 | 1851 - 496 sider
...DESCRIPTION OF CLEOPATRA SAILING DOWN THE CYDNUS. THE barge she sat in, like a burnish'd throne, Burn'd on the water : the poop was beaten gold ; Purple the...love-sick with them : the oars were silver; Which to the tune of flutes kept stroke, and made The water which they beat to follow faster, As amorous of their... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1851 - 408 sider
...DESCRIPTION OF CLEOPATRA SAILING DOWN THE CYDNUS. The barge she sat in, like a burnish'd throne, fiurn'd on the water: the poop was beaten gold; Purple the...that The winds were love-sick with them: the oars wera silver; Which to the tune of flutes kept stroke, and made The water which they beat, to follow... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 2000 - 60 sider
...determined to dazzle him. She did; and Enobarbus here dazzles his Roman listeners with his account. The barge she sat in, like a burnished throne, Burned...love-sick with them. The oars were silver, Which to the tune of flutes kept stroke, and made The water which they beat to follow faster, As amorous of their... | |
 | Simon Sebag Montefiore - 2001 - 692 sider
...luxurious fleet ever seen on a great river. CLEOPATRA The barge she sat in, like a burnish'd throne, Burn'd on the water, the poop was beaten gold, Purple the...lovesick with them, the oars were silver Which to the tune of flutes kept stroke, and made The water which they beat to follow faster, As amorous of their... | |
 | Rosemary Manning - 2000 - 196 sider
...began Chief, 'I wonder if I can remember it ... "The barge she sat in, like a burnish'd throne, Burn'd on the water; the poop was beaten gold, Purple the...love-sick with them, the oars were silver, Which to the tune of flutes kept stroke, and made The water which they beat to follow faster, As amorous of their... | |
 | Leon Garfield - 1995 - 328 sider
...first she'd met Mark Antony on the River Cydnus? Enobarbus smiled. "I will tell you," he said softly. "The barge she sat in, like a burnished throne, burned...poop was beaten gold, purple the sails . . ." and as he conjured up the marvellous scene, his two listeners drew close, as Rome dissolved and Cleopatra... | |
 | Antony Rowland - 2001 - 342 sider
...as burnished links with Enobarbus's famous celebration of the queen in Act II of Shakespeare's play: The barge she sat in, like a burnished throne Burned...so perfumed that The winds were lovesick with them. (Il.ii. 195-98) Harrison rewrites Shakespeare's pun into the context of private grief: the ring is... | |
 | Barry Strauss - 2001 - 180 sider
...Cleopatra on her galley, seducing Mark Antony: The barge she sat in, like a burnish'd throne, Burn'd on the water: the poop was beaten gold; Purple the...love-sick with them; the oars were silver, Which to the tune of flutes kept stroke and made The water which they beat to follow faster, As amorous of their... | |
 | Theodore Vrettos - 2010 - 290 sider
...Plutarch, colorfully described the occasion: The barge she sat in like a burnish'd throne, Burn'don the water: the poop was beaten gold; Purple the sails,...love-sick with them; the oars were silver, Which to the tune of flutes kept stroke, and made The water which they beat to follow faster, As amorous of their... | |
 | Peter Quennell, Hamish Johnson - 2002 - 246 sider
...passage undergoes a miraculous transformation : The barge she sat in, like a burnish'd throne, Burn'd on the water, the poop was beaten gold ; Purple the...so perfumed that The winds were love-sick with them . . . Her gentlewomen, like the Nereides, So many mermaids tended her i' th' eyes. And made their bends... | |
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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,... 
