 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,...  King Lear: A Tragedy in Five Acts - Page 3by William Shakespeare - 1808 - 78 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Larry Sider, Jerry Sider, Diane Freeman - 2003 - 260 pages
...first meeting with Anthony in Shakespeare's play is perhaps the classic example: '... the oars were silver, Which to the tune of flutes kept stroke, and...beat to follow faster, As amorous of their strokes.' The words between 'stroke' and 'faster' require the speaker to push through the resistance of the line-break,... | |
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 | Frederick Kiefer - 2003 - 378 pages
...description of Cleopatra, spoken by the gruff soldier Enobarbus, is similarly lacking in specificity: she did lie In her pavilion - cloth of gold, of tissue...that Venus where we see The fancy outwork nature. (2.2.198-201) If Shakespeare's knowledge of ancient representations is unclear, we can nevertheless... | |
 | James R. Keller, Leslie Stratyner - 2014 - 208 pages
...beaten gold; Purple the sales, and so perfumed that The winds were love-sick with them: the oars were silver, Which to the tune of flutes kept stroke, and...beggar'd all description: she did lie In her pavilion — cloth-of-gold of tissue — on each side her Stood pretty dimpled boys, like smiling Cupids, With... | |
 | John Lord - 2004 - 180 pages
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 | Bernard Shaw - 2004 - 256 pages
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 | Brian Doyle - 2004 - 164 pages
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 | Michael Edwards - 2004 - 190 pages
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 | Michele Marrapodi - 2004 - 292 pages
...recollected in the peculiar enchanted and erotic harmony of sea and oars in Shakespeare: 'the oars were silver, / Which to the tune of flutes kept stroke,...beat to follow faster, / As amorous of their strokes' (2.2.204-7). The complete series of intermedi, in fact, anticipate and elaborate Shakespeare in celebrating... | |
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