 | Allan Bloom - 2000 - 172 pages
...description of Cleopatra herself, but are both delighted and frustrated by: For her own person, It beggar'd all description: she did lie In her pavilion — cloth...that Venus where we see The fancy outwork nature. (II. ii. 1 97-201 ) Shakespeare refuses the temptation to do what his art cannot do well and instead... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 2000 - 404 pages
...For her own person, lt beggared all description: she did lie 205 ln her pavilion — cloth-of-gold of tissue — O'er-picturing that Venus where we see...out-work nature; on each side her Stood pretty, dimpled boys, like smiling Cupids, With divers-coloured fans, whose wind did seem 210 To glow the delicate... | |
 | Theodore Vrettos - 2010 - 290 pages
...strokes. For her own person, It beggar'd all description: she did lie In her pavilion — cloth-of-gold of tissue — O'er-picturing that Venus where we see...outwork nature: on each side her Stood pretty dimpled boys, like smiling Cupids, With divers-color'dfans, whose wind did seem To glow delicate cheeks which... | |
 | Millicent Bell - 2002 - 316 pages
...water which they beat to follow faster, As amorous of their strokes. For her own person, It beggared all description: she did lie In her pavilion — cloth...outwork nature. On each side her Stood pretty dimpled boys, like smiling Cupids, With divers-coloured fans, whose wind did seem To glow the delicate cheeks... | |
 | Stanley Wells - 2003 - 494 pages
...water which they beat to follow faster, As amorous of their strokes. For her own person. It beggared all description. She did lie In her pavilion - cloth...outwork nature. On each side her Stood pretty dimpled boys, like smiling Cupids. With divers-coloured fans whose wind did seem To glow the delicate cheeks... | |
 | Claire McEachern - 2002 - 310 pages
...water which they beat to follow faster, As amorous of their strokes. For her own person, It beggared all description: she did lie In her pavilion - cloth...that Venus where we see The fancy outwork nature. (2.2.201-11) Enobarbus is describing a privileged moment here - Antony's first sight of the Egyptian... | |
 | George Wilson Knight - 2002 - 396 pages
...strokes. For her own person, It beggar'd all description: she did lie In her pavilion — cloth-of-gold of tissue — O'er-picturing that Venus where we see...outwork nature: on each side her Stood pretty dimpled boys, like smiling Cupids, With divers-colour'd fans, whose wind did seem To glow the delicate cheeks... | |
 | Alison Ross, Jen Greatrex - 2001 - 424 pages
...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...outwork nature. On each side her Stood pretty dimpled boys, like smiling Cupids, With divers-colour'd fans, whose wind did seem To glow the delicate cheeks... | |
 | Frederick Kiefer - 2003 - 378 pages
...description of Cleopatra, spoken by the gruff soldier Enobarbus, is similarly lacking in specificity: she did lie In her pavilion - cloth of gold, of tissue...that Venus where we see The fancy outwork nature. (2.2.198-201) If Shakespeare's knowledge of ancient representations is unclear, we can nevertheless... | |
 | Clyde E. Fant, Mitchell G. Reddish - 2003 - 429 pages
...strokes. For her own person, It beggar'd all description: she did lie In her pavilion — cloth-of-gold of tissue — O'er-picturing that Venus where we see...outwork nature: on each side her Stood pretty dimpled boys, like smiling Cupids, With divers-colour'd fans. (Antony and Cleopatra, Act 2, Scene 2) Under... | |
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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 which "they beat to follow faster, As amorous of their strokes. For her own person, It... 
