 | Mrs. Octavius Freire Owen Owen - 1854 - 452 páginas
...better than give the picture drawn of this historical scene by the hand of our greatest poet : — " The barge she sat in, like a burnished throne, Burned....made The water, which they beat, to follow faster, As amoroua of their strokes. For her own person, It beggared all description : she did lie In her pavilion... | |
 | Mrs. Octavius Freire Owen Owen - 1854 - 426 páginas
...scene by the hand of our greatest poet : — " 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'erpicturing that... | |
 | Peggy Muñoz Simonds - 1992 - 412 páginas
...was well known to readers of Plutarch's Lives: The barge she sat in, like a burnish 'd throne, Burnt 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... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1993 - 166 páginas
...or my reporter devised well for her. ENOBARB. I will tell you. The barge she sat in, like a burnisht throne, Burned on the water: the poop was beaten gold;...faster, As amorous of their strokes. For her own person, 200 It beggared all description. She did lie In her pavilion, cloth-of-gold, of tissue, O'er-picturing... | |
 | Jennifer Mulherin, Abigail Frost - 1993 - 40 páginas
...a golden barge. Enobarbus describes Cleopatra The barge she sat in, like a burnish'd throne, Bum'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... | |
 | Alvin B. Kernan - 1997 - 294 páginas
...wealth, in her elegance becomes transcendence: 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. (2.2.191) Sex, drink, idleness, luxury, waste, and other palace vices are transformed by language like... | |
 | Gordon Williams - 1996 - 298 páginas
...describes this floating masque, with Venus-Cleopatra fanned by 'pretty dimpled boys, like smiling Cupids': The barge she sat in, like a burnished throne Burned...beat to follow faster, As amorous of their strokes. (II.ii.198) In those last lines he figures what he takes to be Antony's masochistic obsession, which... | |
 | M. G. Balme, James Morwood - 1996 - 232 páginas
...Cleopatra as she arrived on her elaborate barge: 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... | |
 | Pauline Kiernan - 1998 - 236 páginas
...after the sounde of the musicke of flutes ..." The barge she sat in, like a burnish'd throne Burn'd on the water: the poop was beaten gold; Purple the...beat to follow faster, As amorous of their strokes . . . (II. ii. 191-7) Shakespeare's Cleopatra is a biological magnet that draws all the elements of... | |
 | Robert Andrews - 1997 - 666 páginas
...413, ed. Krailsheimer; no. 162, ed. Brunschvicg (1670, trans. 1688), rev. A.). Krailsheimer (1966). The barge she sat in, like a burnished throne Burned...beat to follow faster, As amorous of their strokes. WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE, (1564-1616) British dramatist, poet. Enobarbus, in Antony and Cleopatra, act 2,... | |
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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... 
