 | William Shakespeare - 1853 - 608 pages
...unfurnish'd. 9 — iii. 2. 184. Cleopatra's barge. 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... | |
 | G. F. Burckhardt - 1853 - 366 pages
...Description of Cleop'atra sailing down the Cydnus. 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... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1853 - 420 pages
...DESCRIPTION OF CLEOPATRA SAILING DOWN THS CYDNUS. 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... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1853 - 444 pages
...oblivion rak'd. HV ii. 4. CLEOPATRA, SAILING. 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... | |
 | Mrs. Octavius Freire Owen Owen - Queens - 1854 - 452 pages
...better than give the picture drawn of this historical scene by the hand of our greatest poet : — " The barge she sat in, like a burnished throne, Burned...stroke, and .made The water, which they beat, to follow faster, As amoroua of their strokes. For her own person, It beggared all description : she did lie... | |
 | Robert Charles Winthrop - Art and science - 1854 - 56 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. Octavius Freire Owen Owen - Queens - 1854 - 426 pages
...scene by the hand of our greatest poet : — " 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... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1855 - 630 pages
...devis'd well for her. Eno. I will tell you : ls 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... | |
 | Edward Morse - 1855 - 156 pages
...that exquisite picture drawn by Shakspeare : — "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... | |
 | George William Curtis - Egypt - 1856 - 384 pages
...the queen's barge, sumptuously gliding upon the golden gleam ? Behold it, dreamer, where it comes : " 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 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... 
