 | James Augustus St. John - Greece - 1844 - 1382 pages
...poop was beaten gold ; Purple the Bails, and so perfumed, that The winds were love-sick with "em : the oars were silver ; Which to the tune of flutes...As amorous of their strokes. For her own person, It beggar'd all description. She did lie In her pavilion, (cloth of gold of tissue,) O'er-picturing that... | |
 | Valentine Mott - Europe - 1845 - 470 pages
...scene of enchantment in the sun and on the waves. " The barge he sat in, like a bumish'd throne Burn'd on the water : the poop was beaten gold ; Purple the...made The water which they beat to follow faster." Three or four of his favourites accompanied him. The other barges contained the rest of his court.... | |
 | American literature - 1845 - 606 pages
...SHAKSPEARE'S ANTONY AND CLEOPATRA. See Plate. THE barge she sat in, like a burnisb'd throne, Burn'd on the water : the poop was beaten gold ; Purple the...made The 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,... | |
 | Queen - 1846 - 670 pages
...become ,to her poor Sanchiza !" CHAPTER III. " The barge she sat in, like a burnished throne, Burnt on the water ; the poop was beaten gold, Purple the...beat, to follow faster, As amorous of their strokes." ON wears the day — and the crowds that hurry through Lisbon's narrow streets press rapidly forward,... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1847 - 568 pages
...devised well for her. Eno. I will tell you : The barge she sat in, like a burnish 'd throne, Burn'd on the water : the poop was beaten gold ; Purple the...made The water, which they beat, to follow faster, ' be square to her.] ie if report quadrates with her, or suits with her merits. VOL. vn. K As amorous... | |
 | English literature - 1848 - 556 pages
...too closely upon dangerous and " holy ground." The barge she sat in, like a burnish'd throne, Beam'd on the water; the poop was beaten gold; Purple the...As amorous of their strokes. For her own person, It beggnr'd all description — she did lie In her pavilion (cloth of gold of tissue,} O'er picturing... | |
 | Howard Crosby - Islam - 1851 - 406 pages
...life by bathing in the cold waters of the Cydnus, and here Cleopatra captivated the heart of Antony. " The barge she sat in, like a burnished throne Burned...beat, to follow faster, As amorous of their strokes." This place is probably the Tarshish to which Jonah attempted to flee ; but its crowning glory, in the... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1851 - 586 pages
...devised well for her. Eno. I will tell you : The barge she sat in, like a burnish'd throne, Burn'd on the water : the poop was beaten gold ; Purple the...As amorous of their strokes. For her own person, It beggar'd all description : she did lie In her pavilion (cloth of gold, of tissue), O'erpicturing that... | |
 | English poetry - 1851 - 496 pages
...DESCRIPTION OF CLEOPATRA SAILING DOWN THE CYDNUS. THE barge she sat in, like a burnish'd throne, Burn'd on the water : the poop was beaten gold ; Purple the...As amorous of their strokes. For her own person, It beggar'd all description ; she did lie In her pavilion (cloth of gold, of tissue), O'erpicturing that... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1851 - 408 pages
...beaten gold; Purple the sails, and so perfumed, that The winds were love-sick with them: the oars wera silver; Which to the tune of flutes kept stroke, and...As amorous of their strokes. For her own person, It beggar'd 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... 
