 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
 | Theodore Vrettos - History - 2010 - 290 pages
...Burn'don 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...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... | |
 | Eka D. Sitorus - Acting - 2002 - 280 pages
...Burn'd on the water, the poop was beaten gold; Purple the sails; and so parfumed that The winds were love-sick with them; the oars were silver, Which to...beggar'd all description. She did lie In her pavilion, cloth-of-gold, of tissue, O'erpicturing that Venus where we see The fancy out-work nature. On each... | |
 | G. Wilsin Knight - Drama - 2002 - 368 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 to...beggar'd all description: she did lie In her pavilion— doth-of-gold of tissue — O'er-picturing that Venus where we see The fancy outrwork nature: on each... | |
 | George Wilson Knight - Drama - 2002 - 396 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 to...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... | |
 | Kenneth Muir - Drama - 2002 - 216 pages
...throne, / Burn'd on the water' (II, ii, 199-200). The text continues with an explicit reference to Venus: 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. (lines 205-9) Plutarch, from whom... | |
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