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" 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... "
The Plays of Shakespeare - Page 541
by William Shakespeare - 1860
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A2 English Language and Literature for AQA B

Alison Ross, Jen Greatrex - 2001 - 424 pages
...Cleopatra DOMITIUS ENOBARBUS I will tell you. The barge she sat in, like a burnish'd throne Burn'd on the water: the poop was beaten gold; Purple the...As amorous of their strokes. For her own person, It beggar'd all description: she did lie In her pavilion - cloth of gold, of tissue O'er-picturing that...
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Shakespeare, Italy, and Intertextuality

Michele Marrapodi - 2004 - 292 pages
...Cleopatra's barge: ENOBARBUS I will tell you. 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 descriptions: she did lie In her pavilion, cloth-of-gold, of tissue, O'erpicturing that...
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Almost Shakespeare: Reinventing His Works for Cinema and Television

James R. Keller, Leslie Stratyner - 2014 - 208 pages
...she sat in, like a burnish'd throne. Burn'd on the water: the poop was beaten gold; Purple the sales, and so perfumed that The winds were love-sick with...As amorous of their strokes. For her own person, It beggar'd all description: she did lie In her pavilion — cloth-of-gold of tissue — on each side...
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Antony and Cleopatra

William Shakespeare - 2004 - 224 pages
...cropped bore fruit ENOBARBUS I will tell you. 185 The barge she sat in, like a burnished throne, Burned on the water. The poop was beaten gold; Purple the...Which to the tune of flutes kept stroke, and made 190 The water which they beat to follow faster, As amorous of their strokes. For her own person, It...
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The Annotated Waste Land with Eliot's Contemporary Prose

T. S. Eliot - 2006 - 300 pages
...down the Cydnus River to Antony (11. 192-206): 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...
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Shakespeare and Republicanism

Andrew Hadfield - 2005 - 392 pages
...display that her successor instinctively avoided) : 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...
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History's Worst Decisions: And the People who Made Them

Stephen Weir - 2005 - 264 pages
...but she makes hungry Where most she satisfies. The barge she sat in, like a burnished throne, burn'd on the water; the poop was beaten gold, purple the...as amorous of their strokes. For her own person, it beggar'd all description. — Shakespeare, Antony and Cleopatra MARC ANTONY Isn't it odd that Cleopatra,...
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The Practical Shakespeare: The Plays in Practice and on the Page

Colin Butler - 2005 - 217 pages
...account of the prelude to Antony's first meeting with Cleopatra: The barge she sat in, like a burnish 'd throne, Burnt on the water. The poop was beaten gold,...beat to follow faster, As amorous of their strokes. . . . (2.2) Enobarbus's sumptuous tableau vivant is an accumulation of color, sensuousness, wealth,...
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Music in Shakespearean Tragedy

Frederick William Sternfeld - 2005 - 392 pages
...rather closely, has reduced the band to a single family of instruments, the amorous flute (Il.ii) : The poop was beaten gold ; Purple the sails, and so...beat to follow faster, As amorous of their strokes. . . . There is a similar musical economy in Shakespeare's treatment 1 Kittredge SP 880 and 943 ; NS...
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The Poetics of Spice: Romantic Consumerism and the Exotic

Timothy Morton - 2006 - 304 pages
...and overpowering on the flowing and erotic: The barge she sat in, like a burnish 'd throne, Burn'd on the water. The poop was beaten gold; Purple the...As amorous of their strokes. For her own person, It beggar'd all description. She did lie In her pavilion, cloth-of-gold, of tissue, O'erpicturing that...
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