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" The barge she sat in, like a burnished throne, Burned 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... "
Jacob Faithful - Page 239
by Frederick Marryat - 1834 - 307 pages
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The Metropolitan, Volume 10

1834 - 590 pages
...ribbons, laughing and pointing to my man. " Plead you to me, fair dame? I know you not : At Ephnsus I am but two hours old, As strange unto your town...barge she sat in, like a burnished throne, Burned on tho water — the poop was beaten gold : Purple the sails, and so perfumed, that The winds were love-sick...
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Compton Audley; or, Hands not hearts

lord William Pitt Lennox - 1841 - 898 pages
...barks manned with revellers in their best ^rbs shot along the glancing tide." Guide to Richmond. " The barge she sat in, like a burnished throne, Burned on the water." Antony and Cleopatra. LONDON was growing hot, so everybody began to say, though during the heat of...
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Christian Examiner and Theological Review

1850 - 538 pages
...master's hand. "CLEOPATRA. (AFTER DAMBY'S PICTT/RE OF THE EGYPTIAN QUEEN EMBARKIKO ON THE CYDNOS.) " 'The barge she sat in, like a burnished throne Burned on the water : the poop wan beaten gold ; Purple the sails, and so perfumed that The winds were lovesick with them; the oars...
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Nile Notes of a Howadji

George William Curtis - 1851 - 350 pages
...barge, sumptuously sliding upon the golden gleam ? Behold it, dreamer, where it comes : " The barge ahe sat in like a burnished throne, Burned on the water : the poop was beaten gold, L* Purple the sails, and so perfumed, that The winds were love-eick with them : the oars were silver,...
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Nile notes, by a traveller [G.W. Curtis].

George William Curtis - 1851 - 354 pages
...the queen's barge, sumptuously sliding upon the golden gleam ? Behold it, dreamer, where it comes : " The barge she sat in like a burnished throne, Burned on the water : the poop vas beaten gold, T* •Purple the sails, and so perfumed, that The winds were love-sick with them :...
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A Summer Story: Sheridan's Ride, and Other Poems

Thomas Buchanan Read - 1865 - 184 pages
...States, Eise nobly, and fall basely ; and there still Waits for new wonders, silent on yon hill. * The barge she sat in, like a burnished throne, Burned on the water, etc. — Antony and Cleopatra. II. THE SOALINNATTI. IN Rome, there is a glorious flight of stone, Terrace...
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The Land We Love, Volume 2

1867 - 492 pages
...richly embroidered canopy. The scene strikingly suggests the gorgeous description of the poet — " The barge she sat in, like a burnished throne Burned on the water. For her own person It beggar'd all description : She did lie In her pavilion (cloth of gold, of tissue,)...
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A Library of Poetry and Song: Being Choice Selections from the Best Poets

William Cullen Bryant - 1871 - 968 pages
...priests Bless her when she is riggish. SHAKESPEARE. CLEOPATRA. FROM " ANTONY AND CLEOPATRA." ENOBARBUS. ll luve thoe still, my dear, While the sands o' life shall run. And fare thee weel, my only ; GODIVA. NOT only we, the latest seed of Time, New men, that in the flying of a wheel Cry down the...
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Our Poetical Favorites: A Selection from the Best Minor Poems of the English ...

Asahel Clark Kendrick - 1871 - 484 pages
...bloom ! HORACE SMITH. Cleopatra, Embarking on the Cydnus. After a Picture by Derby. " The harge she eat in, like a burnished throne, Burned on the water: the poop was beaten gold: Purple the sail; and so perfumed that The winds were love-sick with them : the oare were silver. Which to the...
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Text-book of English Composition for the Use of Schools

Thomas Morrison (LL.D.) - 1874 - 166 pages
...The discontent was heightened by calamities, which the best administration could not have averted. The barge she sat in, like a burnished throne, Burned on the waters. I'm sitting on tho stile, Mary, Where wo sat side by side; On a bright May morning long ago...
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