 The barge she sat in, like a burnish 'd throne, Burnt 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,...  Tremaine: Or, The Man of Refinement - Page 149by Robert Plumer Ward - 1825Full view - About this book
 | Thomas Kibble Hervey - 1866 - 752 pages
...Burned 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...beat to follow faster, As amorous of their strokes. LUTES in the sunny air! SHAKESPEARE. And harps in the porphyry halls! And a low, deep hum, —like... | |
 | Belgravia - 1866 - 588 pages
...his posterity were peers. Sic ititr ad astnt. Purple the sails, and so perfumed that The winds were love-sick with them : the oars were silver ; Which...beat to follow faster, As amorous of their strokes. . . '. From the barge A strange invisible perfume hits the Eense Of the adjacent wharfs.' ' She ' must... | |
 | Bible - 1909 - 386 pages
...647). Cowley, Bathing: The amorous waves would fain about her stay. Shakespeare, A. and C. 2. 2. 200-2: made The water which they beat to follow faster, As amorous of their strokes. dividing. So of Mercury, Virgil, ALn. 4. 245—6 : Turbida tranat Nubila. Cf. Virgil, G. 1. 406; ,En.... | |
 | William Henry Smyth - Military art and science - 1867 - 804 pages
...love-sick with them; the oari were silver. BARGEES BABNACLE 79 Which to the tune of flutes kept time, and made The water which they beat to follow faster As amorous of their strokes." The barges of the lord-mayor, civic companies, <fec., and the coal-barges of the Thames are varieties.... | |
 | George Augustus Sala - Italy - 1869 - 498 pages
...Burn'd on 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...made The water which they beat to follow faster." You will see that I have taken the liberty of substituting " he" for " she ;" and indeed I cannot,... | |
 | Henry Coleman Folkard - Boats and boating - 1870 - 522 pages
...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...beat, to follow faster, As amorous of their strokes.' SHAKSPEAHK. The Chinese flower boats, although the greatest ornaments to be seen on the rivers of that... | |
 | Marcius Willson - Readers (Elementary) - 1870 - 382 pages
...Burned 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...made The water, which they beat, to follow faster, AB amorou8 of their strokes. 2. For her own person — It beggar'd all description : she did lie In... | |
 | English poetry - 1871 - 476 pages
...poop was bcateu gold: Purple the sail ; ami so perfumed that The wiuds were love-sick with them : t)ie oars were silver, Which to the tune of flutes kept...beat to follow faster, As amorous of their strokes. SHAKESPEARE. T7 LUTES in the sunny air ! J- And harps in the porphyry halls ! And a low deep hum —... | |
 | William Henry Davenport Adams - Egypt - 1871 - 360 pages
...poop was beaten gold ; Purple the sails, and so perfumed that The winds were love-sick with them ; th" oars were silver, Which to the tune of flutes kept...beat to follow faster, As amorous of their strokes." * Grand religious festivals and processions were celebrated on the Nile, reminding us, in some respects,... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1871 - 620 pages
...Burn'd on the water : the poop was beaten gold j Purple the sails, and so perfumed, that The winds were to a coward flying from his colours, was intended....constitution. ? ' But I the meanest man of many more, Yet 1 ' Lest I be thought too willing to forget benefits, I must barely return him thanks, and then I will... | |
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