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 and Poems of William Shakspeare - Page 235by William Shakespeare - 1821Full view - About this book
| 1831 - 356 pages
...burnish'd throne, Burn'tl 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...of tissue,) O'erpicturing that Venus, where we see The fancy outwork nature : on each side her Stood pretty dimpled boys, like smiling Cupids, With divers... | |
| 1833 - 304 pages
...burnish'd throne, BurnM 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...of tissue,) O'erpicturing that Venus, where we see The fancy outwork nature : on each side her Stood pretty dimpled boys, like smiling Cupids, With divers... | |
| English literature - 1834 - 590 pages
...throne, Burned on tho 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, aud made The water, which thev beat, to follow faster, As amorous of their strokes. For her own person,... | |
| Robert Plumer Ward - 1836 - 746 pages
...Burnt on the water : the poop was beaten gold. Purple the sails, and so perfumed that The winds grew love-sick with them. The oars were silver, Which to...of tissue), O'erpicturing that Venus, where we see The fancy outwork nature : on each side her Stood pretty dimpled boys, like smiling Cupids, With divers... | |
| William Shakespeare - 1836 - 534 pages
...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...As amorous of their strokes. For her own person, It beggared all description ; she did lie In her pavilion, (cloth of gold, of tissue,) O'er-picturing... | |
| William Shakespeare - 1836 - 646 pages
...throne,* Burn'd on the water: the poop was beaten gold ; Purple the sails, and so perfumed, that The winde 1 * Lest I be thought too willing to fbrue.t benefit*, I muat barely return him thanks, and then I... | |
| Samuel Sharpe - Egypt - 1838 - 236 pages
...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...of tissue, O'er-picturing that Venus, where we see The fancy outwork nature ; on each side her Stood pretty dimpled boys, like smiling Cupids, With divers-coloured... | |
| William Shakespeare - 1838 - 522 pages
...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...of tissue,) O'er-picturing that Venus, where we see The fancy out-work nature : on each side her, Stood pretty dimpled boys, like smiling Cupids, With... | |
| Charles Fenno Hoffman, Timothy Flint, Lewis Gaylord Clark, Kinahan Cornwallis, John Holmes Agnew - American periodicals - 1838 - 590 pages
...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...strokes. For her own person, It beggard all description. At the helm, A seeming mermaid steers ; the silken tackle Swell with the touches of those flower-soft... | |
| Frederick Marryat - 1838 - 430 pages
...throne, Burn'd on the water — the poop was beaten gold j Purple the sails, and so perfumed, that The winds were love-sick with them ; the oars were...For her own person, It beggar'd all description." " Come, I'll be blowed but we've had enough of that, so just shut your pan," said one of the women,... | |
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