 | Alan England - 1981 - 268 pàgines
...them. Meanwhile Antony, looking out into the audience at the imagined barge approaching him, says, The barge she sat in, like a burnish'd throne Burn'd...beat to follow faster, As amorous of their strokes. The chorus then, using their rehearsed movements and words, offer Antony different temptations. He... | |
 | Stanley B. Marrow - 1986 - 292 pàgines
...up the river in full regalia, "O'er-picturing that Venus where we see/ The fancy out-work nature": The barge she sat in, like a burnish'd throne Burn'd...beat to follow faster, As amorous of their strokes (Antony and Cleopatra II. 2). unkind, reaction of a Parisian compelled to serve as consul today in... | |
 | William Wilson Hunter - 1991 - 422 pàgines
...^nobarbus' description of Cleopatra's galley : — " The barge she sat in, like a burnished throne, Burnt on the water; the poop was beaten gold: Purple the...with them. The oars were silver, Which to the tune of lutes kept stroke." " You see," said Jeffrey, " that tlwugh the sails were purple and the oars silver,... | |
 | Alvin B. Kernan - 1997 - 294 pàgines
...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... | |
 | Pauline Kiernan - 1998 - 236 pàgines
...purple, and the owres of silver, which kept stroke rowing after the sounde of the musicke of flutes ..." The barge she sat in, like a burnish'd throne Burn'd...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... | |
 | Gordon Williams - 1996 - 298 pàgines
...by 'pretty dimpled boys, like smiling Cupids': 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. (II.ii.198) In those last lines he figures what he takes to be Antony's masochistic obsession, which... | |
 | Robert Andrews - 1997 - 666 pàgines
...(1670, trans. 1688), rev. A.). Krailsheimer (1966). 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. WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE, (1564-1616) British dramatist, poet. Enobarbus, in Antony and Cleopatra, act 2,... | |
 | Thomas Stearns Eliot - 1996 - 476 pàgines
...compare Antony and Cleopatra, II ii 195—2.00: The barge she sat in, like a burnished throne, Burned on the water. The poop was beaten gold; Purple the...and made The water which they beat to follow faster, TSE has 'golden' (7), 'beat' (5), and 'faster' (24). He later refashioned Enobarbus's speech, both... | |
 | Barry Strauss - 2001 - 180 pàgines
...(Ezekiel 27:6) Now, here is Shakespeare's portrait of Cleopatra on her galley, seducing Mark Antony: The barge she sat in, like a burnish'd throne, Burn'd...beat to follow faster, As amorous of their strokes. (Antony and Cleopatra, II, ii) The Romans enjoyed boat races and also mock naval battles. The emperor... | |
 | Peter Quennell, Hamish Johnson - 2002 - 246 pàgines
.... In Shakespeare's hands this comparatively prosaic passage undergoes a miraculous transformation : The barge she sat in, like a burnish'd throne, Burn'd...so perfumed that The winds were love-sick with them . . . Her gentlewomen, like the Nereides, So many mermaids tended her i' th' eyes. And made their bends... | |
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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... 
