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... MONUMENTS OF EGYPT - Page 153by FRANCIS L. HAWKS, D.D., LL.D. - 1850Full view - About this book
| Henry Home (lord Kames.), Lord Henry Home Kames - Criticism - 1817 - 532 pages
...Cleopatra on shipboard, appears to me exceptionable : The barge she sat in, like a burnish'd throne, Burnt on the water: the poop was beaten gold, Purple the sails, and so perfum'd, that The winds were love-sick with them. Antony and Cleopatra, Act n. Sc. 2. The winds in... | |
| William Shakespeare - 1818 - 444 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...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... | |
| William Hazlitt - 1818 - 342 pages
...poetical description of her person, beginning — " The barge she sat in, like a bnrnnh'd throne, Burnt on the water ; the poop was beaten gold, Purple the...sails, and so perfumed, that The winds were lovesick" — seems to prepare the way for, and almost to justify, the subsequent infatuation of 'Antony when... | |
| William Shakespeare, Samuel Johnson, George Steevens - 1820 - 434 pages
...her; and that, when she landed, he sent to her to invite her to supper M. Mason. Burn'd on the water:s the poop was beaten gold; Purple the sails, and so...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... | |
| William Shakespeare - 1821 - 588 pages
...tell you: The barge she sat in, like a burnish 'd throne, Burn'd on the water: the poop was beaien gold; Purple the sails, and .so perfumed, that The...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... | |
| William Shakespeare - 1821 - 454 pages
...her. ENO. I will tell you : The barge she sat in 7, like a burnish'd throne, Burn'd on the water 8 : the poop was beaten gold ; Purple the sails, and so perfumed, that negligence and inattention in Shakspeare. Enobarbus is made to say that Cleopatra gained Antony's heart... | |
| Académie royale des sciences, des lettres et des beaux-arts de Belgique - 1822 - 878 pages
...Antonio et Cleopatra, act. II, se. IL « The barge she sat in, like a burnish M throne, •> Burnt on the water : the poop was beaten gold; •• Purple the sails, and so perfum'd, that » The winds were love-sick with them: the oars were silver, •' Which to the tone... | |
| William Shakespeare - 1823 - 346 pages
...devised well for her. Eno. I will tell you : The barge she sat in, like a burnish'd throne,s Burn'd on the water : the poop was beaten gold ; Purple the...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... | |
| 1824 - 706 pages
...serpent of old Nile — sailing down the Cydnus to make captive of the valiant but voluptuous Anthony : "The barge she sat in, like a burnished throne, Burned...winds were love-sick with them ; the oars were silver, Which to the tune of flutes kept stroke." * While this Lecture is going through the press, the telegraph... | |
| William Shakespeare - 1824 - 512 pages
...reporter devised well for her. Eno. I will tell you : The barge she sat in, like a bumish'd throne, Burn'd on the water : the poop was beaten gold ; Purple 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... | |
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