| Mrs. Charles Meredith - 1836 - 400 pages
...madly from their spheres To hear the sea maid's music. Puck. I remember — Obe.run. That very time I saw, (but thou could'st 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... | |
| Joseph Allen Bryant - 1986 - 300 pages
...give Puck a pretty explanation of how the plant came to have its peculiar character and potency: ... I saw (but thou couldst not), Flying between the cold...should pierce a hundred thousand 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... | |
| Margaret W. Ferguson, Maureen Quilligan, Nancy Vickers - 1986 - 464 pages
...Titania has remembered her Indian votaress, Oberon remembers his "imperial votaress." He has once beheld, Flying between the cold moon and the earth, Cupid...should pierce a hundred thousand hearts. But I might see young Cupid's fiery shaft Quench'd in the chaste beams of the watery moon; And the imperial votress... | |
| Muriel Clara Bradbrook - 1989 - 238 pages
...the quality of a masquespectacle, the play perhaps being for such an occasion itself. That very time I saw (but thou couldst not) Flying between the cold...certain aim he took At a fair vestal throned by the west . . . (II.i.155-58) The fair vestal enthroned would hold an orb; the round world with its cold moon... | |
| Sir Walter Scott - 1902 - 378 pages
...exquisite delicacy of tact and 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 ann'd : a certain aim he took At a fair vestal, throned by the west ; And loos' d his love-shaft smartly... | |
| William Shakespeare - 1994 - 692 pages
...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... | |
| Mary Beth Rose - 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...should pierce a hundred thousand 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... | |
| David L. Smith, Richard Strier, David Bevington - 2003 - 312 pages
...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 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... | |
| 1995 - 108 pages
...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... | |
| Louis Montrose - 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...should pierce a hundred thousand hearts. But I might see young Cupid's fiery shaft Quench'd in the chaste beams of the watery moon; And the imperial votress... | |
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