 The barge she sat in, like a burnish'd throne, 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,...  The Plays and Poems of William Shakspeare - Page 231by William Shakespeare - 1821Full view - About this book
 | Clyde E. Fant, Mitchell G. Reddish - Bibles - 2003 - 429 pages
...burnish'd throne, 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...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... | |
 | William M. Landes, Richard A. Posner - Business & Economics - 2003 - 460 pages
...burnished throne, Burnt on the water. The poop was beaten gold; Purple the sails, and so perfumed that The winds were lovesick with them. The oars were silver,...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... | |
 | Richmond Tyler Barbour - Drama - 2003 - 274 pages
...burnished throne, Burned 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...As amorous of their strokes. For her own person, It beggared all description. (2.2.201-8) The speech is a set-piece of proto-orientalist vision: the splendid,... | |
 | Larry Sider, Jerry Sider, Diane Freeman - Performing Arts - 2003 - 260 pages
...taking her to her first meeting with Anthony in Shakespeare's play is perhaps the classic example: '... the oars were silver, Which to the tune of flutes...beat to follow faster, As amorous of their strokes.' The words between 'stroke' and 'faster' require the speaker to push through the resistance of the line-break,... | |
 | Body, Mind & Spirit - 180 pages
...burnish'd throne, Burn W on the water: the poop was beaten fjoid; Purple the sails, and so perfumed that The winds were love-sick with them; the oars were...tune of flutes kept stroke, and made The water which thev beat to follow faster, As amorous of their strokes. For her own person, It bejigared all deseription:... | |
 | 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...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 for the audience... | |
 | Frederick Kiefer - Literary Collections - 2003 - 378 pages
...description of Cleopatra, spoken by the gruff soldier Enobarbus, is similarly lacking in specificity: she did lie In her pavilion - cloth of gold, of tissue O'er-picturing that Venus where we see The fancy outwork nature. (2.2.198-201) If Shakespeare's knowledge of ancient representations is unclear,... | |
 | James R. Keller, Leslie Stratyner - Performing Arts - 2014 - 208 pages
...burnish'd throne. Burn'd on the water: the poop was beaten gold; Purple the sales, and so perfumed that The winds were love-sick with them: the oars were...beggar'd all description: she did lie In her pavilion — cloth-of-gold of tissue — on each side her Stood pretty dimpled boys, like smiling Cupids, With... | |
 | Michele Marrapodi - Drama - 2004 - 292 pages
...the sea is recollected in the peculiar enchanted and erotic harmony of sea and oars in Shakespeare: 'the oars were silver, / Which to the tune of flutes...beat to follow faster, / As amorous of their strokes' (2.2.204-7). The complete series of intermedi, in fact, anticipate and elaborate Shakespeare in celebrating... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 2004 - 224 pages
...burnished throne, Burned on the water. The poop was beaten gold; Purple the sails, and so perfumed that The winds were lovesick with them. The oars were silver,...Which to the tune of flutes kept stroke, and made 190 The water which they beat to follow faster, As amorous of their strokes. For her own person, It... | |
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