 The barge she sat in, like a burnish'd throne, Burn'd on the water ; the poop was beaten gold, Purple the sails, and so perfumed that The winds were love-sick with them, the oars were silver, Which to the tune of flutes kept stroke, and made The water...  Red-letter Poems by English Men and Women - Page 39de Thomas Young Crowell - 1885 - 648 pagesAffichage du livre entier - À propos de ce livre
 | William Shakespeare - 1852 - 574 pages
...Cidnus. Agr. There she appear'd indeed ; or my reporter devised well for her. Eno. I will tell you : The barge she sat in, like a burnish'd throne, Burn'd...person, It beggar'd all description : she did lie In her pavilion (cloth of gold, of tissue), O'erpicturing that Venus, where we see. The fancy out-work... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1852 - 570 pages
...Cidnus. Agr. There she appear'd indeed ; or my reporter devised well for her. Eno. I will tell you : The barge she sat in, like a burnish'd throne, Burn'd...As amorous of their strokes. For her own person, It beggarM all description : she did lie In her pavilion (cloth of gold, of tissue), O'erpicturing that... | |
 | George William Curtis - 1852 - 318 pages
...gleam ? Behold it, dreamer, where it comes: " The barge she sat in like a burnished throne, Burned on the water: the poop was beaten gold, Purple the...As amorous of their strokes. For her own person, It beggared all description : she did lie In her pavilion (cloth of gold, of tissue) O'erpicturing that... | |
 | Gordon Williams - 1996 - 298 pages
...by 'pretty dimpled boys, like smiling Cupids': The barge she sat in, like a burnished throne Burned on the water. The poop was beaten gold; Purple the...beat to follow faster, As amorous of their strokes. (II.ii.198) In those last lines he figures what he takes to be Antony's masochistic obsession, which... | |
 | Robert Andrews - 1997 - 666 pages
...(1670, trans. 1688), rev. A.). Krailsheimer (1966). The barge she sat in, like a burnished throne Burned on the water. The poop was beaten gold; Purple the...beat to follow faster, As amorous of their strokes. WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE, (1564-1616) British dramatist, poet. Enobarbus, in Antony and Cleopatra, act 2,... | |
 | Thomas Stearns Eliot - 1996 - 476 pages
...compare Antony and Cleopatra, II ii 195—2.00: The barge she sat in, like a burnished throne, Burned on the water. The poop was beaten gold; Purple the...and made The water which they beat to follow faster, TSE has 'golden' (7), 'beat' (5), and 'faster' (24). He later refashioned Enobarbus's speech, both... | |
 | Frederick Turner - 1999 - 232 pages
...Plutarch of Chaeronea) And here is Shakespeare: The barge she sat in, like a burnished throne, Burned on the water: the poop was beaten gold; Purple the...As amorous of their strokes. For her own person, It beggared all description: she did lie In her pavilion, cloth-of-gold of tissue, O'erpicturing that... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1999 - 202 pages
...well for her. ENOBARBUS I will tell you. 200 The barge she sat in, like a burnished throne, Burned on the water. The poop was beaten gold; Purple the...As amorous of their strokes. For her own person, It beggared all description. She did lie In her pavilion, cloth-of-gold of tissue, 209 O'erpicturing that... | |
 | Simon Sebag Montefiore - 2001 - 692 pages
...the Empress embarked on her galley in the most luxurious fleet ever seen on a great river. CLEOPATRA The barge she sat in, like a burnish'd throne, Burn'd...strokes. For her own person, It beggar'd all description . . . William Shakespeare, Antony and Cleopatra At midday on 1.2. April 1787, Catherine, Potemkin and... | |
 | Rosemary Manning - 2000 - 196 pages
...which opened off one end of it. 'The barge she sat in,' began Chief, 'I wonder if I can remember it ... "The barge she sat in, like a burnish'd throne, Burn'd...strokes. For her own person, It beggar'd all description ..." ' Her senses held by the poetry, Rachel's truant mind played with the tempting hope that she would... | |
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