 | Claire McEachern - Drama - 2002 - 310 pages
...Enobarbus's description of the Nile-borne Cleopatra: The barge she sat in, like a burnish'd throne, Burnt 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... | |
 | Stanley Wells - Biography & Autobiography - 2003 - 494 pages
...much of North's phraseology remains in lines that nevertheless achieve complete poetic independence: The poop was beaten gold: Purple the sails, and so...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... | |
 | H. Porter Abbott - Literary Criticism - 2002 - 230 pages
...to describe Antony's first view of Cleopatra: The barge she sat in, like a burnished throne, Burned on the water. The poop was beaten gold, Purple the...which they beat to follow faster, As amorous of their strokes.9 This is not what anyone would call detached, objective reporting. Enobarbus draws on a diverse... | |
 | Allardyce Nicoll - Drama - 2002 - 208 pages
...people cold and to the famous description of Cleopatra's first meeting with Antony (n, ii, 197-201): Purple the sails, and so perfumed that The winds were...beat to follow faster, As amorous of their strokes and here, as in the Edward HI passage, there is a lavish use of gold and silver.13 There remain to... | |
 | Eka D. Sitorus - Acting - 2002 - 280 pages
...a burnish'd throne Burn'd on the water, the poop was beaten gold; Purple the sails; and so parfumed that The winds were love-sick with them; the oars...beat to follow faster, As amorous of their strokes. (Perahu yang ditumpanginya, seperti tahta terpoles Membara di atas air, dengan dek disepuh emas; Layarnya... | |
 | Alison Ross, Jen Greatrex - Language Arts & Disciplines - 2001 - 424 pages
...imperial seat to give audience.' ACT IV ITY 27 Shakespeare: Antony and Cleopatra DOMITIUS ENOBARBUS I will tell you. The barge she sat in, like a burnish'd...tissue O'er-picturing that Venus where we see The fancy outwork nature. On each side her Stood pretty dimpled boys, like smiling Cupids, With divers-colour'd... | |
 | Clyde E. Fant, Mitchell G. Reddish - Bibles - 2003 - 429 pages
...city. Shakespeare, borrowing from Plutarch's account of her visit, described the scene as follows: The barge she sat in, like a burnish'd throne, Burn'd...beggar'd all description: she did lie In her pavilion — cloth-of-gold of tissue — O'er-picturing that Venus where we see The fancy outwork nature: on... | |
 | Richmond Tyler Barbour - Drama - 2003 - 274 pages
...Bullough, Narrative and Dramatic Sources, v: 274): 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. (2.2.201-8) The speech is a set-piece of proto-orientalist vision: the splendid,... | |
 | William M. Landes, Richard A. Posner - Business & Economics - 2003 - 460 pages
...here is the corresponding passage in Shakespeare: The barge she sat in, like a burnished throne, Burnt 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... | |
 | Larry Sider, Jerry Sider, Diane Freeman - Performing Arts - 2003 - 260 pages
...taking her to her first meeting with Anthony in Shakespeare's play is perhaps the classic example: '... the oars were silver, Which to the tune of flutes...beat to follow faster, As amorous of their strokes.' The words between 'stroke' and 'faster' require the speaker to push through the resistance of the line-break,... | |
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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... 
