| William Shakespeare - 1814 - 526 pages
...hurnish'd throne, Burn'd on the water : the poop was heaten gold ; Purple the sails, and so pert'um'd, that The winds were love-sick with them : the oars...flutes kept stroke, and made The water, which they heat, to follow faster, As amorous of their strokes. For her own person, It heggar'd all description... | |
| Elegant extracts - 1816 - 490 pages
...Description of Cleopatra's Sailing down the Cydnns. 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 ELEGANT EXTRACTS, BOOK III. The winds were love-sick with them : th' oai were silver : [mad Which to... | |
| Lord Henry Home Kames - Criticism - 1816 - 452 pages
...Cleopatra on shipboard, appears to me exceptionable : The barge she sat in, like a burnish'd throne, Burnt on the water : the poop was beaten gold, Purple the sails, and so perfum'd, that The winds were love-sick with 'em. Antony and Cleopatra, Act II. Sc. 3, The winds in... | |
| William Hazlitt - 1817 - 392 pages
...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...and so perfumed, that The winds were love-sick"— seems to prepare the way for, and almost to justify the subsequent infatuation of Antony when in the... | |
| Henry Home (lord Kames.), Lord Henry Home Kames - Criticism - 1817 - 532 pages
...Cleopatra on shipboard, appears to me exceptionable : The barge she sat in, like a burnish'd 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. Antony and Cleopatra, Act n. Sc. 2. The winds in... | |
| William Hazlitt - 1818 - 342 pages
...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 subsequent infatuation of 'Antony when... | |
| William Shakespeare - 1821 - 454 pages
...her. ENO. I will tell you : The barge she sat in 7, like a burnish'd throne, Burn'd on the water 8 : the poop was beaten gold ; Purple the sails, and so perfumed, that negligence and inattention in Shakspeare. Enobarbus is made to say that Cleopatra gained Antony's heart... | |
| Académie royale des sciences, des lettres et des beaux-arts de Belgique - 1822 - 878 pages
...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... | |
| 1824 - 706 pages
...serpent of old Nile — sailing down the Cydnus to make captive of the valiant but voluptuous Anthony : "The barge she sat in, like a burnished throne, Burned...silver, Which to the tune of flutes kept stroke." * While this Lecture is going through the press, the telegraph informs us that the Great Republic nas... | |
| Mrs. Inchbald - English drama - 1824 - 556 pages
...she came from Egypt. The barge she sat in, like a burnish'd throne, Burnt on the water : the stern was beaten gold ; Purple the sails, and so perfumed,...oars were silver, Which to the tune of flutes kept time, and made The water, which they beat, to follow faster, As amorous of their strokes. For her own... | |
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