 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
 | Maurice Balme, James Morwood - Latin language - 1997 - 224 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. Once... | |
 | Nancy B. Watson - Body, Mind & Spirit - 1996 - 288 pages
...were love-sick with them; the oars were silver, Which to the tune of flutes kept stroke, and made Tlie water which they beat to follow faster, As amorous...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 Tlie fancy outwork nature.... | |
 | Victor L. Cahn - Literary Criticism - 1996 - 865 pages
...of glorious language, this homage is still astonishing. Then Enobarbus moves to Cleopatra herself: 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... | |
 | Pauline Kiernan - Drama - 1998 - 232 pages
...forthe god Cupide, with litle fannes in their hands, with the which they fanned wind upon her . . .2 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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