 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...  Trageies - Pagina 437door William Shakespeare - 1864Volledige weergave - Over dit boek
 | M. G. Balme, James Morwood - 1996 - 232 pagina’s
...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 pagina’s
...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... | |
 | Gordon Williams - 1996 - 298 pagina’s
...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... | |
 | Robert Andrews - 1997 - 666 pagina’s
...(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,... | |
 | Thomas Stearns Eliot - 1996 - 476 pagina’s
...compare Antony and Cleopatra, II ii 195—2.00: The barge she sat in, like a burnished throne, Burned on the water. The poop was beaten gold; Purple the...and made The water which they beat to follow faster, TSE has 'golden' (7), 'beat' (5), and 'faster' (24). He later refashioned Enobarbus's speech, both... | |
 | Frederick Turner - 1999 - 232 pagina’s
...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 - 2000 - 60 pagina’s
...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...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'er picturing that... | |
 | Simon Sebag Montefiore - 2001 - 692 pagina’s
...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...As amorous of their strokes. For her own person, It beggar'd all description . . . William Shakespeare, Antony and Cleopatra At midday on 1.2. April 1787,... | |
 | Robert S. Miola - 2000 - 206 pagina’s
...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...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'er-picturing... | |
 | Rosemary Manning - 2000 - 196 pagina’s
...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...As amorous of their strokes. For her own person, It beggar'd all description ..." ' Her senses held by the poetry, Rachel's truant mind played with the... | |
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