| Charles Armitage Brown - Autobiography in literature - 1838 - 328 pages
...mean that beautiful passage in Midsummer Nighfs Dream : — " That very time I saw (but thou could'st not) Flying between the cold moon and the earth, Cupid all arm'd : a certain aim he took * The heir-apparent At a fair Vestal, throned by the west, And loosed his love-shaft smartly from his... | |
| William Shakespeare, Thomas Price - 1839 - 480 pages
...madly from their spheres, To hear the sea-maid's music. — That very time I saw (but thou could'st 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 loosed his love-shaft smartly from his bow, As it should pierce a... | |
| Walter Scott - 1853 - 406 pages
...beauty of description, the celebrated vision of Oberon : " 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 loosed his love-shaft smartly from his bow, As it should pierce a... | |
| Elizabeth Elkins Sanders - 1841 - 218 pages
...madly from their spheres To hear the sea-maid's music. That very time I saw (but thou could'st not) 19 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... | |
| William Shakespeare, John Payne Collier - 1842 - 582 pages
...spheres, To hear the sea-maid's music. Puck. I remember. Obe. That very time I saw (but thou could'st 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... | |
| William Shakespeare - 1843 - 376 pages
...spheres, To hear the sea-maid's music. Puck. I remember. Obe. 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... | |
| William Shakespeare, Sir Frederick Beilby Watson - Bible - 1843 - 264 pages
...genius, he compares the Queen to a western star, viz. : — " That very time I saw (but thou could'st 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... | |
| Charles Knight - 1843 - 566 pages
...spheres, To hear the sea-maid's music. Puck, I remember. Obe. 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... | |
| William Shakespeare - 1843 - 1008 pages
...spheres. To hear the sea-maid's musick. Puck. I remember. Obe. That very time I saw, but thou coultl'st m fools ; but this I think. When they arc thirsty, fools would fain have drink. Sinn. This jest is vestal, throned by the west ; And loos'd his love-shaft smartly from his bow. As it should pierce a... | |
| Walter Scott - 1844 - 662 pages
...beauty of description, the celebrated vision of Oberon : — " 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 loosed his love-shaft smartly from his bow, As it should pierce a... | |
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