 | Charles Stephen Brooks - 1928 - 384 pages
...that the "certain stars shot madly" were Dugdale's fireworks. 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 hundred... | |
 | Marion Ansel Taylor - 1973 - 260 pages
...Oberon's description of the "fair vestal throned by the west": 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 loosed his love-shaft smartly from his bow, As it should pierce a hundred... | |
 | Joseph Allen Bryant - 1986 - 300 pages
...explanation of how the plant came to have its peculiar character and potency: ... 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... | |
 | 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 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... | |
 | Muriel Clara Bradbrook - 1989 - 238 pages
...masquespectacle, the play perhaps being for such an occasion itself. 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 . . . (II.i.155-58) The fair vestal enthroned would hold an orb; the round... | |
 | Valerie Traub, M. Lindsay Kaplan, Dympna Callaghan - 1996 - 324 pages
...to shoot and seduce the "fair vestal." "That very time I saw (but thou couldst not)," Oberon says: 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 pieree a hundred... | |
 | 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 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... | |
 | Dorothea Kehler - 1998 - 520 pages
...spheres, To hear the sea-maids's music? Robin. I remember. 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 loos'd his love-shaft smartly from his bow. As it should pierce a hundred... | |
 | Frances Amelia Yates - 1999 - 302 pages
...following the imagery of the cult. That very time I saw (but thou could'st not) Flying between the cool 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... | |
 | Harold Bloom - 2001 - 750 pages
.../ To hear the sea maid's nu1sic? / 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... | |
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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... 
