 | Leigh Hunt - 1845 - 372 Seiten
...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 seen young Cupid's fiery shaft Quench d in the chaste beams of the wat'ry moon : And the imperial votaress... | |
 | Leigh Hunt - 1845 - 278 Seiten
...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 seen young Cupid's fiery shaft Quench''d in the chaste beams of the wafry moon : And the imperial votaress... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 2014 - 228 Seiten
...aim he took At a fair vestal throned by the west And loosed his love-shaft smartly from his bow 160 As it should pierce a hundred thousand hearts; But...chaste beams of the watery moon; And the imperial votaress passed on, In maiden meditation, fancy-free. 165 Yet marked I where the bolt of Cupid fell:... | |
 | Margaret W. Ferguson, Maureen Quilligan, Nancy Vickers - 1986 - 464 Seiten
...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 shaft Quench'd in the chaste beams of the watery moon; And the imperial votress passed on, In maiden meditation,... | |
 | Joseph Allen Bryant - 1986 - 300 Seiten
...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 shaft Quench'd in the chaste beams of the wat'ry moon. And the imperial vot'ress passed on, In maiden meditation,... | |
 | Jan Kott - 1987 - 180 Seiten
...with or without a blindfold — would randomly shoot his arrows at shepherdesses, sometimes missing: But I might see young Cupid's fiery shaft Quenched...chaste beams of the watery moon; And the imperial votaress passed on. (2.1.161-63) But the Renaissance Cupid, who appears eight times in the poetic discourse... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1992 - 132 Seiten
...And loosed his love-shaft smartly from his bow, As it should pierce a hundred thousand hearts; 160 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, fancy-free.38 Yet marked I... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1994 - 692 Seiten
...west, And loosed his loveshaft smartly from his bow As it should pierce a hundred thousand hearts; 160 But I might see young Cupid's fiery shaft Quenched...chaste beams of the watery moon, And the imperial votaress passed on 144-5 Not for thy fairy kingdom!. . .As refer to Queen Elizabeth) often, a couplet... | |
 | David L. Smith, Richard Strier, David Bevington - 2003 - 312 Seiten
...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....chaste beams of the watery moon; And the imperial votaress passed on, In maiden meditation, fancy-free. (2.1.157-64) While there can be no doubt at all... | |
 | Mary Beth Rose - 1995 - 208 Seiten
...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 shaft Quench'd in the chaste beams of the wat'ry moon, And the imperial vot'ress passed on, In maiden meditation,... | |
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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 hundred thousand hearts : But I might see young Cupid's fiery... 
