...she sat in, like a burnish'd throne. Burn'd on the water: the poop was beaten gold; Purple the sales, and so perfumed that The winds were love-sick with...beggar'd all description: she did lie In her pavilion — cloth-of-gold of tissue — on each side her Stood pretty dimpled boys, like smiling Cupids, With...

...the sea is recollected in the peculiar enchanted and erotic harmony of sea and oars in Shakespeare: 'the oars were silver, / Which to the tune of flutes...beat to follow faster, / As amorous of their strokes' (2.2.204-7). The complete series of intermedi, in fact, anticipate and elaborate Shakespeare in celebrating...

...play with the god Bacchus, for the generall good of all Asia. The barge she sat in, like a burnish' d throne, Burn'd on the water. The poop was beaten gold;...person, It beggar'd all description. She did lie In her pavillion, cloth-of-gold, of tissue, O'erpicturing that Venus where we see The fancy out-work nature....

...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,...strokes. For her own person, it beggar'd all description. — Shakespeare, Antony and Cleopatra MARC ANTONY Isn't it odd that Cleopatra, the last of the Ptolemies,...

...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...As amorous of their strokes. For her own person, It beggared all description: she did lie In her pavilion, cloth-of-gold of tissue, O'erpicturing that...

...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...As amorous of their strokes. For her own person, It beggared all description: she did lie In her pavilion, cloth-of-gold of tissue, O'erpicturing that...

...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,...

...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...

...Speak. "What are you thinking of? What thinking? What? "I never know what you are thinking. Think." Which to the tune of flutes kept stroke, and made...As amorous of their strokes. For her own person, It beggared all description: she did lie In her pavilion, cloth-of-gold of tissue, O'erpicturing that...

...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;...beggar'd all description. She did lie In her pavilion, cloth-of-gold, of tissue, O'erpicturing that Venus where we see The fancy out-work nature. On each...