - 208 pages
...recent discussion of this episode is especially worth noting. 18. 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 it should pierce a hundred thousand hearts; But I might... | |
 | David L. Smith, Richard Strier, David Bevington - History - 2003 - 312 pages
...contemporary name for the pansy). Oberon tells Puck how, seated on a promontary, he saw Cupid all armed: a certain aim he took At a fair vestal, throned by the west, Quotations from the play are taken from the Arden edition, edited by Harold F. Brooks (1979), and abbreviated... | |
 | Valerie Traub, M. Lindsay Kaplan, Dympna Callaghan - Literary Criticism - 1996 - 324 pages
...to shoot and seduce the "fair vestal." "That very time I saw (but thou couldst not)," Oberon says: Flying between the cold moon and the earth Cupid all...aim he took At a fair vestal throned by the west And loos'd his love-shaft smartly from his bow, As it should pieree a hundred thousand hearts. (11.i.155-60)... | |
 | Louis Montrose - Drama - 1996 - 246 pages
...forfeit all of his royal offices. This loss of power, prestige, and revenue precipitated his revolt. Flying between the cold moon and the earth, Cupid...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... | |
 | William Shakespeare - Drama - 1996 - 1290 pages
...And certain stars shot madly from their spheres, To hear the sea-maid's music. I remember. OBERON. le Harry! [Exeunt arm 41: a certain aim he took At a fair vestal throned by the west, And loosed lois love-shaft smartly... | |
 | Dorothea Kehler - Comedy - 1998 - 520 pages
...certain stars shot madly from their spheres, To hear the sea-maids's music? Robin. I remember. Oberon. That very time I saw, but thou couldst not, Flying...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... | |
 | 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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