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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... "
Familiar Quotations: A Collection of Passages, Phrases, and Proverbs Traced ... - Page 155
by John Bartlett - 1903 - 1158 pages
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Spirited Men: Story, Soul & Substance

Brian Doyle - 2004 - 164 pages
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Antony and Cleopatra

William Shakespeare - 2004 - 224 pages
...cropped bore fruit ENOBARBUS I will tell you. 185 The barge she sat in, like a burnished throne, Burned on the water. The poop was beaten gold; Purple the...Which to the tune of flutes kept stroke, and made 190 The water which they beat to follow faster, As amorous of their strokes. For her own person, It...
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Caesar And Cleopatra: Antony And Cleopatra

Bernard Shaw - 2004 - 256 pages
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Shakespeare, Italy, and Intertextuality

Michele Marrapodi - 2004 - 292 pages
...the sea is recollected in the peculiar enchanted and erotic harmony of sea and oars in Shakespeare: 'the oars were silver, / Which to the tune of flutes...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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Racine et Shakespeare

Michael Edwards - 2004 - 190 pages
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The Vale of Soulmaking: Post-Kleinian Model of the Mind and Its Poetic Origins

Meg Harris Williams - 2005 - 278 pages
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The Sources of Shakespeare's Plays

Kenneth Muir - 2005 - 344 pages
...play with the god Bacchus, for the generall good of all Asia. The barge she sat in, like a burnish' d throne, Burn'd on the water. The poop was beaten gold;...strokes. For her own person, It beggar'd all description. She did lie In her pavillion, cloth-of-gold, of tissue, O'erpicturing that Venus where we see The fancy...
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History's Worst Decisions: And the People who Made Them

Stephen Weir - 2005 - 264 pages
...appetites they feed, but she makes hungry Where most she satisfies. The barge she sat in, like a burnished throne, burn'd on the water; the poop was beaten gold,...strokes. For her own person, it beggar'd all description. — Shakespeare, Antony and Cleopatra MARC ANTONY Isn't it odd that Cleopatra, the last of the Ptolemies,...
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Book of Duos: The Stories Behind History's Great Partnerships

Ian Harrison - 2005 - 284 pages
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The Case for Shakespeare: The End of the Authorship Question

Scott McCrea - 2005 - 310 pages
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