| Leigh Hunt - English poetry - 1814 - 216 pages
...moon, 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...chaste beams of the watery moon ; And the imperial votaress pass'd on, In maiden meditation, fancy free. Yet mark'd I where the bolt of Cupid fell :—... | |
| William Shakespeare - 1821 - 476 pages
...Flying between the cold moon and the earth, Cupid all arin'd : a certain aim he took At a fair vestal, throned by the west; And loosed his love-shaft smartly...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,... | |
| Elizabeth Kent - Botany - 1823 - 498 pages
...betwixt the cold earth and the moon, Cupid all arm'd : — a certain aim he took At a fair vestal, throned by the west, And loosed his love-shaft smartly...hearts : But I might see young Cupid's fiery shaft Quench'd in the chaste beams of the watery moon ; And the imperial votaress pass'd on, In maiden meditation,... | |
| Thomas Ignatius M. Forster - 1824 - 846 pages
...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...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... | |
| William Hone - 1832 - 874 pages
...certain aim he took. At a fair vestal, throned by the west, And loosed hit loveshaft smartly from hi« bow, As it should pierce a hundred thousand hearts....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... | |
| William Hone - Almanacs, English - 1832 - 852 pages
...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...chaste beams of the watery moon, And the imperial votrcss passed on, In maiden meditation, fancy free. Yet marked I where the bolt of Cupid fell, It... | |
| William Shakespeare - 1836 - 554 pages
...Flying between the cold moon and the earth, Cupid all armed. A certain aim he took At a fair vestal,1 throned by the west ; And loosed his love-shaft smartly...imperial vot'ress passed on, In maiden meditation, fancy-free.9 Yet marked I where the bolt of Cupid fell. It fell upon a little western flower, — Before,... | |
| Mrs. Jameson (Anna) - Women - 1837 - 394 pages
...Flying between the cold moon and the earth, Cupid all anti'd : a certain aim he took At a fair Vestal, throned by the West, And loosed his love-shaft smartly...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,... | |
| David Paul Brown - 1838 - 86 pages
...all armed; a certain aim he took At a fair vestal, throned by the west, And loosed his love shafts smartly from his bow, As it should pierce a hundred...chaste beams of the watery moon, And the imperial votaress passed on, In maiden meditation fancy free. Yet marked I where the bolt of Cupid fell —... | |
| 1838 - 654 pages
...Ven. and Ad. ' I saw, but thou couldst not, Cupid all armed : a certain aim he took At a fair vestal, throned by the west, And loosed his loveshaft smartly...hearts ; But I might see young Cupid's fiery shaft Quench 'd in the chaste beams of the watery moon, And the imperial maiden passed on, In maiden meditation,... | |
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