| William Shakespeare - 1853 - 608 pagini
...should have power to steal both his, And leave itself unfurnish'd. 9 — iii. 2. 184. Cleopatra's barge. The barge she sat in, like a burnish'd throne, Burn'd...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,... | |
| William Shakespeare - 1853 - 444 pagini
...worm-holes of long vanish'd days, Nor from the dust of old oblivion rak'd. HV ii. 4. CLEOPATRA, SAILING. The barge she sat in, like a burnish'd throne, Burn'd...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,... | |
| Mrs. Octavius Freire Owen Owen - 1854 - 426 pagini
...better than give the picture drawn of this historical scene by the hand of our greatest poet : — " The barge she sat in, like a burnish'd throne, Burn'd...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,... | |
| Publius Vergilius Maro - 1855 - 474 pagini
...thinking of Shakspeare's infinitely beautiful description of Cleopatra's first visit to Antony : " The barge she sat in, like a burnish'd throne, Burn'd...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,... | |
| William Shakespeare - 1855 - 630 pagini
...Cydnus. Agr. There she appear'd indeed, or my reporter devis'd well for her. Eno. I will tell you : ls The barge she sat in, like a burnish'd throne, Burn'd...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 kept stroke,... | |
| Edward Morse - 1855 - 156 pagini
...though no eastern odours Jill d the air ? Alluding to that exquisite picture drawn by Shakspeare : — "The barge she sat in like a burnish'd throne Burn'd...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,... | |
| William Shakespeare - 1855 - 806 pagini
...Cydnus. Agr. There she appeared 43 indeed , or my reporter devised well for her. Eno. I will tell you. The barge she sat in, like a burnish'd throne, Burn'd...beaten gold; Purple the sails, and so perfumed, that The winds were love-sick with them:4* the oars were silver; Which to the tune of flutes kept stroke,... | |
| Sarah Josepha Buell Hale - 1855 - 610 pagini
...: Your mariners are muleteers, reapers, people lugross'd by swift impress. *. Antony and Cleopatra. The barge she sat in, like a burnish'd throne, Burn'd...beaten gold ; Purple the sails, and so perfumed, that The winds were love-siek with them : the oars were silver, Whieh to the tune of flutes kept stroke,... | |
| William Shakespeare - 1857 - 630 pagini
...; Purple the sails, and so perfumed that The winds were lovesick with them : the oars were silver ; Which to the tune of flutes kept stroke, and made...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'crpicturing that... | |
| William Shakespeare - 1857 - 728 pagini
...Cydnus. Agr. There she appeared indeed ; or my reporter devised well for her. Eno. I will tell you. The barge she sat in, like a burnish'd throne, Burn'd...beaten gold ; Purple the sails, and so perfumed that The winds were love-sick with them ; (37) the oars were silver, Which to the tune of flutes kept stroke,... | |
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