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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... "
The plays of Shakspere, carefully revised [by J.O.] with a selection of engr ... - Page 880
by William Shakespeare - 1853
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The Art of Weaving, by Hand and by Power: With an Introductory Account of ...

Clinton G. Gilroy - Engraving - 1844 - 674 pages
...description of Cleopatra's voyage down the Cnydus : " The barge she sat in, like a burnished throne Burn'd on the water ; the poop was beaten gold ; Purple the...stroke, and made The water which they beat to follow faster, As amorous of their strokes. For her own person, It beggared all description ; she did lie...
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The Eclectic Magazine of Foreign Literature, Science, and Art, Volume 5

American literature - 1845 - 606 pages
...SHAKSPEARE'S ANTONY AND CLEOPATRA. See Plate. THE barge she sat in, like a burnisb'd throne, Burn'd on the water : the poop was beaten gold ; Purple the...stroke, and made The water, which they beat, to follow faster, Aa amorous of their strokes. For her own person, It beggared all description : she did lie...
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Travels in Europe and the East ...: In the Years 1834, '35, '36, '37, '38 ...

Valentine Mott - Europe - 1845 - 470 pages
...scene of enchantment in the sun and on the waves. " The barge he sat in, like a bumish'd throne Burn'd on the water : the poop was beaten gold ; Purple the...stroke, and made The water which they beat to follow faster." Three or four of his favourites accompanied him. The other barges contained the rest of his...
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The art of waeving by hand and by power

Clinton G. Gilroy - 1845 - 680 pages
...description of Cleopatra's voyage down the Cnydus : "The barge she sat in, like a burnished throne Burn'd on the water ; the poop was beaten gold ; Purple the...stroke, and made The water which they beat to follow faster, As amorous of their strokes. For her own person, It beggared all description ; she did lie...
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The Queen's Lieges, Volumes 1-2

Queen - 1846 - 670 pages
...become ,to her poor Sanchiza !" CHAPTER III. " The barge she sat in, like a burnished throne, Burnt on the water ; the poop was beaten gold, Purple the...stroke and made The water which they beat, to follow faster, As amorous of their strokes." ON wears the day — and the crowds that hurry through Lisbon's...
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The Plays of William Shakspeare: Accurately Printed from the Text ..., Volume 7

William Shakespeare - 1847 - 568 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...stroke, and made The water, which they beat, to follow faster, ' be square to her.] ie if report quadrates with her, or suits with her merits. VOL. vn. K...
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Julius Caesar. Antony and Cleopatra. Cymbeline. Titus Andronicus. Pericles

William Shakespeare - 1848 - 532 pages
...her. Eno. When she first met Mark Antony, she pursed up his heart upon the river of Cydnus. 8 Eno. I will tell you: The barge she sat in like a burnished...stroke, and made The water, which they beat, to follow faster, As amorous of their strokes. For her own person, It beggared all description ; she did lie...
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The New Monthly Magazine and Humorist

English literature - 1848 - 556 pages
...too closely upon dangerous and " holy ground." The barge she sat in, like a burnish'd throne, Beam'd on the water; the poop was beaten gold; Purple the...stroke— and made The water which they beat to follow faster, As amorous of their strokes. For her own person, It beggnr'd all description — she did lie...
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The Dramatic Works of William Shakspeare: Julius Caesar. Antony and ...

William Shakespeare - 1851 - 530 pages
...upon the river of Cydnus.2 Agr. There she appeared, indeed; or my reporter devised well for her. Eno. I will tell you : The barge she sat in like a burnished...stroke, and made The water, which they beat, to follow faster, As amorous of their strokes. For her own person, It beggared all description ; she did lie...
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The dramatic (poetical) works of William Shakspeare; illustr ..., Volume 6

William Shakespeare - 1851 - 556 pages
...report be square 1 to her. Agr. There she appeared, indeed; or my reporter devised well for her. Eno. I will tell you: The barge she sat in like a burnished...stroke, and made The water, which they beat, to follow faster, As amorous of their strokes. For her own person, It beggared all description; she did lie In...
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