 | Nicholas John Halpin - 1843 - 140 páginas
...point of unity in which the " fair Vestal " and the " cold Moon " are perfectly identified : — " a certain aim he took At a fair Vestal throned by the West ; — But J might see young Cupid's fiery shaft Quenched in the chaste beams of the wat'ry Moon." It... | |
 | Muriel Clara Bradbrook - 1989 - 238 páginas
...image carries 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 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... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1992 - 132 páginas
...her song, And certain stars shot madly from their spheres To hear the sea-maid's music.37 I remember. That very time I saw (but thou couldst not), Flying...a fair vestal, throned by the west, And loosed his love-shaft smartly from his bow, As it should pierce a hundred thousand hearts; 160 But I might see... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1994 - 692 páginas
...And certain stars 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...a fair vestal throned by the west, And loosed his loveshaft smartly from his bow As it should pierce a hundred thousand hearts; 160 But I might see young... | |
 | 1995 - 108 páginas
...certain stars 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...a fair vestal throned by the west, And loosed his love-shaft smartly from his bow. It fell upon a little western flower, Before, milk-white, now purple... | |
 | David L. Smith, Richard Strier, David Bevington - 2003 - 312 páginas
...love-in-idleness (a contemporary name for the pansy). Oberon tells Puck how, seated on a promontary, he saw Cupid all armed: a certain aim he took At a fair vestal, throned by the west, Quotations from the play are taken from the Arden edition, edited by Harold F. Brooks (1979), and abbreviated... | |
 | Mary Beth Rose - 1995 - 208 páginas
...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 [the] west, And loos'd his love-shaft smartly from his bow. As it should pierce a hundred thousand hearts; But I might... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1996 - 1290 páginas
...And certain stars shot madly from their spheres, To hear the sea-maid's music. I remember. OBERON. le Harry! [Exeunt arm 41: a certain aim he took At a fair vestal throned by the west, And loosed lois love-shaft smartly... | |
 | Louis Montrose - 1996 - 246 páginas
...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 thousand hearts. But I might... | |
 | Valerie Traub, M. Lindsay Kaplan, Dympna Callaghan - 1996 - 324 páginas
...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 thousand hearts. (11.i.155-60)... | |
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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 shaft Quenched in the chaste beams of the watery moon ; And the imperial votaress... 
