 | Theocritus - 1836 - 450 sidor
...certain stars shot, madly from their spheres, To hear the sea-maid's music. PUCK. " I remember. ODERON. " That very time I saw (but thou couldst not), Flying between the cold moon and the earth, MM 398 NOTICE OF BION. Cupid all armed. A certain aim he took At a fair vestal throned by the west;... | |
 | Muriel Clara Bradbrook - 1989 - 238 sidor
...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...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 sidor
...to then* 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 sidor
...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 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... | |
 | 1995 - 108 sidor
...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 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... | |
 | David L. Smith, Richard Strier, David Bevington - 2003 - 312 sidor
...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... | |
 | Louis Montrose - 1996 - 246 sidor
...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...Cupid's fiery shaft Quench'd in the chaste beams of the watery moon; And the imperial votress passed on, In maiden meditation, fancy-free. Yet mark'd I where... | |
 | Valerie Traub, M. Lindsay Kaplan, Dympna Callaghan - 1996 - 324 sidor
...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...his love-shaft smartly from his bow, As it should pieree a hundred thousand hearts. (11.i.155-60) The shaft misses, "quench'd" in the chaste beams of... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1996 - 1290 sidor
...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... | |
 | Dorothea Kehler - 1998 - 520 sidor
...certain stars shot madly from their spheres, To hear the sea-maids's music? Robin. I remember. Oberon. That very time I saw, but thou couldst not, Flying...should pierce a hundred thousand hearts; But I might sees young Cupid's fiery shaft Quench'd in the chaste beams of the watery moon, And the imperial votaress... | |
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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 loos'd his love-shaft smartly from his bow, As it should pierce a hundred thousand... 
