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,... King Lear: A Tragedy in Five Acts - Page 3by William Shakespeare - 1808 - 78 pagesFull view - About this book
| C J Ackerley - Literary Criticism - 2007 - 97 pages
...beaten gold; Purple the sail, and so perfumed that The winds were love-sick with them; the oars were silver, Which to the tune of flutes kept stroke, and...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, O'erpicturing that... | |
| Robert A. Logan - Literary Criticism - 2007 - 276 pages
...auditory, and rhythmic effects — Cleopatra's trip down the Cydnus to meet Antony: . . . the oars were silver, Which to the tune of flutes kept stroke, and...beat to follow faster, As amorous of their strokes. (Ant., II, ii, 204-7) Both passages contain oars and use the pathetic fallacy to suggest the harmony... | |
| Lauren Willig - Fiction - 2008 - 412 pages
...The winds were love-sic^ with them; the oars were silver, Which io the tune of flutes \ept strokf, and made The water which they beat to follow faster,...As amorous of their strokes. For her own person, It beggar' d all description. . . . — William Shakespeare, Antony and Cleopatra, II, ii Mary lounged... | |
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