 | George Augustus Sala - 1869 - 498 pàgines
...up the good old passage in Antony and Cleopatra and read : " The barge he sat in. like a burnish -d throne, Burn'd on the water : the poop was beaten...made The water which they beat to follow faster." You will see that I have taken the liberty of substituting " he" for " she ;" and indeed I cannot,... | |
 | Howard Hopley - 1869 - 336 pàgines
...have been but a glorified dahabeeyah : — " The barge she sat in, like a burnished throne, Burned on the water : the poop was beaten gold. Purple the...silver, Which to the tune of flutes kept stroke." Very different, however, was the boat we now finally lighted on and chose. In these sterner days we... | |
 | Henry Coleman Folkard - 1870 - 522 pàgines
...in a similar manner to those of the Chinese fast-boats, already described. CHINESE FLOWER BOATS. ' The barge she sat in, like a burnish'd throne, Burn'd...beat, to follow faster, As amorous of their strokes.' SHAKSPEAHK. The Chinese flower boats, although the greatest ornaments to be seen on the rivers of that... | |
 | Marcius Willson - 1870 - 382 pàgines
...SHAKSPEABE'S Antony and Cleopatra, Act II., Scene 2. 1 . The barge she sat in, like a burnished throne, Burned on the water : the poop was beaten gold : Purple the...made The water, which they beat, to follow faster, AB amorou8 of their strokes. 2. For her own person — It beggar'd all description : she did lie In... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1871 - 620 pàgines
...: The barge she sat'in, like a burnish'd throne,* Burn'd on the water : the poop was beaten gold j Purple the sails, and so perfumed, that The winds...made The water, which they beat, to follow faster, 1 ' Lest I be thought too willing to forget benefits, I must barely return him thanks, and then I will... | |
 | Marcius Willson - 1872 - 382 pàgines
...SHAKBPEARE'S Antony and Cleopatra, Act IL, Scene 2. 1 . 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. 2. For her own person — It beggar'd all description : she did lie In her pavilion (cloth of gold,... | |
 | George Fyler Townsend - 1872 - 318 pàgines
...Egypt, upon the Cydnus, " when first she saw Marc Antony " — " The barge slie sat in, like a burnished throne Burn'd on the water : the poop was beaten gold...oars were silver, Which to the tune of flutes kept time." * There were other vessels of war in use at this period of a smaller bnild ; these were named... | |
 | 1873 - 594 pàgines
...century his posterity were peers. Sic itur <ul attra. Purple the Bails, and so perfumed that The winda were love-sick with them : the oars were silver ;...beat to follow faster, As amorous of their strokes. From the barge A strange invisible perfume hits the sense Of the adjacent wharfs.' ' She ' must stand... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1874 - 584 pàgines
...like snow in the glance of the Lord! CLEOPATRA. THE barge she sat in, like a burnished throne, Burned on the water: the poop was beaten gold, Purple the...the oars were silver: Which to the tune of flutes kepi stroke, and made The water, which they beat, to follow faster, As amorous of their strokes. For... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1874 - 646 pàgines
...Cydnus. Agr. There she appeared indeed ; or my reporter devised well for her. . _ Eno. I will tell yon. y eye, And the rank poison of the 7 ½ P 엏 "> 1874 Bickers"- love -sick with them; the oars were silver, Which to the tune of flutes kept stroke, and made The water,... | |
| |
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... 
