 | 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...As amorous of their strokes. For her own person, It beggar'd all description : she did lie In her pavilion (cloth of gold of tissue), O'erpicturing that... | |
 | 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....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 In her pavilion... | |
 | Peggy Muñoz Simonds - Art and literature - 1992 - 412 pages
...was well known to readers of Plutarch's Lives: The barge she sat in, like a burnish 'd throne, Burnt on the water. The poop was beaten gold, Purple the...As amorous of their strokes. For her own person, It beggar'd all description: she did lie In her pavilion — cloth of gold, of tissue — O'er-picturing... | |
 | William Shakespeare - Drama - 1993 - 166 pages
...or my reporter devised well for her. ENOBARB. I will tell you. The barge she sat in, like a burnisht throne, Burned on the water: the poop was beaten gold;...faster, As amorous of their strokes. For her own person, 200 It beggared all description. She did lie In her pavilion, cloth-of-gold, of tissue, O'er-picturing... | |
 | Jennifer Mulherin, Abigail Frost - Juvenile Nonfiction - 1993 - 40 pages
...a golden barge. Enobarbus describes Cleopatra The barge she sat in, like a burnish'd throne, Bum'd on the water; the poop was beaten gold, Purple the...As amorous of their strokes. For her own person, It beggar'd all description; she did lie In her pavilion, - cloth-of-gold of tissue, O'er-picturing that... | |
 | Alvin B. Kernan - Drama - 1997 - 294 pages
...wealth, in her elegance becomes transcendence: The barge she sat in, like a burnish'd throne, Burnt on the water. The poop was beaten gold, Purple the...beat to follow faster, As amorous of their strokes. (2.2.191) Sex, drink, idleness, luxury, waste, and other palace vices are transformed by language like... | |
 | Gordon Williams - Literary Criticism - 1996 - 298 pages
...describes this floating masque, with Venus-Cleopatra fanned by 'pretty dimpled boys, like smiling Cupids': The barge she sat in, like a burnished throne Burned...beat to follow faster, As amorous of their strokes. (II.ii.198) In those last lines he figures what he takes to be Antony's masochistic obsession, which... | |
 | M. G. Balme, James Morwood - Foreign Language Study - 1996 - 232 pages
...Cleopatra as she arrived on her elaborate barge: The barge she sat in, like a burnish'd throne, Burn'd on the water; the poop was beaten gold, Purple the...As amorous of their strokes. For her own person, It beggar'd all description; she did lie In her pavilion - cloth-of-gold of tissue -, O'er-picturing that... | |
 | Pauline Kiernan - Drama - 1998 - 236 pages
...after the sounde of the musicke of flutes ..." The barge she sat in, like a burnish'd throne Burn'd on the water: the poop was beaten gold; Purple the...beat to follow faster, As amorous of their strokes . . . (II. ii. 191-7) Shakespeare's Cleopatra is a biological magnet that draws all the elements of... | |
 | Robert Andrews - Language Arts & Disciplines - 1997 - 666 pages
...413, ed. Krailsheimer; no. 162, ed. Brunschvicg (1670, trans. 1688), rev. A.). Krailsheimer (1966). The barge she sat in, like a burnished throne Burned...beat to follow faster, As amorous of their strokes. WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE, (1564-1616) British dramatist, poet. Enobarbus, in Antony and Cleopatra, act 2,... | |
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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... 
