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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 William Shakspeare, pr. from the text of the corrected copy ... - Page 364
by William Shakespeare - 1805
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The Young Lady's Reader

Louisa Caroline Tuthill - English language - 1839 - 482 pages
...beaten gold : Purple the sails, and so perfumed that The winds were lovesick with them : the oars were silver; Which to the tune of flutes kept stroke, and...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'er-picturing that...
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Shakspearian Readings: Selected and Adapted for Young Persons and Others

William Shakespeare, Benjamin Humphrey Smart - English drama - 1839 - 490 pages
...and so perfumed, that [silver, The winds were love-sick with them: the' oars were Which, to the sound of flutes kept stroke, and made The water, which they...own person, It beggar'd all description : she did lie In her pavilion,—cloth of golden tissue,— O'er-picturing that Venus, where we see The fancy...
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The Dramatic Works of William Shakspeare: Julius Cæser. Antony and ...

William Shakespeare - 1839 - 526 pages
...beaten gold ; Purple the sails, and so perfumed, that The winds were lovesick with them ; the oars were silver ; Which to the tune of flutes kept stroke,...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'er-picturing...
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The juvenaile poetical library; selected from the works of modern British ...

Priscilla Maden Watts - 1839 - 286 pages
...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,...beat to follow faster, As amorous of their strokes. SH»KSPEAEE. FLUTES in the sunny air ! And harps in the porphyry halls ! And a low, deep hum — like...
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Commentaries on the Historical Plays of Shakspeare, Volume 2

Thomas Peregrine Courtenay - Historical drama, English - 1840 - 354 pages
...beaten gold, Purple the sails, and so perfum'd, that The winds were love-sick with 'em ; the oars were silver ; Which to the tune of flutes kept stroke,...own person, It beggar'd all description : she did lie In her pavilion (cloth of gold, of tissue), O'er picturing that Venus, where we see The fancy out-...
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The Art of Needle-work, from the Earliest Ages: Including Some Notices of ...

Elizabeth Stone, Mary Margaret Stanley Egerton Countess of Wilton - Embroidery - 1841 - 424 pages
...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,...own person, It beggar'd all description : she did lie In her pavilion (cloth of gold, of tissue), O'erpictnring that Venus, where we see The i'ancy outwork...
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Antony and Cleopatra. Cymbeline

William Shakespeare - 1841 - 202 pages
...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,...own person, It beggar'd all description : she did lie In her pavilion, (cloth of gold, of tissue) O'er-picturing that Venus, where we see The fancy outwork...
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The plays and poems of Shakespeare, according to the improved ..., Volume 12

William Shakespeare - 1842 - 354 pages
...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,...own person, It beggar'd all description : she did lie In her pavilion, (cloth of gold, of tissue) O'er-picturing that Venus, where we see The fancy outwork...
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Jacob Faithful

Frederick Marryat - 1842 - 414 pages
...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...faster, As amorous of their strokes. For her own person, Itbeggar'd all description." "Come, I'll be blowed but we've had enough of that, so just shut your...
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The Works of William Shakespeare: The Text Formed from an Entirely ..., Volume 8

William Shakespeare, John Payne Collier - 1843 - 594 pages
...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...faster, As amorous of their strokes. For her own person, v It beggar'd all description : she did lie In her pavilion, (cloth of gold, of tissue) O'er-picturing...
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