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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,... "
A cyclopædia of poetical quotations, arranged by H.G. Adams - Page 80
by Cyclopaedia - 1853 - 733 pages
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The Poetical Sketch-book: Including a Third Edition of Australia

Thomas Kibble Hervey - 1829 - 310 pages
...CLEOPATRA. AFTER DANBY'S PICTURE OF THE EGYPTIAN QUEEN EMBARKING ON THE CYDNUS. The barge she §at in, like a burnished throne, Burned on the water :...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...
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The London encyclopaedia, or, Universal dictionary of ..., Part 2, Volume 5

Thomas Curtis (of Grove house sch, Islington) - 436 pages
...distance. Shakspeare is quite historical here — The barge she sat in, like a burnished •'< r •"• . Burned on the water : the poop was beaten gold ; Purple...perfumed that The winds were love-sick with them : the oarm wen silver ; Which to the tune of flutes kept stroke, and made The water, which they beat, to...
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The Dramatic Works and Poems of William Shakespeare, with Notes ..., Volume 2

William Shakespeare - 1831 - 606 pages
...you: The barge she sat in, like a burnish'd throne,4 Burn'd on the water: the poop was beaten gold j I do return those talents, Doubled, with thanks, and...from whose " I have spent to write it over, For tune of flutes kept stroke, and made The water, which they beat, to follow faster, l ' Left I be thought...
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Comedy of errors. Troilus and Cressida. Timon of Athens. Coriolanus. Julius ...

1831 - 356 pages
...portraits. I. CLEOPATRA arriving at Taurus. "... The barge she sat in, like a burnish'd throne, Burn'tl 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...
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Comedy of errors. Troilus and Cressida. Timon of Athens. Coriolanus. Julius ...

1833 - 304 pages
...portraits. I. CLEOPATRA arriving at Taurus. "... The barge she sat in, like a burnish'd throne, BurnM 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...
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The Metropolitan, Volume 10

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,...love-sick with them ; the oars were silver ; Which to the tune of flutes kept stroke, aud made The water, which thev beat, to follow faster, As amorous of their...
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Julius Caesar. Antony and Cleopatra. Cymbeline. Titus Andronicus. Pericles

William Shakespeare - 1836 - 534 pages
...Cydnus.3 Agr. There she appeared, indeed ; or my reporter devised well for her. Eno. I will tell you : The barge she sat in like a burnished throne, Burned...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...
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American Monthly Knickerbocker, Volume 11

1838 - 588 pages
...she sat in, like a burnished throne, Burnt on the water: the poop was beaten gold, Purple the Fails, and so perfumed, that The winds were love-sick with...water, which they beat, to follow faster, As amorous of their strokes. For her own person, It beggard all description. At the helm, A seeming mermaid steers...
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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...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...
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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 - 1838 - 590 pages
...her court and person were always surrounded. ' The barge she sat in, like a burnished throne, Burnt 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...
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