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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 Heroines of History

Mrs. Octavius Freire Owen Owen - 1854 - 426 pages
...scene by the hand of our greatest poet : — " 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 Heroines of History

Mrs. Octavius Freire Owen Owen - 1854 - 452 pages
...scene by the hand of our greatest poet : — " The barge she sat in, like a burnished throne, Burned on the water : the poop was beaten gold ; Purple the....made The water, which they beat, to follow faster, As amoroua of their strokes. For her own person, It beggared all description : she did lie In her pavilion...
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The library of biblical literature, Volumes 1-3

1854 - 818 pages
...devised well for her. Eno. I -will tell you : — The barge she sat in, like a hurnished throne, Burned on the water : the poop was beaten gold ; Purple the...Which to the tune of flutes kept stroke, and made * WH Bartlett's " Footsteps of our Lord," &c., p. 84 + " life and Letters of St. Paul," by Conybeare...
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The Works of Shakespeare: the Text Carefully Restored According to the First ...

William Shakespeare - 1855 - 630 pages
...devis'd well for her. Eno. I will tell you : ls 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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Lucy; or, Scenes on lough Neagh, and other poems

Edward Morse - 1855 - 156 pages
...that exquisite picture drawn by Shakspeare : — "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 works of Virgil, closely rendered into Engl. rhythm and ..., Volume 1

Publius Vergilius Maro - 1855 - 474 pages
...description of Cleopatra's first visit to Antony : " The barge she sat in, like a burnish'd throne, Burn'd on the water : the poop was beaten gold ; Purple the...Which to the tune of flutes kept stroke, and made Within her chamber dallying, at the gates The princes of the Poeni wait, and, badged The water, which...
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Nile Notes of a Howadji

George William Curtis - 1856 - 382 pages
...gleam ? Behold it, dreamer, where it comes : " The barge sbe 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 Complete Works of Shakspeare, Revised from the Best ..., Volume 1

William Shakespeare - 1857 - 630 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...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'crpicturing that...
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Shakespeare's Comedies, Histories, Tragedies, and Poems, Volume 6

William Shakespeare - 1858 - 736 pages
...reporter 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, and tissue *) O'er-picturing...
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The Plays of Shakespeare with the Poems, Volume 3

William Shakespeare - 1860 - 834 pages
...; or my reporter devised well for her. ENO. I will tell you. The barge she sat in, like a burnish'd . He-enter POLIXENES. POL. This heggar'd all description : she did lie In her pavilion, (cloth-of-gold of tissue) * O'cr-picturing...
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