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A General Collection of Voyages and Travels from the Discovery of America to ... - Page 309
by William Fordyce Mavor - 1809
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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
...splendor by which 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 sails, and so perfumed, that The winds were love-sick with them ; the oars were silver, Which to the tune of flutes...
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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 sails, and so perfumed, that The winds were love-sick with them; the oars were silver, Which to the tune of flutes...
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The wisdom and genius of Shakspeare: comprising moral philosophy ...

William Shakespeare - 1838 - 484 pages
...1 Such is the general character of music. 130 The barge she sat in, like a burnish'd throne, Bura'd on the water; the poop was beaten gold; Purple the sails, and so perfumed, that [silver; The winds were love-sick with them: the oars were Which to the tune of flutes...
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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 sails, and so perfumed, that The winds were love-sick with them : the oars were silver ; Which to the tune of flutes...
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American Monthly Knickerbocker, Volume 11

1838 - 588 pages
...splendor by which 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 Fails, and so perfumed, that The winds were love-sick with them ; the oars were silver, Which to the...
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The Wisdom and Genius of Shakespeare: Comprising Moral Philosophy ...

William Shakespeare, Thomas Price - 1839 - 480 pages
...quest of another. Old copy reads chases. 130 The barge ehe sat in, like a burnish'd throne, Burn'd on the water ; the poop was beaten gold ; Purple the sails, and so perfumed, that [silver ; The winds were love-sick with them: the oars were Which to the tune of flutes...
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The juvenaile poetical library; selected from the works of modern British ...

Priscilla Maden Watts - 1839 - 286 pages
...a-wooing. THE EMBARKATION OF CLEOPATRA. BY TK HERVEV. The barge she sat in, like a burnished throne, Burned 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...
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The Young Lady's Reader

Louisa Caroline Tuthill - English language - 1839 - 482 pages
...HYPERBOLE. CLEOPATRA UPON THE CYDNUS.— SHAKSPEARE. The barge she sat in, like a burnished throne, Burned on the water : the poop was beaten gold : Purple the sails, and so perfumed that The winds were lovesick with them : the oars were silver; Which to the tune of flutes...
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Shakspearian Readings: Selected and Adapted for Young Persons and Others

William Shakespeare, Benjamin Humphrey Smart - English drama - 1839 - 490 pages
...skill poetical. [Enobarbus.] 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 sails, and so perfumed, that [silver, The winds were love-sick with them: the' oars were Which, to the sound of flutes...
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Commentaries on the Historical Plays of Shakspeare, Volume 2

Thomas Peregrine Courtenay - Historical drama, English - 1840 - 354 pages
...is almost verbatim from Antony's biographer ; — " Enobarbus. The barge she sat in, like aburnish'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 ; the oars were silver ; Which to the tune of flutes...
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