| William Shakespeare, John Payne Collier - 1843 - 594 páginas
...reporter devised well for her. Eno. I will tell you. 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... | |
| 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 sails, and so perfumed that The winds were lovesick with them; the oars were silver, Which to the tune of flutes... | |
| Robert S. Miola - 2000 - 206 páginas
...writers. Witness Enobarbus' description of Cleopatra: The barge she sat in, like a burnished throne Burned 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... | |
| Simon Sebag Montefiore - 2001 - 692 páginas
...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 sails, and so perfumed, that The winds were lovesick with them, the oars were silver Which to the tune of flutes... | |
| Henry Coleman Folkard - 2000 - 586 páginas
...probably be wreeked. i'IIINtiSE FLOWEE-BOATS. - The barge she sat in, like a burnish'd throne BurnM on the water. The poop was beaten gold : Purple the sails, and so perfumed that The winds were love-siek with them. The oars were silver ; Whieh to the tune of flutes... | |
| William Shakespeare - 2000 - 60 páginas
...dazzles his Roman listeners with his account. The barge she sat in, like a burnished throne, Burned 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... | |
| William Shakespeare - 2000 - 404 páginas
...comparison in order to sec how fine prose is aichemized into great poetry (sec Appendix A). Burned on the water; the poop was beaten gold, Purple the sails, and so perfumed that 200 The winds were lovesick with them; the oars were silver, Which to the tune of flutes... | |
| Rosemary Manning - 2000 - 196 páginas
...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 sails, and so perfumed, that The winds were love-sick with them, the oars were silver, Which to the tune of flutes... | |
| Leon Garfield - 1995 - 328 páginas
...Enobarbus smiled. "I will tell you," he said softly. "The barge she sat in, like a burnished throne, burned on the water; the 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... | |
| Barry Strauss - 2001 - 180 páginas
...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 sails, and so perfumed that The winds were love-sick with them; the oars were silver, Which to the tune of flutes... | |
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