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
| Timothy Morton - Literary Criticism - 2006 - 304 pages
...and overpowering on the flowing and erotic: 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 amorous... | |
| Marvin Rosenberg, Mary Rosenberg - Drama - 2006 - 628 pages
...Enobarbus's own soft amazements): the poop was 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 of flutes kept stroke, and made The water which they beat, to follow faster, As amorous... | |
| John Leeds Barroll - Literary Collections - 2006 - 326 pages
...Aeneid had already been given. Editors of the play have remarked that its "burned" and "burnished" ("The barge she sat in, like a burnished throne, / Burned on the water") recall not only the flames of Virgil's Actium but also Tasso's palace of Armida, whose gates are inscribed... | |
| Emma Smith - Literary Criticism - 2007 - 6 pages
...AGR i PPA There she appeared indeed, or my reporter devised well for her. ENOBARBUS I will tell you. The barge she sat in, like a burnished throne Burned...winds were lovesick 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... | |
| Julie Sanders - Language Arts & Disciplines - 2007 - 243 pages
...anthologized and appropriated, not least by TS Eliot's jazz-music-influenced The Waste Land: I will tell you. The barge she sat in, like a burnished throne Burned...perfumed that The winds were love-sick with them. (Antony and Cleopatra, n.ii. 197-201) In its renamed form, however, the opening number of the suite... | |
| Nancy Bogen - Literary Criticism - 2007 - 426 pages
...here describing Cleopatra's meeting with Antony: The barge she sat in, like a burnish 'd throne, Burnt 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 strokes, and made The water which they beat to follow faster, As amorous... | |
| Darryl Brock - Fiction - 2007 - 434 pages
...on the river, Hurley recited sarcastically: "The barge she sat in, like a burnish' d throne, Burnt on the water. The poop was beaten gold, Purple the...perfumed that The winds were love-sick with them. ..." Then he pretended to choke, gagging and clutching at his mouth. Champion was not amused. "What's... | |
| Sheng-mei Ma - Social Science - 2007 - 330 pages
...astral vehicle bearing the unidentifiable, or UFO, a subject of Jung's ruminations in his last days. The barge she sat in, like a burnished throne, Burned...on the water. The poop was beaten gold, Purple the sail, and so perrumed that The wind were lovesick with them . . . . . . For her own person, It beggared... | |
| C J Ackerley - Literary Criticism - 2007 - 97 pages
...she sat in, like a burnish' d throne, Burn'd on 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 of flutes kept stroke, and made The water which they beat to follow faster, As amorous... | |
| Lauren Willig - Fiction - 2008 - 412 pages
...perfectly lovely surprise. . . ." Chapter Thirteen The barge she sat in, life a burnisht throne, Burnt on the water: the poop was beaten gold; Purple the sails, and so perfumed that The winds were love-sic^ with them; the oars were silver, Which io the tune of flutes \ept strokf, and made The water... | |
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