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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... "
With the poets: a selection of English poetry. [Ed.] by F.W. Farrar - Page 19
by Frederic William Farrar - 1883 - 412 pages
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The Metropolitan, Volume 10

English literature - 1834 - 590 pages
...speaker, who immediately recommenced — " The barge she sat in, like a burnished throne, Burned on tho water — the poop was beaten gold : Purple the sails,...silver ; Which to the tune of flutes kept stroke, aud made The water, which thev beat, to follow faster, As amorous of their strokes. For her own person,...
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The Book of Familiar Quotations: Being a Collection of Popular Extracts and ...

Quotations, English - 1871 - 340 pages
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The Knickerbocker: Or, New-York Monthly Magazine, Volume 11

Charles Fenno Hoffman, Timothy Flint, Lewis Gaylord Clark, Kinahan Cornwallis, John Holmes Agnew - American periodicals - 1838 - 590 pages
...voyages, harmonizes with the gorgeous splendor by which her court and person were always surrounded. ' The barge she sat in, like a burnished throne, Burnt...As amorous of their strokes. For her own person, It beggard all description. At the helm, A seeming mermaid steers ; the silken tackle Swell with the touches...
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The Dramatic Works of William Shakspeare, Volume 2

William Shakespeare - 1838 - 522 pages
...devised well for her. /..'но. I will tell you : The barge she 6at in, like a burnish'd throne, Burn'd on the water : the poop was beaten gold ; Purple the...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'er-picturing that...
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The History of Egypt Under the Ptolemies

Samuel Sharpe - Egypt - 1838 - 246 pages
...entered the river Cydnus in the Egyptian fleet: The barge she sat in, like a burnish'd throne, Burn'd on the water: the poop was beaten gold, Purple the...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'er-picturing that...
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Jacob Faithful

Frederick Marryat - 1838 - 430 pages
...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...As amorous of their strokes. For her own person, It beggar'd all description." " Come, I'll be blowed but we've had enough of that, so just shut your pan,"...
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The wisdom and genius of Shakspeare: comprising moral philosophy ...

William Shakespeare - 1838 - 484 pages
...Purple the sails, and so perfumed, that [silver; The winds were love-sick with them: the oars were Which to the tune of flutes kept stroke, and made...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...
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The juvenaile poetical library; selected from the works of modern British ...

Priscilla Maden Watts - 1839 - 286 pages
...a-wooing. THE EMBARKATION OF CLEOPATRA. BY TK HERVEV. 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. SH»KSPEAEE. FLUTES in the sunny air ! And harps in the porphyry halls ! And a low, deep hum — like...
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The Wisdom and Genius of Shakespeare: Comprising Moral Philosophy ...

William Shakespeare, Thomas Price - 1839 - 478 pages
...Purple the sails, and so perfumed, that [silver ; The winds were love-sick with them : the oars were Which to the tune of flutes kept stroke, and made...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...
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The Art of Needle-work, from the Earliest Ages: Including Some Notices of ...

Elizabeth Stone, Mary Margaret Stanley Egerton Countess of Wilton - Embroidery - 1841 - 424 pages
...correct in detail. KNOBAHBUS. — I will tell you. The barge she sat in, like a burnish'd throne, Buro'd on the water : the poop was beaten gold ; Purple the...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'erpictnring that...
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