 | John Holmes Agnew, Walter Hilliard Bidwell - 1845 - 604 pages
...beaten gold ; Purple the sails, and so perfumed, that The winds were lovesick with them : the oars Which to the tune of flutes kept stroke, and made...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... | |
 | American literature - 1845 - 606 pages
...water, which they beat, to follow faster, Aa amorous of their strokes. For her own person, It beggared all description : she did lie In her pavilion, (cloth...see, The fancy outwork nature ;. on each side her, Stood pretty dimpled boys, like smiling Cupids, With diverse-color'd fans, whose wind did seem To glow... | |
 | Gordon Williams - Literary Criticism - 1996 - 298 pages
...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...beat to follow faster, As amorous of their strokes. (II.ii.198) In those last lines he figures what he takes to be Antony's masochistic obsession, which... | |
 | Pauline Kiernan - Drama - 1998 - 236 pages
...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...beat to follow faster, As amorous of their strokes . . . (II. ii. 191-7) Shakespeare's Cleopatra is a biological magnet that draws all the elements of... | |
 | Robert Andrews - Language Arts & Disciplines - 1997 - 666 pages
...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...beat to follow faster, As amorous of their strokes. WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE, (1564-1616) British dramatist, poet. Enobarbus, in Antony and Cleopatra, act 2,... | |
 | Jonathan Bate - Drama - 1998 - 420 pages
...sails, and so perfumed that The winds were love-sick with mem. The oars were silver, Which to the mne of flutes kept stroke, and made The water which they...As amorous of their strokes. For her own person, It beggared all description. She did lulu her pavilion - cloth of gold, of tissue O'er-picmring that Venus... | |
 | Frederick Turner - Literary Criticism - 1999 - 232 pages
...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 The...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... | |
 | Simon Sebag Montefiore - Biography & Autobiography - 2001 - 692 pages
...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...strokes. For her own person, It beggar'd all description . . . William Shakespeare, Antony and Cleopatra At midday on 1.2. April 1787, Catherine, Potemkin and... | |
 | Rosemary Manning - Fiction - 2000 - 196 pages
...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...strokes. For her own person, It beggar'd all description ..." ' Her senses held by the poetry, Rachel's truant mind played with the tempting hope that she would... | |
 | Robert S. Miola - Literary Criticism - 2000 - 206 pages
...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...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... | |
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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,... 
