 | William Shakespeare - 1851 - 556 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...beat, to follow 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,)... | |
 | Robert Andrews - Language Arts & Disciplines - 1997 - 666 pages
...(1670, trans. 1688), rev. A.). Krailsheimer (1966). 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. WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE, (1564-1616) British dramatist, poet. Enobarbus, in Antony and Cleopatra, act 2,... | |
 | Thomas Stearns Eliot - Poetry - 1996 - 476 pages
...compare Antony and Cleopatra, II ii 195—2.00: 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, TSE has 'golden' (7), 'beat' (5), and 'faster' (24). He later refashioned Enobarbus's speech, both... | |
 | Frederick Turner - Literary Criticism - 1999 - 232 pages
...Plutarch of Chaeronea) And here is Shakespeare: 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. For her own person, It beggared all description: she did lie In her pavilion, cloth-of-gold of tissue,... | |
 | Simon Sebag Montefiore - Biography & Autobiography - 2001 - 692 pages
...the Empress embarked on her galley in the most luxurious fleet ever seen on a great river. CLEOPATRA The barge she sat in, like a burnish'd throne, Burn'd...beat to follow faster, As amorous of their strokes. For her own person, It beggar'd all description . . . William Shakespeare, Antony and Cleopatra At... | |
 | Rosemary Manning - Fiction - 2000 - 196 pages
...which opened off one end of it. 'The barge she sat in,' began Chief, 'I wonder if I can remember it ... "The barge she sat in, like a burnish'd throne, Burn'd...beat to follow faster, As amorous of their strokes. For her own person, It beggar'd all description ..." ' Her senses held by the poetry, Rachel's truant... | |
 | Robert S. Miola - Literary Criticism - 2000 - 206 pages
...writers. Witness Enobarbus' description of Cleopatra: 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. For her own person, It beggared all description. She did lie In her pavilion — cloth of gold, of... | |
 | William Shakespeare - Drama - 2000 - 60 pages
...dazzles his Roman listeners with his account. 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. For her own person, It beggared all description: she did lie In her pavilion, cloth-of-gold of tissue,... | |
 | William Shakespeare - Generals - 2000 - 404 pages
...Appendix A). Burned on the water; the poop was beaten gold, Purple the sails, and so perfumed that 200 The winds were lovesick with them; the oars were silver,...beat to follow faster, As amorous of their strokes. For her own person, lt beggared all description: she did lie 205 ln her pavilion — cloth-of-gold... | |
 | Barry Strauss - Biography & Autobiography - 2001 - 180 pages
...(Ezekiel 27:6) Now, here is Shakespeare's portrait of Cleopatra on her galley, seducing Mark Antony: The barge she sat in, like a burnish'd throne, Burn'd...beat to follow faster, As amorous of their strokes. (Antony and Cleopatra, II, ii) The Romans enjoyed boat races and also mock naval battles. The emperor... | |
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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... 
