 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, which they beat, to follow faster, As amorous...  Tremaine: Or, The Man of Refinement - Page 149by Robert Plumer Ward - 1825Full view - About this book
 | Alex White - Architecture - 1999 - 216 pages
...of flutes The nature of bad news infects the teller kept stroke, and water which they beat to flow faster, as amorous of their strokes. For her own person,...beggar'd all description. She did lie in her pavilion, cloth-of-gold of 4.10 gold, purple the sails, and so perfumed that the winds were love-sick with them.... | |
 | Allan Bloom - Literary Criticism - 2000 - 172 pages
...then we impatiently await description of Cleopatra herself, but are both delighted and frustrated by: For her 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 nature. (II. ii. 1 97-201 ) Shakespeare... | |
 | O. Classe - Authors - 2000 - 872 pages
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 | Robert S. Miola - Literary Criticism - 2000 - 206 pages
...water which they beat to follow faster, 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 Venus where we see The fancy outwork nature. On each side her Stood pretty... | |
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