 | William Shakespeare - 1843 - 594 pages
...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...and made The water which they beat to follow faster, ' ; ' : i , . ; -•; ':,' •• , • \ -- ' :^.. As amorous of their strokes. For her own person,... | |
 | Petrus Hofman Peerlkamp - Latin poetry, Medieval and modern - 1843 - 600 pages
...gold; Purple the sails, and so perfum'd, that The winds were love-sick with them: the oars were sll«< Which to the tune of flutes kept stroke, and made...person , It beggar'd all description: she did lie In her pavilion (cloth of gold, of tissue). C'er-picturing that venus, where we see The fancy out-work... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1844 - 352 pages
...upon the river of Cydnus. Agr. There she appeared indeed, or my reporter devised well for her. £no. I will tell you : The barge she sat in, like a burnish'd...person, It beggar'd all description : she did lie In her pavilion, (cloth of gold, of tissue) O'er-picturing that Venus, where we see The fancy outwork... | |
 | Clinton G. Gilroy - Engraving - 1844 - 674 pages
...in his 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...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 that... | |
 | Liberalism (Religion) - 1850 - 536 pages
...EGYPTIAN UVEF.X EMBAHKINO ON THE CYDNUS.) " ' 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.' — SHAKSPBABB. " Flutes in the sunny air ! And harps in the porphyry halls! And a low, deep hum, —... | |
 | Polyphilus (pseud.) - 1844 - 268 pages
...down the Cydnus. The barge she sat in, like a burnish' d throne Burn'd on the water : the poop n as beaten gold ; Purple the sails, and so perfumed, that...As amorous of their strokes. For her own person, It begjjar'd all description : she did lie In her pavilion (cloth of gold, of tissue), O'er picturing... | |
 | James Augustus St. John - Greece - 1844 - 1382 pages
...poop was beaten gold ; Purple the Bails, and so perfumed, that The winds were love-sick with "em : the oars were silver ; Which to the tune of flutes...own person, It beggar'd all description. She did lie In her pavilion, (cloth of gold of tissue,) O'er-picturing that Venus, where \ve see The fancy out-work... | |
 | Clinton G. Gilroy - 1845 - 680 pages
...in his 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...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 that... | |
 | Valentine Mott - Europe - 1845 - 470 pages
...like a magic 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...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 court.... | |
 | American literature - 1845 - 606 pages
...ii. p. 4U8. FROM 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...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 In her pavilion,... | |
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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... 
