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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... "
The Cyclopedia of Practical Quotations: English, Latin, and Modern Foreign ... - Page 552
1896 - 1178 pages
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The art of acting: seni peran untuk teater, film dan TV

Eka D. Sitorus - 2002 - 280 pages
...a burnish'd throne Burn'd on the water, the poop was beaten gold; Purple the sails; and so parfumed that The winds were love-sick with them; the oars...beat to follow faster, As amorous of their strokes. (Perahu yang ditumpanginya, seperti tahta terpoles Membara di atas air, dengan dek disepuh emas; Layarnya...
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The Cambridge Companion to Shakespearean Tragedy

Claire McEachern - 2002 - 310 pages
...detailed recital of Cleopatra's river journey: The barge she sat in, like a burnished throne Burned on the water. The poop was beaten gold; Purple the...were silver, Which to the tune of flutes kept stroke (2.2.201-5) And yet as luscious as the sounds and pictures may be, even those images employed for their...
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A2 English Language and Literature for AQA B

Alison Ross, Jen Greatrex - 2001 - 424 pages
...give audience.' ACT IV ITY 27 Shakespeare: Antony and Cleopatra DOMITIUS ENOBARBUS 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...
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A Guide to Biblical Sites in Greece and Turkey

Clyde E. Fant, Mitchell G. Reddish - 2003 - 429 pages
...city. Shakespeare, borrowing from Plutarch's account of her visit, described the scene as follows: 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...
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The Economic Structure of Intellectual Property Law

William M. Landes, Richard A. Posner - 2003 - 460 pages
...here is the corresponding passage in Shakespeare: The barge she sat in, like a burnished 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 beggared all description: she did lie In her pavilion — cloth-of-gold of tissue...
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Before Orientalism: London's Theatre of the East, 1576-1626

Richmond Tyler Barbour - 2003 - 274 pages
...Bullough, Narrative and Dramatic Sources, v: 274): 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. (2.2.201-8) The speech is a set-piece of proto-orientalist...
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The Laws of Race: As Connected with Slavery

Sidney George Fisher - 2003 - 86 pages
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The Shakespeare Oracle: Let the Bard Predict Your Future

180 pages
...CLEOPATRA. Hie barjIc she sat in, like a burnish'd throne, Burn W on the water: the poop was beaten fjoid; Purple the sails, and so perfumed that The winds were...tune of flutes kept stroke, and made The water which thev beat to follow faster, As amorous of their strokes. For her own person, It bejigared all deseription:...
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Beacon Lights of History, Volume 3

John Lord - 2004 - 180 pages
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Shakespeare, Italy, and Intertextuality

Michele Marrapodi - 2004 - 292 pages
...Cleopatra's barge: 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 descriptions: she did lie In her pavilion, cloth-of-gold, of tissue,...
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