 | William Shakespeare - 1851 - 586 pages
...she first met Hark Antony, she pursed up his heart upon the river of Cidnus. Agr. There she appearM indeed; or my reporter devised well for her. Eno....O'erpicturing that Venus, where we see. The fancy outwork nature : on each side her, Stood pretty dimpled boys, like smiling Cupids, With diverse-colour'd... | |
 | 1851 - 496 pages
...Acidale. WILLIAM SHAKSPEARE. BOKN, 1564; DIED, 1616. DESCRIPTION OF CLEOPATRA SAILING DOWN THE CYDNUS. THE barge she sat in, like a burnish'd throne, Burn'd...tissue), O'erpicturing that Venus, where we see The fancy out-work nature : on each side her, Stood pretty, dimpled boys, like smiling Cupids, With diverse colour'd... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1851 - 462 pages
...worm-holes of long vanish'd days, Nor from the dust of old oblivion rak'd. HF ii. 4. CLEOPATRA, SAILING. The barge she sat in, like a burnish'd throne, Burn'd...O'er-picturing that Venus, where we see, The fancy out-work nature ; on each side her, Stood pretty dimpled boys, like smiling Cupids, With diverse-colour'd... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1851 - 556 pages
...reporter devised well for her. Eno. I will tell you: The barge she sat in like a burnished throne, Burned on the water: the poop was beaten gold ; Purple the...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'er-picturing that... | |
 | Jonathan Bate - 1998 - 420 pages
...sails, and so perfumed that The winds were love-sick with mem. The oars were silver, Which to the mne of flutes kept stroke, and made The water which they...As amorous of their strokes. For her own person, It beggared all description. She did lulu her pavilion - cloth of gold, of tissue O'er-picmring that Venus... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1999 - 202 pages
...well for her. ENOBARBUS I will tell you. 200 The barge she sat in, like a burnished throne, Burned on the water. The poop was beaten gold; Purple the...As amorous of their strokes. For her own person, It beggared all description. She did lie In her pavilion, cloth-of-gold of tissue, 209 O'erpicturing that... | |
 | Frederick Turner - 1999 - 232 pages
...Plutarch of Chaeronea) And here is Shakespeare: The barge she sat in, like a burnished throne, Burned on the water: the poop was beaten gold; Purple the...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'erpicturing that... | |
 | Simon Sebag Montefiore - 2001 - 692 pages
...the Empress embarked on her galley in the most luxurious fleet ever seen on a great river. CLEOPATRA The barge she sat in, like a burnish'd throne, Burn'd...strokes. For her own person, It beggar'd all description . . . William Shakespeare, Antony and Cleopatra At midday on 1.2. April 1787, Catherine, Potemkin and... | |
 | Rosemary Manning - 2000 - 196 pages
...which opened off one end of it. 'The barge she sat in,' began Chief, 'I wonder if I can remember it ... "The barge she sat in, like a burnish'd throne, Burn'd...strokes. For her own person, It beggar'd all description ..." ' Her senses held by the poetry, Rachel's truant mind played with the tempting hope that she would... | |
 | Robert S. Miola - 2000 - 206 pages
...writers. Witness Enobarbus' description of Cleopatra: The barge she sat in, like a burnished throne Burned on the water. The poop was beaten gold; Purple the...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'er-picturing... | |
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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... 
