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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... "
With the poets: a selection of English poetry. [Ed.] by F.W. Farrar - Page 19
by Frederic William Farrar - 1883 - 412 pages
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The Plays of William Shakspeare: Accurately Printed from the Text ..., Volume 7

William Shakespeare - 1847 - 568 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...made The water, which they beat, to follow faster, ' be square to her.] ie if report quadrates with her, or suits with her merits. VOL. vn. K As amorous...
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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...As amorous of their strokes. For her own person, It beggnr'd all description — she did lie In her pavilion (cloth of gold of tissue,} O'er picturing...
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Selections from the British Poets: Chronologically Arranged from Chaucer to ...

English poetry - 1851 - 496 pages
...DESCRIPTION OF CLEOPATRA SAILING DOWN THE CYDNUS. 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...
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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...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...
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Lands of the Moslem: A Narrative of Oriental Travel

Howard Crosby - Islam - 1851 - 406 pages
...here Cleopatra captivated the heart of Antony. " The barge she sat in, like a burnished throne Burned on the water ; the poop was beaten gold, Purple the...beat, to follow faster, As amorous of their strokes." This place is probably the Tarshish to which Jonah attempted to flee ; but its crowning glory, in the...
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The Life and Beauties of Shakespeare: Comprising Careful Selections from ...

William Shakespeare - 1851 - 408 pages
...beaten gold; Purple the sails, and so perfumed, that The winds were love-sick with them: the oars wera silver; Which to the tune of flutes kept stroke, and...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...
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The Comedies, Histories, Tragedies, and Poems of William Shakspere ...

William Shakespeare - 1852 - 708 pages
...or my reporter devised well for her. ENO. I will tell you : The barge she sat in, like a burnish'd throne, Burnt on the water : the poop was beaten gold...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...
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The Works of William Shakspeare, Volume 4

William Shakespeare - 1852 - 570 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...As amorous of their strokes. For her own person, It beggarM all description : she did lie In her pavilion (cloth of gold, of tissue), O'erpicturing that...
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Dramatic Works: From the Text of Johnson, Stevens and Reed; with ..., Volume 4

William Shakespeare - 1852 - 574 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...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...
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Antony and Cleopatra

William Shakespeare - Drama - 1993 - 166 pages
...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; Purple the...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...
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