 That very time I saw (but thou couldst not), 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...  Love's labour's lost. Midsummer night's dream - Page 24by William Shakespeare - 1788Full view - About this book
 | Alexander Leggatt - Literary Criticism - 2002 - 260 pages
...thou couldst not, 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...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 (2. 1.148-64) The... | |
 | G. Wilsin Knight - Drama - 2002 - 368 pages
...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...hearts; But I might see young Cupid's fiery shaft, Quench 'd in the chaste beams of the watery moon And the imperial votaress passed on In maiden meditation,... | |
 | Timothy Hilton - Biography & Autobiography - 2002 - 1030 pages
...The Political Economy of Art, then published as A Joy for Ever (And its Price in the Market). '. . . But I might see young Cupid's fiery shaft / Quench'd...chaste beams of the watery moon, / And the imperial votaress passed on, / In maiden meditation, fancy-free.' A Midsummer Night's Dream, II, i. Viljoen... | |
 | William Shakespeare - Drama - 1989 - 1286 pages
...bow, As it should pierce a hundred-thousand hearts: But I might see young Cupid's fiery shaft Quencht ye, to make haste, fancy-free, Yet markt I where the bolt of Cupid fell: It fell upon a little western flower, Before... | |
 | William Shakespeare, Arthur Rackham - Art - 2003 - 180 pages
...the earth, Cupid all arm'd : 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...chaste beams of the watery moon, And the imperial votaress passed on, In maiden meditation, fancy-free. Yet mark'd I where the bolt of Cupid fell : It... | |
 | Jan H. Blits - Drama - 2003 - 228 pages
...chastity, for whom love would have been a curse, not a gift. But . . . young Cupid's fiery shaft [was] Quench'd in the chaste beams of the watery moon; And...votress passed on, In maiden meditation, fancy free. (2.1.161-64) If Cupid's golden arrow could overcome the virgin's vow, the moon's chaste beams were... | |
 | Business & Economics - 2002 - 566 pages
...supposedly invincible Spanish attack on England's Queen: 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. Yet marked I where the bolt of Cupid fell: It fell upon a little western flower. Before milk-white. now... | |
 | Stanley Wells - Drama - 2003 - 434 pages
...singer reciting the exploits of Hercules loosing his arrows, much like 'Cupid, all armed', who 'loosed his love-shaft smartly from his bow / As it should pierce a hundred thousand hearts' (2.1.157-60), is an even more poignant exposition of the singer's and subject's antithetical nature.... | |
 | G. M. Pinciss - Literary Criticism - 2005 - 214 pages
...the earth Cupid, all armed. A certain aim he took At a fair vestal, throned in the west, And loosed his love-shaft smartly from his bow, As it should...hearts. But I 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,... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 2005 - 68 pages
...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'siiery shaft Quenched In the chaste beams of the watery moon; And the imperial vot'ress passed... | |
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