 | Howard Crosby - 1851 - 378 páginas
...here Cleopatra captivated the heart of Antony. " 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." This place is probably the Tarshish to which Jonah attempted to flee ; but its crowning glory, in the... | |
 | George William Curtis - 1851
..." The barge she sat in like a burnished throne, Burned on the water : the poop vas beaten gold, T* •Purple the sails, and so perfumed, that The winds...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... | |
 | George William Curtis - 1851 - 320 páginas
...water : the poop was beaten gold, L* Purple the sails, and so perfumed, that The winds were love-eick with them : the oars were silver, Which to the tune...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... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1852
...Cidnus. Agr. There she appear'd indeed ; or my reporter devised well for her. Eno. I will tell you : The barge she sat in, like a burnish'd throne, Burn'd...did lie In her pavilion (cloth of gold, of tissue), O'erpicturing that Venus, where we see. The fancy out-work nature: on each side her, Stood pretty dimpled... | |
 | Gordon Williams - 1996 - 274 páginas
...by 'pretty dimpled boys, like smiling Cupids': 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. (II.ii.198) In those last lines he figures what he takes to be Antony's masochistic obsession, which... | |
 | Victor L. Cahn - 1996 - 865 páginas
...describes her entrance in a passage taken closely from some of the most extravagant prose in Plutarch: The winds were love-sick with them; the oars were...beat to follow faster. As amorous of their strokes. (II, ii, 191-197) In a play full of glorious language, this homage is still astonishing. Then Enobarbus... | |
 | Robert Andrews - 1997 - 625 páginas
...(1670, trans. 1688), rev. A.). Krailsheimer (1966). 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. WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE, (1564-1616) British dramatist, poet. Enobarbus, in Antony and Cleopatra, act 2,... | |
 | Frederick Turner - 1999 - 232 páginas
...Plutarch of Chaeronea) And here is Shakespeare: 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... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1999 - 139 páginas
...well for her. ENOBARBUS I will tell you. 200 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, 209 O'erpicturing that... | |
 | Sebag Montefiore - 2001 - 634 páginas
...the Empress embarked on her galley in the most luxurious fleet ever seen on a great river. CLEOPATRA The barge she sat in, like a burnish'd throne, Burn'd...strokes. For her own person, It beggar'd all description . . . William Shakespeare, Antony and Cleopatra At midday on 1.2. April 1787, Catherine, Potemkin and... | |
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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 which they beat to follow faster, As amorous of... 
