| Barry Strauss - Biography & Autobiography - 2001 - 180 pages
...Cleopatra on her galley, seducing Mark Antony: 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... | |
| Antony Rowland - Literary Criticism - 2001 - 340 pages
...of the queen in Act II of Shakespeare's play: The barge she sat in, like a burnished throne Burned on the water. The poop was beaten gold; Purple the sails, and so perfumed that The winds were lovesick with them. (II. ii. 195-98) Harrison rewrites Shakespeare's pun... | |
| Theodore Vrettos - History - 2010 - 290 pages
...Plutarch, colorfully described the occasion: The barge she sat in like a burnish'd throne, Burn'don 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... | |
| Claire McEachern - Drama - 2002 - 310 pages
...example in Enobarbus's description of the Nile-borne Cleopatra: The barge she sat in, like a burnish'd throne, Burnt 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... | |
| H. Porter Abbott - Literary Criticism - 2002 - 230 pages
...to describe Antony's first view of Cleopatra: The barge she sat in, like a burnished throne, Burned on the water. The poop was beaten gold, Purple the sails, and so perfumed that The winds were lovesick with them. The oars were silver, Which to the tune of flutes... | |
| Millicent Bell - Literary Criticism - 2002 - 316 pages
...the queen called Gloriana by the Elizabethans: The barge she sat in, like a burnished throne Burned on the water. The poop was beaten gold; Purple the sails, and so perfumed that The winds were lovesick with them. The oars were silver, Which to the tune of flutes... | |
| George Wilson Knight - Drama - 2002 - 396 pages
...meeting with Antony: Enobarbus. 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 sails, and so perfumed that The winds were love-sick with them; the oars were silver, Which to the tune of flutes... | |
| Martina Mittag - English literature - 2002 - 280 pages
...Enobarbus in Antony and Cleopatra, UU 1 94-245 : The barge she sat in, like a bumish'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... | |
| G. Wilsin Knight - Drama - 2002 - 368 pages
...barge at Cydnus: Enobarbus. 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 sails, and so perfumed, that The winds were love-sick with them; the oars were silver, Which to the tune of flutes... | |
| Eka D. Sitorus - Acting - 2002 - 280 pages
...Shakespeare). Di sana kita melihat bermacam kesan. 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 parfumed that The winds were love-sick with them; the oars were silver, Which to the tune of flutes... | |
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