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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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Nile Notes of a Howadji

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...
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The Works of William Shakspeare, Volume 4

William Shakespeare - 1852 - 570 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...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...
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Dramatic Works: From the Text of Johnson, Stevens and Reed; with ..., Volume 4

William Shakespeare - 1852 - 574 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...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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The Works of Shakespeare: The Text Regulated by the Recently ..., Volume 8

William Shakespeare, John Payne Collier - 1853 - 484 pages
...reporter devised well for her. Eno. I -will tell you. The barge she sat in, like a bumish'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 and1 tissue) O'er-picturing...
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Dictionary of Shakespearian Quotations: Exhibiting the Most Forcible ...

William Shakespeare - 1853 - 444 pages
...oblivion rak'd. HV ii. 4. CLEOPATRA, SAILING. 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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The Wisdom and Genius of Shakespeare: Comprising Moral Philosophy ...

William Shakespeare - 1853 - 608 pages
...unfurnish'd. 9 — iii. 2. 184. Cleopatra's barge. 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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Ausfuhrliches theoretisch-praktisches lehrbuch der englischen sprache, Volume 2

G. F. Burckhardt - 1853 - 366 pages
...Description of Cleop'atra sailing down the Cydnus. 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 hi her pavilion, (cloth of gold, of tissue,) O'er -picturing...
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Beautiful poetry, selected by the ed. of The Critic, Volume 1

Beautiful poetry - 1853 - 740 pages
...too many, yet how few ! CLEOPATBA. SHAKSPEBE. 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-pieturing that...
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The Life and Beauties of Shakespeare: Comprising Careful Selections from ...

William Shakespeare - 1853 - 420 pages
...DESCRIPTION OF CLEOPATRA SAILING DOWN THS CYDNUS. 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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The plays of Shakspere, carefully revised [by J.O.] with ..., Part 167, Volume 2

William Shakespeare - 1853 - 832 pages
...devised well for her. ¿"no. I will tell you : — The barge she sat in, like a burnished throne, Burned His contemplation were above the earth, And fixed...thinkings are below the moon, not worth His serious Cuter, Аз amorous of their strokes. For her own person, It beggared all description : she did lie...
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