 | Samuel Griswold Goodrich - Africa - 1844 - 352 pages
...may be pleased to see it in the coloring of Shakspeare, closely copied from the draft of Plutarch. " The barge she sat in like a burnished throne Burned...silver, Which to the tune of flutes kept stroke." " For her own person, It beggared all description : she did lie In her pavilion, (cloth of gold, of... | |
 | John Holmes Agnew, Walter Hilliard Bidwell - 1845 - 604 pages
...SHAKSPEARE'S ANTONY AND CLEOPATRA. Bee Plato. Tu v harge she sat in, like a burnish'd throne, Burn'd on the water : the poop was beaten gold ; Purple the...that The winds were lovesick with them : the oars Which to the tune of flutes kept etroke, and made The water, which they beat, to follow faster, As... | |
 | Encyclopaedia - 1845 - 850 pages
...Purple the sailes ; and so perfumed that The winde« were loue-sicke With them, the owcrs were eiluer, Which to the tune of flutes kept stroke, and made The water which they beatc, to follow faster ; As amorous of their strokes. SkaJapeare. ¿iutony and Cleopatra, fol. 347.... | |
 | Lord Henry Home Kames - Criticism - 1847 - 516 pages
...Cleopatra on shipboard, appears to me exceptionable: The barge she eat 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. 2. The winds in... | |
 | Thomas Campbell, Samuel Carter Hall, Edward Bulwer Lytton Baron Lytton, Theodore Edward Hook, Thomas Hood, William Harrison Ainsworth, William Ainsworth - 1848 - 564 pages
...The barge she sat in, like a burnish'd throne, Beam'd on the water; the poop was beaten gold; rurple the sails, and so perfumed, that The winds were love-sick with them — the oars were silver, Which to the time of flutes kept stroke— and made The water which they beat to follow faster, As amorous of their... | |
 | Francis Lister Hawks - Bible - 1850 - 462 pages
...was, out of the ruins. I amused my fancy with the picture of the past, when Cleopatra ruled, and " The barge she sat in, like a burnished throne Burned...winds were lovesick with them ; the oars were silver." ANTONY AND CLEOPATKA. Alexandria, whether it be Greek, Roman, Christian or Patriarchal, Saracenic,... | |
 | Theology - 1850 - 538 pages
...master's hand. "CLEOPATRA. (AFTER DAMBY'S PICTT/RE OF THE EGYPTIAN QUEEN EMBARKIKO ON THE CYDNOS.) " 'The barge she sat in, like a burnished throne Burned on the water : the poop wan beaten gold ; Purple the sails, and so perfumed that The winds were lovesick with them; the oars... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1851 - 408 pages
...DESCRIPTION OF CLEOPATRA SAILING DOWN THE CYDNUS. The barge she sat in, like a burnish'd throne, fiurn'd on the water: the poop was beaten gold; Purple the...that The winds were love-sick with them: the oars wera silver; Which to the tune of flutes kept stroke, and made The water which they beat, to follow... | |
 | George William Curtis - Egypt - 1851 - 350 pages
...barge, sumptuously sliding upon the golden gleam ? Behold it, dreamer, where it comes : " The barge ahe sat in like a burnished throne, Burned on the water : the poop was beaten gold, L* Purple the sails, and so perfumed, that The winds were love-eick with them : the oars were silver,... | |
 | George William Curtis - 1851 - 354 pages
...the queen's barge, sumptuously sliding upon the golden gleam ? Behold it, dreamer, where it comes : " The barge she sat in like a burnished throne, Burned on the water : the poop vas beaten gold, T* •Purple the sails, and so perfumed, that The winds were love-sick with them :... | |
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Burn'd on the water: the poop was beaten gold; Purple the sails, and so perfumed that The winds were love-sick with them... 
