 | FRANCIS L. HAWKS, D.D., LL.D. - 1850
...picture of the past, when Cleopatra ruled, and " The barge she sat in, like a burnished throne Burned on the water : the poop was beaten gold, Purple the...winds were lovesick with them ; the oars were silver." ANTONY AND CLEOPATRA. Alexandria, whether it be Greek, Roman, Christian or Patriarchal, Saracenic,... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1803 - 490 pages
...Cydnus. Agr. There she appeared indeed ; or my reporter devised well for her. Eno. I will tell you : The barge she sat in, like a burnish'd throne, Burn'd...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 of gold, of tissue,)... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1804 - 648 pages
...Cydnus. Agr. There she appear'd indeed; or my reporter devis'd well for her. Eno. I will tell you: The barge she sat in, like a burnish'd throne, Burn'd...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 of gold, of tissue,)... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1805 - 520 pages
...well for her. Eno. When she first met Mark Antony, she pursed up his heart, upon the river of Cydnus. The barge she sat in, like a burnish'd throne, Burn'd...The winds were love-sick with them: the oars were Eno. I will tell you: silver; Which to the tune of flutes kept stroke, and made The water, which they... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1805 - 502 pages
...Cydnus. Agr. There she appeared indeed; or my reporter devised well for her. £720. I will tell you : The barge she sat in, like a burnish'd throne, Burn'd...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... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1806 - 368 pages
...Cydnus. Agr. There she appear'd indeed; or my reporter devis'd well for her. Eno. I will tell you : The barge she sat in, like a burnish'd throne, Burn'd...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 of gold, of tissue,)... | |
 | English poetry - 1806 - 408 pages
...poop was beaten gold, Purple the sails, and so perfumed, that The winds were love-sick with them : th' oars were silver, Which to the tune of flutes kept...beat, to follow faster, As amorous of their strokes. For her own person, It beggar'cl all description ; she did lie In her pavilion, cloth of gold, of tissue,... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1807 - 410 pages
...heart, upon the river of Cydnus. Agr. There she appeared indeed ; or my reporter devised well for her. Burn'd on the water: the poop was beaten gold ; Purple...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 of gold, of tissue,)... | |
 | Mrs. Inchbald - English drama - 1808 - 454 pages
...Devis'd well for her. Thyr. I will tell you, sir. 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. For her own person, It beggar'd all description: she did lie In her pavilion (cloth of gold, of tissue),... | |
 | John Dryden - English literature - 1808 - 436 pages
...the Cydnus. It is thus given in Shakespeare : 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. For her own person, It beggared all description : she did lie In her pavilion (cloth of gold, of tissue),... | |
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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... 
