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" 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 of... "
The Dramatic Works of William Shakespeare: Accurately Printed from the Text ... - Page 259
by William Shakespeare, George Steevens - 1829
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The Annotated Waste Land with Eliot's Contemporary Prose

T. S. Eliot - Literary Criticism - 2006 - 300 pages
...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...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...
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The Poetics of Spice: Romantic Consumerism and the Exotic

Timothy Morton - Literary Criticism - 2006 - 304 pages
...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...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...
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The Masks of Anthony and Cleopatra

Marvin Rosenberg, Mary Rosenberg - Drama - 2006 - 628 pages
...beaten gold! Purple the sails!— the royal color — and so perfumed that The winds were lovesick with them! the oars were silver! Which to the tune...faster, As amorous of their strokes! For her own person — Enobarbus has earned an audience laugh here, by failing to find words enough, and letting his audience...
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T S Eliot, The Waste Land and Prufrock

C J Ackerley - Literary Criticism - 2007 - 97 pages
...the water. The poop was beaten gold; Purple the sail, and so perfumed that The winds were love-sick with them; the oars were silver, Which to the tune...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...
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The Cambridge Introduction to Shakespeare

Emma Smith - Literary Criticism - 2007 - 6 pages
...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...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...
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