 | Stephen Weir - 2005 - 264 pages
...appetites they feed, but she makes hungry Where most she satisfies. The barge she sat in, like a burnished throne, burn'd on the water; the poop was beaten gold,...beat to follow faster, as amorous of their strokes. For her own person, it beggar'd all description. — Shakespeare, Antony and Cleopatra MARC ANTONY... | |
 | T. S. Eliot - 2006 - 300 pages
...down the Cydnus River to Antony (11. 192-206): 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,... | |
 | Colin Butler - 2005 - 217 pages
...prelude to Antony's first meeting with Cleopatra: 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. . . . (2.2) Enobarbus's sumptuous tableau vivant is an accumulation of color, sensuousness, wealth,... | |
 | Andrew Hadfield - 2005 - 392 pages
...display that her successor instinctively avoided) : 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,... | |
 | Frederick William Sternfeld - 2005 - 392 pages
...rather closely, has reduced the band to a single family of instruments, the amorous flute (Il.ii) : The poop was beaten gold ; Purple the sails, and so...beat to follow faster, As amorous of their strokes. . . . There is a similar musical economy in Shakespeare's treatment 1 Kittredge SP 880 and 943 ; NS... | |
 | Benjamin Ifor Evans - 2006 - 520 pages
...Thomas North, The Lives of the Noble Grecians and Romans) - lf Eli H <^Af*> (Plutarch, Lives) bus) ' The barge she sat in, like a burnish'd throne, Burn'd...beat to follow faster, As amorous of their strokes. For their own person, It beggar'd all description: she did lie In her pavilion — cloth-of-gold tissue... | |
 | Timothy Morton - 2006 - 304 pages
...superimpose the massive and overpowering on the flowing and erotic: The barge she sat in, like a burnish 'd throne, Burn'd on the water. The poop was beaten gold;...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,... | |
 | Marvin Rosenberg, Mary Rosenberg - 2006 - 628 pages
...Enobarbus's own soft amazements): the poop was beaten gold! Purple the sails!— the royal color — and so perfumed that The winds were lovesick with...beat, to follow faster, As amorous of their strokes! For her own person — Enobarbus has earned an audience laugh here, by failing to find words enough,... | |
 | Emma Smith - 2007 - 6 pages
...devised well for her. ENOBARBUS I will tell you. 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... | |
 | C J Ackerley - 2007 - 97 pages
...she sat in, like a burnish' d throne, Burn'd on the water. The poop was beaten gold; Purple the sail, and so perfumed that The winds were love-sick with...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,... | |
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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... 
