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" 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 149
by Robert Plumer Ward - 1825
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The dramatic (poetical) works of William Shakspeare; illustr ..., Volume 6

William Shakespeare - 1851 - 556 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 dimpled...
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Nile Notes of a Howadji

George William Curtis - Egypt - 1851 - 350 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'erpicturing that Venus, where we see The fancy outwork nature. On each side her Stood pretty dimpled...
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The Dramatic Works of William Shakespeare: With a Life of the Poet, and ...

William Shakespeare - 1851 - 712 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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The Dramatic Works of William Shakspeare: Julius Caesar. Antony and ...

William Shakespeare - 1851 - 530 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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Dramatic Works: From the Text of Johnson, Stevens and Reed; with ..., Volume 4

William Shakespeare - 1852 - 574 pages
...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...did lie In her pavilion (cloth of gold, of tissue), O'erpicturing that Venus, where we see. The fancy out-work nature: on each side her, Stood pretty dimpled...
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William Shakspeare's Complete Works, Dramatic and Poetic, Volume 2

William Shakespeare - 1852 - 562 pages
...perfumed, that The winds were love-sick with them: the oars were silver ; Which to the tune of flotes e your O'er-picturing that Venus, where we see The fancy out-work nature : on each side her, Stood pretty...
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Encyclopædia metropolitana; or, System of universal knowledge, Volume 18

Encyclopaedia - 1852 - 482 pages
...amorous of their strokes. For her own person, The water which they beat, to follow faster, It beggared all description: she did lie In her pavilion, (cloth of gold, of tissue) The fancy out-work nature. O'er-picturing that Venus, where we see Her The artifices of this fascinating...
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The Works of William Shakspeare, Volume 4

William Shakespeare - 1852 - 570 pages
...water, which they beat, to follow faster, As amorous of their strokes. For her own person, It beggarM all description : she did lie In her pavilion (cloth of gold, of tissue), O'erpicturing that Venus, where we see, The fancy outwork nature : on each side her, Stood pretty dimpled...
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The Comedies, Histories, Tragedies, and Poems of William Shakspere ...

William Shakespeare - 1852 - 708 pages
...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 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 dimpled...
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The Sources of Shakespeare's Plays

Kenneth Muir - 1977 - 320 pages
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