 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
 | 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... | |
 | David Schalkwyk - Drama - 2002 - 284 pages
...scattered body, but as an ineffable potency which lies beyond the power and limits of representation: 'For her own person, / It beggar'd all description: she did lie / In her pavilion . . . / O'er-picturing that Venus where we see / The fancy outwork nature' (2.2.204 8). Which is to... | |
 | Stanley Wells - Biography & Autobiography - 2003 - 494 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... | |
 | Claire McEachern - Drama - 2002 - 310 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. (2.2.201-11) Enobarbus is describing... | |
 | Millicent Bell - Literary Criticism - 2002 - 316 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... | |
 | Alison Ross, Jen Greatrex - Language Arts & Disciplines - 2001 - 424 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...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... | |
 | Clyde E. Fant, Mitchell G. Reddish - Bibles - 2003 - 429 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... | |
 | Carol Falvo Heffernan - Literary Criticism - 2003 - 182 pages
...120-21); however, Cleopatra, as described by Enobarbus, is an irresistible magnetic work of art: . . . her own person It beggar'd all description: she did lie In her pavilion - cloth of gold, of tissue O'er-picturing Venus where we see The fancy outwork nature. (2.2.1 97-20 1 ) This proves to be as true... | |
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