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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... "
MONUMENTS OF EGYPT - Page 153
by FRANCIS L. HAWKS, D.D., LL.D. - 1850
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The Poetics of Spice: Romantic Consumerism and the Exotic

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...
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The Masks of Anthony and Cleopatra

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...
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Center Or Margin: Revisions of the English Renaissance in Honor of Leeds Barroll

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...
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The Cambridge Introduction to Shakespeare

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...
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Shakespeare and Music: Afterlives and Borrowings

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...
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Be a Poet

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...
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If I Never Get Back: A Novel

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...
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East-West Montage: Reflections on Asian Bodies in Diaspora

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...
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T S Eliot, The Waste Land and Prufrock

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...
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The Seduction of the Crimson Rose

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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