 | William Shakespeare - 1811 - 436 pages
...fiery shaft Quench'd in the chaste beams of the wat'ry moon ; And the imperial vot'ress passed on, In maiden meditation, fancy-free*. Yet mark'd I where...And maidens call it, love-in-idleness. Fetch me that fiower ; the herb I show'd thee once ; The juice of it ou sleeping eye-lids laid, Will make or man... | |
 | William Shakespeare, Alexander Chalmers - 1811 - 520 pages
...chaste beams of the wat'ry moon ; And the imperial votress passed on, In maiden meditation, fancy-free.8 Yet mark'd I where the bolt of Cupid fell : It fell...wound, — And maidens call it, love-in-idleness. * At a fair vestal, throned by the uest ;] A compliment to Queen Elizabeth. * — -fancy-free^ ie exempt... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1811 - 452 pages
...And the imperial vot'ress passed on, la maiden meditation, fancy-free*. Yet mark'd I where the holt of Cupid fell : It fell upon a little western flower, — Before, milk-white; now purple -with love's wound,-iAnd maidens call it, love in-idleness. Fetch me that flower; the herh I show'd thee once; The... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1810 - 418 pages
...aspiring to marry a Queen, by the image of a star shooting or descending from its sphere." STEEVENS, Yet mark'd I where the bolt of Cupid fell : It fell...purple with love's wound, — And maidens call it, love-in-idleness.2 Fetch me that flower ; the herb I show'd thee once ; The juice of it on sleeping... | |
 | Robert John Thornton - Botany - 1812 - 188 pages
...rirtucs in the person of Obcron king of the fairies, in the Midsummer Night's Dream. Act 2. Sc. 2. Yet mark'd I where the bolt of Cupid fell, It fell upon a little western flower, Before milk white, now purple with love's wound, And maidens call it Love in Idleness. Fetch me that flower,... | |
 | Janus (Secundus) - 1812 - 212 pages
...us. [Ecce calent ilia, 6?.] This metamorphosis reminds me of one something like it, in Shakespeare : Yet mark'd I where the bolt of Cupid fell : It fell upon a little western. flow'r, ' Before milk-white, now purple with love's wound. And maidens call it love in idleness. SIIAK.... | |
 | John Evans (M. D.) - Bees - 1806 - 332 pages
...in corn fields. Their change to purple is beautifully alluded to by the poet: : •• Yet marft'd I where the bolt of Cupid fell ; " It fell upon a little western flower, Stain'd by the bolt of love her purple breast, And " freak'd with jet" her party-colour'd vest. lu... | |
 | Leigh Hunt - English poetry - 1814 - 216 pages
...chaste beams of the watery moon ; And the imperial votaress pass'd on, In maiden meditation, fancy free. Yet mark'd I where the bolt of Cupid fell :— It...And maidens call it Love-in-idleness. Fetch me that flow'r, — the herb I shew'd thee once : The juice of it, on sleeping eyelids laid, Will make or man... | |
 | Leigh Hunt - English poetry - 1814 - 188 pages
...chaste beams of the watery moon ; And the imperial votaress pass'd on, In maiden meditation, fancy free. Yet mark'd I where the bolt of Cupid fell :— It...flower, — Before, milk-white, — now purple with lore's wound,— And maidens call it Love-in-idleness. Fetch me that flow'r, — the herb I shew'd... | |
 | Jane Porter - 1817 - 414 pages
...once paused on the page of Shakespeare, which his nephew was reading to his cousins: — " Yet marked I where the bolt of Cupid fell! It fell upon a little...now purple with love's wound; And maidens call it Love in Idleness." " Not love, my children," cried the venerable instructor; " love was bestowed by... | |
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Yet mark'd I where the bolt of Cupid fell: It fell upon a little western flower, Before milk-white, now purple with love's wound, And maidens call it love-in-idleness. 
