 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 Works of William Shakespeare: In Nine Volumes - Page 29by William Shakespeare - 1811Full view - About this book
 | Charles Fenno Hoffman, Timothy Flint, Lewis Gaylord Clark, Kinahan Cornwallis, John Holmes Agnew - American periodicals - 1838 - 590 pages
...her court and person were always surrounded. ' The barge she sat in, like a burnished throne, Burnt on the water: the poop was beaten gold, Purple the...faster, As amorous of their strokes. For her own person, It beggard all description. At the helm, A seeming mermaid steers ; the silken tackle Swell with the... | |
 | Frederick Marryat - 1838 - 430 pages
...The barge she sat in, like a burnish 'd throne, Burn'd on the water — the poop was beaten gold j Purple the sails, and so perfumed, that The winds...faster, As amorous of their strokes. For her own person, It beggar'd all description." " Come, I'll be blowed but we've had enough of that, so just shut your... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1838 - 484 pages
...Purple the sails, and so perfumed, that [silver; The winds were love-sick with them: the oars were Which to the tune of flutes kept stroke, and made...faster, As amorous of their strokes. For her own person, It beggar' d all description: she did lie In her pavilion (cloth of gold of tissue), O'erpicturing... | |
 | 1838 - 588 pages
...and so perfumed, that The winds were love-sick with them ; the oars were silver, Which to the time of flutes kept stroke, and made The water, which they...faster, As amorous of their strokes. For her own person, It beggard all description. At the helm, A seeming mermaid steers ; the silken tackle Swell with the... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1839 - 534 pages
...upon the river of Cydnus. Agr. There she appeared indeed ; or my reporter devised well for her. Eno. I will tell you : The barge she sat in, like a burnish'd...faster, As amorous of their strokes. For her own person, It beggar'd all description : she did lie In her pavilion, (cloth of gold, of tissue) O'er-picturing... | |
 | Louisa Caroline Tuthill - English language - 1839 - 482 pages
...HYPERBOLE. CLEOPATRA UPON THE CYDNUS.— SHAKSPEARE. The barge she sat in, like a burnished throne, Burned on the water : the poop was beaten gold : Purple the...faster, As amorous of their strokes. For her own person, It beggared all description : she did lie In her pavilion (cloth of gold, of tissue,) O'er-picturing... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1839 - 526 pages
...reporter devised well for her. Eno. I will tell you : The barge she sat in like a burnished throne, Burned on the water : the poop was beaten gold ; Purple the...faster, As amorous of their strokes. For her own person, It beggared all description ; she did lie In her pavilion, (cloth of gold, of tissue,) O'er-picturing... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1839 - 534 pages
...reporter devised well for her. Eno. I will tell you: Tho barge she sat in like a burnished throne, Burned on the water: the poop was beaten gold; Purple the...faster, As amorous of their strokes. For her own person, It beggared all description; she did lie In her pavilion, (cloth of gold, of tissue,) O'er-picturing... | |
 | Priscilla Maden Watts - 1839 - 286 pages
...a-wooing. THE EMBARKATION OF CLEOPATRA. BY TK HERVEV. The barge she sat in, like a burnished throne, Burned on the water : the poop was beaten gold : Purple the...beat to follow faster, As amorous of their strokes. SH»KSPEAEE. FLUTES in the sunny air ! And harps in the porphyry halls ! And a low, deep hum — like... | |
 | William Shakespeare, Thomas Price - 1839 - 478 pages
...Purple the sails, and so perfumed, that [silver ; The winds were love-sick with them : the oars were Which to the tune of flutes kept stroke, and made...faster, As amorous of their strokes. For her own person, It beggar'd all description : she did lie In her pavilion (cloth of gold of tissue), O'erpicturing... | |
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