 | William Shakespeare - 1865 - 476 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...stroke, and made The water which they beat to follow faster, As amorous of their strokes. For her own person, It beggar'd all description : she did lie... | |
 | Thomas Kibble Hervey - 1866 - 752 pages
...garland for thy tomb! CLEOPATRA. 18 AFTER DANBY'S PICTURE OF THE EGYPTIAN QUEEN EMBARKING ON THE CYDNUS. The barge she sat in, like a burnished throne, Burned...stroke, and made The water which they beat to follow faster, As amorous of their strokes. LUTES in the sunny air! SHAKESPEARE. And harps in the porphyry... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1867 - 362 pages
...reporter devised well for her. Eno. I will tell you : The barge she sat in, like a burnish'd throne, Burnt on the water : the poop was beaten gold ; Purple the...stroke, and made The water, which they beat, to follow faster, As amorous of their strokes. For her own person, It beggar'd all description : she did lie... | |
 | 1866 - 850 pages
...the famous Queen upon the river Nile : — " The barge she sat in, like a burnished throne, Burn'd on the water : the poop was beaten gold ; Purple the...stroke, and made The water, which they beat, to follow faster, As amorous of their strokes. For her own person, It beggarM all description : she did lin In... | |
 | Peggy Muñoz Simonds - 1992 - 412 pages
...was well known to readers of Plutarch's Lives: The barge she sat in, like a burnish 'd throne, Burnt on the water. The poop was beaten gold, Purple the...stroke, and made The water which they beat to follow faster, As amorous of their strokes. For her own person, It beggar'd all description: she did lie In... | |
 | Edith P. Hazen - 1992 - 1172 pages
...flesh. Which some did die to look on. (I, iv) 5 The barge she sat in, like a burnished throne, Burnt . faster. As amorous of their strokes. For her own person, It beggared all description: she did lie In... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1993 - 166 pages
...fanned wind upon her.' Enobarbus, in Act 2, scene 2, says this: The barge she sat in, like a burnisht throne, Burned on the water: the poop was beaten gold;...stroke and made The water which they beat to follow faster, As amorous of their strokes. For her own person, It beggared all description. She did lie,... | |
 | Jennifer Mulherin, Abigail Frost - 1993 - 40 pages
...a golden barge. Enobarbus describes Cleopatra The barge she sat in, like a burnish'd throne, Bum'd on the water; the poop was beaten gold, Purple the...stroke, and made The water which they beat to follow faster, As amorous of their strokes. For her own person, It beggar'd all description; she did lie In... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1995 - 136 pages
...Winter's Tale Act 4, Sc. 4 'I would I had some flowers . . .' 108 From The Sonnets 109 Act 2, Sc. 2 The barge she sat in, like a burnished throne, Burned...stroke, and made The water which they beat to follow faster, As amorous of their strokes. For her own person, It beggared all description: she did lie In... | |
 | Alvin B. Kernan - 1997 - 294 pages
...wealth, in her elegance becomes transcendence: The barge she sat in, like a burnish'd throne, Burnt on the water. The poop was beaten gold, Purple the...stroke, and made The water which they beat to follow faster, As amorous of their strokes. (2.2.191) Sex, drink, idleness, luxury, waste, and other palace... | |
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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... 
