 | Nicholas John Halpin - 1843 - 136 Seiten
...earth, Cupid all-armed: f a certain aim he took At a fair Vestal,* throned by the West, And loosed a love-shaft smartly from his bow, As it should pierce...Cupid's fiery shaft Quenched in the chaste beams of the wafry moon, And the Imperial Votaress passed on, In maiden meditation, fancy-free. that the Mermaid... | |
 | Agnes Strickland, Elisabeth Strickland - 1844 - 532 Seiten
...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...votress passed on, In maiden meditation, fancy-free." Henry III., in a letter to Mauvissiere, his ambassador, directs him to communicate this event " to... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1844 - 554 Seiten
...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.2 Yet marked I where the bolt of Cupid fell. It fell upon a little western flower, — Before,... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1844 - 662 Seiten
...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...hearts : But I might see young Cupid's fiery shaft Quench'd in the chaste beams of the watery mouti ; And the imperial vot'rese passed on, In maiden meditation,... | |
 | Agnes Strickland - 1848 - 374 Seiten
...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...watery moon, And the imperial votress passed on, In maidSn meditation, fancy-free." So much, however, had Anjou contrived to endear himself to the fair... | |
 | Robert Tyas - 1848 - 264 Seiten
...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...chaste beams of the watery moon ; And the imperial votaress pass'd on, In maiden meditation, fancy free. Yet marked I where the bolt of Cupid fell : It... | |
 | George Lillie Craik - 1848 - 446 Seiten
...all armed. A certain aim he took At a fair Vestal throned by the West; And loosed a love-shaft madly from his bow, As it should pierce a hundred thousand...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: It... | |
 | Charles Dickens, William Harrison Ainsworth, Albert Smith - 1849 - 688 Seiten
...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...hearts , But I might see young Cupid's fiery shaft Quench 'd by the chaste beams of the watery moon, And the imperial votaress passed on In maiden meditation... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1850 - 586 Seiten
...the earth, Cupid all armed. A certain aim he took 8C. U.] MIDSUMMER-NIGHT'S DREAM. 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.2 Yet marked I where the bolt of Cupid fell. It fell upon a little western flower, — Before,... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1850 - 556 Seiten
...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...chaste beams of the watery moon ; And the imperial votaress passed on. In maiden meditation, fancy-free.2 Yet marked I where the bolt of Cupid fell. It... | |
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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 from his bow, As it should pierce a hundred thousand... 
