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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,... "
A General Collection of Voyages and Travels from the Discovery of America to ... - Page 309
by William Fordyce Mavor - 1809
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Characters of Shakespear's Plays

William Hazlitt - 1817 - 392 pages
...rich and poetical description of her person, beginning— " 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"— seems to prepare the way for, and almost to justify the...
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Characters of Shakespeare's Plays

William Hazlitt - 1818 - 342 pages
...rich and poetical description of her person, beginning — " The barge she sat in, like a bnrnnh'd throne, Burnt on the water ; the poop was beaten gold, Purple the sails, and so perfumed, that The winds were lovesick" — seems to prepare the way for, and almost to justify, the...
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The Family Shakspeare: In Ten Volumes; in which Nothing is Added ..., Volume 8

William Shakespeare - 1818 - 444 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 sails, and so perfumed, that The winds were love-sick with them : the oars were silver ; Which to the tune of flutes...
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Mémoires ... qui ont remporté le prix et les accessit de la ..., Volume 2

Académie royale des sciences, des lettres et des beaux-arts de Belgique - 1822 - 878 pages
...Adde Shakesperium in Antonio et Cleopatra, act. II, se. IL « The barge she sat in, like a burnish M throne, •> Burnt on the water : the poop was beaten gold; •• Purple the sails, and so perfum'd, that » The winds were love-sick with them: the oars were silver, •' Which to the tone...
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The Dramatic Works of William Shakespeare, in Ten Volumes: Julius Caesar ...

William Shakespeare - 1823 - 346 pages
...devised well for her. Eno. I will tell you : The barge she sat in, like a burnish'd throne,s 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...
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The Plays, Volume 8

William Shakespeare - 1824 - 422 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 sails, and so perfumed, that The winds were love-sick with them : the oars were silver ; Which to the tune of flutes...
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Addresses Delivered at the Triennial Celebration ...

1824 - 706 pages
...captive of the valiant but voluptuous Anthony : "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 love-sick with them ; the oars were silver, Which to the tune of flutes...
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A dictionary of quotations from the British poets, by the author of The ...

British poets - 1824 - 676 pages
...sheep, I should be merry as the day is long. SHIP. 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 perfum'd, that The winds were love-sick with them : the oars were silver, Suppose, that you have seen,...
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The Dramatic Works of William Shakspeare, Volume 2

William Shakespeare - 1824 - 512 pages
...reporter devised well for her. Eno. I will tell you : 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...
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Tremaine: Or, The Man of Refinement, Volume 1

Robert Plumer Ward - 1825 - 370 pages
...only made the beautiful passage more impressive, repeated : " ' 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 grew love-sick with them. The oars were silver, ' Which to the tune of flutes...
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