 | 1848 - 556 sider
...too closely upon dangerous and " holy ground." The barge she sat in, like a burnish'd throne, Beam'd on the water; the poop was beaten gold; Purple the...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... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1848 - 532 sider
...upon the river of Cydnus. 8 Eno. I will tell you: The barge she sat in like a burnished throne, Burned on the water: the poop was beaten gold; Purple the...winds were 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... | |
 | Frederick Turner - 1999 - 232 sider
...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...winds were 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... | |
 | Sebag Montefiore - 2001 - 692 sider
...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...winds were 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... | |
 | Rosemary Manning - 2000 - 196 sider
...which opened off one end of it. 'The barge she sat in,' began Chief, 'I wonder if I can remember it ... "The barge she sat in, like a burnish'd throne, Burn'd...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... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 2000 - 60 sider
...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...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... | |
 | Robert S. Miola - 2000 - 206 sider
...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...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... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 2001 - 162 sider
...river of Cydnus. AGRIPPA There she appear'd indeed; or my reporter devis'd well for her. ENOBARBUS I will tell you. The barge she sat in, like a burnish'd...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... | |
 | Barry Strauss - 2001 - 182 sider
...(Ezekiel 27:6) Now, here is Shakespeare's portrait of Cleopatra on her galley, seducing Mark Antony: The barge she sat in, like a burnish'd throne, Burn'd...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... | |
 | Peter Quennell, Hamish Johnson - 2002 - 246 sider
.... In Shakespeare's hands this comparatively prosaic passage undergoes a miraculous transformation : The barge she sat in, like a burnish'd throne, Burn'd...so perfumed that The winds were love-sick with them . . . Her gentlewomen, like the Nereides, So many mermaids tended her i' th' eyes. And made their bends... | |
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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,... 
