 | Harold Bloom - 2001 - 750 Seiten
.../ 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,...bow / As it should pierce a hundred thousand hearts. / Bnt I might see young Cupid's fiery shaft / Quench'd in the chaste beams of the watery moon; /And... | |
 | Kenneth Muir - 2002 - 236 Seiten
...love-inidleness' may owe something to the Cupid scenes of Lyly's play. Oberon describes how he saw: Cupid all arm'd. A certain aim he took At a fair vestal...Quench'd in the chaste beams of the wat'ry moon, And the imperial vot'ress passed on, In maiden meditation, fancy-free. (n, i, 157-64) The passage has been... | |
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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 thousand... 
