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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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The works of Shakspere, revised from the best authorities: with a ..., Volume 2

William Shakespeare - 1843 - 594 pages
...devised well for her. Eno. I will tell you : — 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, ' ; ' : i , . ; -•; ':,' •• , • \ -- ' :^.. As amorous of their strokes. For her own person,...
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P. Hofmanni Peerlkamp Liber de vita, doctrina et facultate Nederlandorum qui ...

Pieter Hofman Peerlkamp - 1843 - 600 pages
...burnish'd throne, Burnt on the water: the poop was beaten gold; Purple the sails, and so perfum'd, that The winds were love-sick with them : the oars...amorous of their strokes. For .her own person, It beggar'd all description: she did lie In her pavilion (cloth of gold, of tissue). C'er-picturing that...
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The Art of Weaving, by Hand and by Power: With an Introductory Account of ...

Clinton G. Gilroy - 1844 - 674 pages
...description of Cleopatra's voyage down the Cnydus : " 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 beggared all description ; she did lie In her pavilion (cloth of gold of tissue) O'er picturing that...
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The Plays and Poems of William Shakespeare: Printed from the Text ..., Volume 6

William Shakespeare - 1844 - 554 pages
...devised well for her. Eno. 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...amorous of their strokes. For her own person , It beggar'd all description : she did lie ID her pavilion , (cloth of gold, of tissue) O'er-picturing...
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The Christian Examiner and Religious Miscellany, Volume 48

1850 - 536 pages
...EGYPTIAN UVEF.X EMBAHKINO ON THE CYDNUS.) " ' 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.' — SHAKSPBABB. " Flutes in the sunny air ! And harps in the porphyry halls! And a low, deep hum, —...
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The oriental rambler, or, The papers of Polyphilus

Polyphilus (pseud.) - 1844 - 268 pages
...down the Cydnus. The barge she sat in, like a burnish' d throne Burn'd on the water : the poop n as beaten gold ; Purple the sails, and so perfumed, that...As amorous of their strokes. For her own person, It begjjar'd all description : she did lie In her pavilion (cloth of gold, of tissue), O'er picturing...
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The art of waeving by hand and by power

Clinton G. Gilroy - 1845 - 680 pages
...description of Cleopatra's voyage down the Cnydus : "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 beggared all description ; she did lie In her pavilion (cloth of gold of tissue) O'er picturing that...
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Travels in Europe and the East ...: In the Years 1834, '35, '36, '37, '38 ...

Valentine Mott - 1845 - 470 pages
...scene of enchantment in the sun and on the waves. " The barge he sat in, like a bumish'd throne Burn'd on the water : the poop was beaten gold ; Purple the...made The water which they beat to follow faster." Three or four of his favourites accompanied him. The other barges contained the rest of his court....
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The Eclectic Magazine of Foreign Literature, Science, and Art, Volume 5

1845 - 606 pages
...SHAKSPEARE'S ANTONY AND CLEOPATRA. See Plate. THE barge she sat in, like a burnisb'd throne, Burn'd on the water : the poop was beaten gold ; Purple the...made The water, which they beat, to follow faster, Aa amorous of their strokes. For her own person, It beggared all description : she did lie In her pavilion,...
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The Queen's Lieges, Volumes 1-2

Queen - 1846 - 670 pages
...dear she had become ,to her poor Sanchiza !" CHAPTER III. " The barge she sat in, like a burnished throne, Burnt on the water ; the poop was beaten gold,...beat, to follow faster, As amorous of their strokes." ON wears the day — and the crowds that hurry through Lisbon's narrow streets press rapidly forward,...
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