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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... "
The plays of Shakspere, carefully revised [by J.O.] with a selection of engr ... - Page 880
by William Shakespeare - 1853
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Comedy of errors. Troilus and Cressida. Timon of Athens. Coriolanus. Julius ...

1833 - 304 pages
...portraits. I. CLEOPATRA arriving at Taurus. "... The barge she sat in, like a burnish'd throne, BurnM on the water : the poop was beaten gold ; Purple the...stroke, and made The water, which they beat, to follow faster, As amorous of their strokes. For her own person, It beggar'd all description: she did lie In...
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Julius Caesar. Antony and Cleopatra. Cymbeline. Titus Andronicus. Pericles

William Shakespeare - 1836 - 534 pages
...upon the river of Cydnus.3 Agr. There she appeared, indeed ; or my reporter devised well for her. Eno. I will tell you : The barge she sat in like a burnished...stroke, and made The water, which they beat, to follow faster, As amorous of their strokes. For her own person, It beggared all description ; she did lie...
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The Dramatic Works of William Shakspeare, Volume 2

William Shakespeare - 1838 - 522 pages
...devised well for her. /..'но. I will tell you : The barge she 6at in, like a burnish'd throne, Burn'd on the water : the poop was beaten gold ; Purple the...stroke, and made The water, which they beat, to follow faster, As amorous of their strokes. For her own person, It beggar'd all description : she did lie...
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The Knickerbocker: Or, New-York Monthly Magazine, Volume 11

Charles Fenno Hoffman, Timothy Flint, Lewis Gaylord Clark, Kinahan Cornwallis, John Holmes Agnew - American periodicals - 1838 - 590 pages
...her court and person were always surrounded. ' The barge she sat in, like a burnished throne, Burnt on the water: the poop was beaten gold, Purple the...stroke, and made The water, which they beat, to follow faster, As amorous of their strokes. For her own person, It beggard all description. At the helm, A...
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The History of Egypt Under the Ptolemies

Samuel Sharpe - Egypt - 1838 - 246 pages
...entered the river Cydnus in the Egyptian fleet: The barge she sat in, like a burnish'd throne, Burn'd on the water: the poop was beaten gold, Purple the...stroke, and made The water which they beat to follow faster, As amorous of their strokes. For her own person, It beggar'd all description. She did lie In...
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The Dramatic Works of William Shakspeare: Julius Cæser. Antony and ...

William Shakespeare - 1839 - 526 pages
...upon the river of Cydnus.2 Agr. There she appeared, indeed ; or my reporter devised well for her. Eno. I will tell you : The barge she sat in like a burnished...stroke, and made The water, which they beat, to follow faster, As amorous of their strokes. For her own person, It beggared all description ; she did lie...
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The Young Lady's Reader

Louisa Caroline Tuthill - English language - 1839 - 482 pages
...gifted souls and high ! Is not such their destiny ? HYPERBOLE. CLEOPATRA UPON THE CYDNUS.— SHAKSPEARE. The barge she sat in, like a burnished throne, Burned...stroke, and made The water, which they beat, to follow faster, As amorous of their strokes. For her own person, It beggared all description : she did lie...
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The juvenaile poetical library; selected from the works of modern British ...

Priscilla Maden Watts - 1839 - 286 pages
...pockets are well lined, 'Tis labour lost to go a-wooing. THE EMBARKATION OF CLEOPATRA. BY TK HERVEV. The barge she sat in, like a burnished throne, Burned...stroke, and made The water which they beat to follow faster, As amorous of their strokes. SH»KSPEAEE. FLUTES in the sunny air ! And harps in the porphyry...
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The Dramatic Works of William Shakspeare: Julius Cæser. Antony and ...

William Shakespeare - 1839 - 534 pages
...her. t Agr. There she appeared, indeed; or my reporter devised well for her. Eno. I will tell you: Tho barge she sat in like a burnished throne, Burned on...stroke, and made The water, which they beat, to follow faster, As amorous of their strokes. For her own person, It beggared all description; she did lie In...
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Antony and Cleopatra. Cymbeline

William Shakespeare - 1841 - 202 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...stroke, and made The water, which they beat, to follow faster, As amorous of their strokes. For her own person, It beggar'd all description : she did lie...
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