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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,... "
A cyclopædia of poetical quotations, arranged by H.G. Adams - Page 80
by Cyclopaedia - 1853 - 733 pages
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Julius Caesar. Antony and Cleopatra. Cymbeline. Titus Andronicus. Pericles

William Shakespeare - 1848 - 532 pages
...she first met Mark Antony, she pursed up his heart upon the river of Cydnus. 8 Eno. I will tell you: The barge she sat in like a burnished throne, Burned...lovesick with them; the oars were silver; Which to the tune of flutes kept stroke, and made The water, which they beat, to follow faster, As amorous of their...
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New Monthly Magazine, and Universal Register, Volume 82

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...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 her pavilion (cloth...
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The New Monthly Magazine and Humorist

English literature - 1848 - 556 pages
...too closely upon dangerous and " holy ground." The barge she sat in, like a burnish'd throne, Beam'd on the water; the poop was beaten gold; Purple the...love-sick with them — the oars were silver, Which to the tune of flutes kept stroke— and made The water which they beat to follow faster, As amorous of their...
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The Monuments of Egypt: Or, Egypt a Witness for the Bible...

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,...
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Christian Examiner and Theological Review

Theology - 1850 - 538 pages
...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...lovesick with them; the oars were silver; Which to the lime of flutes kept stroke, and made The water which they beat to follow faster, As amorous of their...
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Lands of the Moslem: A Narrative of Oriental Travel

Howard Crosby - Islam - 1851 - 406 pages
...life by bathing in the cold waters of the Cydnus, and here Cleopatra captivated the heart of Antony. " The barge she sat in, like a burnished throne Burned...love-sick with them ; the oars were silver, Which to the tune of flutes kept stroke, and made The water, which they beat, to follow faster, As amorous of their...
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The Dramatic Works of William Shakspeare: Julius Caesar. Antony and ...

William Shakespeare - 1851 - 530 pages
...Cydnus.2 Agr. There she appeared, indeed; or my reporter devised well for her. Eno. I will tell you : The barge she sat in like a burnished throne, Burned...lovesick with them ; the oars were silver ; Which to the tune of flutes kept stroke, and made The water, which they beat, to follow faster, As amorous of their...
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The dramatic (poetical) works of William Shakspeare; illustr ..., Volume 6

William Shakespeare - 1851 - 556 pages
...to her. Agr. There she appeared, indeed; or my reporter devised well for her. Eno. I will tell you: The barge she sat in like a burnished throne, Burned...lovesick with them; the oars were silver; Which to the tune of flutes kept stroke, and made The water, which they beat, to follow faster, As amorous of their...
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The Dramatic Works of William Shakespeare: With a Life of the Poet, and ...

William Shakespeare - 1851 - 712 pages
...heart upon the river of Cydnus. Agr. There she appeared, indeed ; or my reporter devised well for her. Burned on the water : the poop was beaten gold ; Purple...lovesick with them ; the oars were silver ; "Which to the tune of flutes kept stroke, and made The water, which they beat, to follow faster, As amorous of their...
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The dramatic works of William Shakspeare, from the text ..., Part 50, Volume 4

William Shakespeare - 1851 - 586 pages
...devised well for her. Eno. 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...love-sick with them : the oars were silver ; Which to the tune of flutes kept stroke, and made The water, which they beat, to follow faster, As amorous of their...
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