| 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... | |
| 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,)... | |
| 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,)... | |
| 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... | |
| 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... | |
| 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... | |
| 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... | |
| 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... | |
| 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.... | |
| 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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