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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... "
The Poetical Sketch-book: Including a Third Edition of Australia - Page 140
by Thomas Kibble Hervey - 1829 - 286 pages
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The juvenaile poetical library; selected from the works of modern British ...

Priscilla Maden Watts - 1839 - 286 pages
...THE EMBARKATION OF CLEOPATRA. BY TK HERVEV. The barge she sat in, like a burnished throne, Burned on the water : the poop was beaten gold : Purple the...beat to follow faster, As amorous of their strokes. SH»KSPEAEE. FLUTES in the sunny air ! And harps in the porphyry halls ! And a low, deep hum — like...
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The Young Lady's Reader

Louisa Caroline Tuthill - English language - 1839 - 482 pages
...CLEOPATRA UPON THE CYDNUS.— SHAKSPEARE. The barge she sat in, like a burnished throne, Burned on the water : the poop was beaten gold : Purple the...beat, to follow faster, As amorous of their strokes. For her own person, It beggared all description : she did lie In her pavilion (cloth of gold, of tissue,)...
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The Dramatic Works of William Shakspeare: Julius Cęser. Antony and ...

William Shakespeare - 1839 - 534 pages
...devised well for her. Eno. I will tell you: Tho barge she sat in like a burnished throne, Burned on the water: the poop was beaten gold; Purple the sails,...beat, to follow faster, As amorous of their strokes. For her own person, It beggared all description; she did lie In her pavilion, (cloth of gold, of tissue,)...
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Shakespeare's Tragic Skepticism

Millicent Bell - Literary Criticism - 2002 - 316 pages
...queen called Gloriana by the Elizabethans: The barge she sat in, like a burnished throne Burned on the water. The poop was beaten gold; Purple the sails,...beat to follow faster, As amorous of their strokes. For her own person, It beggared all description: she did lie In her pavilion — cloth of gold, of...
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The Cambridge Introduction to Narrative

H. Porter Abbott - Literary Criticism - 2002 - 230 pages
...describe Antony's first view of Cleopatra: The barge she sat in, like a burnished throne, Burned on the water. The poop was beaten gold, Purple the sails,...which they beat to follow faster, As amorous of their strokes.9 This is not what anyone would call detached, objective reporting. Enobarbus draws on a diverse...
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Shakespeare: For All Time

Stanley Wells - Biography & Autobiography - 2003 - 494 pages
...much of North's phraseology remains in lines that nevertheless achieve complete poetic independence: The poop was beaten gold: Purple the sails, and so...beat to follow faster, As amorous of their strokes. For her own person. It beggared all description. She did lie In her pavilion - cloth of gold, of tissue...
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Shakespeare Survey, Volume 6

Allardyce Nicoll - Drama - 2002 - 208 pages
...people cold and to the famous description of Cleopatra's first meeting with Antony (n, ii, 197-201): Purple the sails, and so perfumed that The winds were...beat to follow faster, As amorous of their strokes and here, as in the Edward HI passage, there is a lavish use of gold and silver.13 There remain to...
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The Cambridge Companion to Shakespearean Tragedy

Claire McEachern - Drama - 2002 - 310 pages
...detailed recital of Cleopatra's river journey: The barge she sat in, like a burnished throne Burned on the water. The poop was beaten gold; Purple the sails,...were silver, Which to the tune of flutes kept stroke (2.2.201-5) And yet as luscious as the sounds and pictures may be, even those images employed for their...
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Secrets of Acting Shakespeare: The Original Approach

Patrick Tucker - Performing Arts - 2002 - 316 pages
...rell you. The barge she sat in, like a burnished throne Burned on the warer. The poop was bearen gold1 Purple the sails, and so perfumed that The winds were...with them. The oars were silver. Which to the tune of flures kept stroke, and made The warer which they beat to follow fasrer, As amorous of theit strokes....
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The art of acting: seni peran untuk teater, film dan TV

Eka D. Sitorus - Acting - 2002 - 280 pages
...Anthony dan Cleopatra karya William Shakespeare: 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 parfumed that The winds were love-sick with them; the oars were silver, Which to the tune of flutes...
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