 | Kenneth S. Rothwell - 2004 - 402 ページ
...the royal vessel of Queen EHzabeth, depicted on the Thames in Visscher's 1616 engraving of London: "The poop was beaten gold, / Purple the sails, and...winds were love-sick with them; the oars were silver" (2.2.192), and he also pays the greatest tribute of all to Cleopatra: "Age cannot wither her, nor custom... | |
 | Katherine Morris Lester, Bess Viola Oerke, Helen Westermann - 2004 - 612 ページ
...Tarsus to meet the Roman warrior, The barge she sat in like a burnished throne, Burned in the water; the poop was beaten gold; Purple the sails, and so perfumed that The winds were love-sick with them. Antony and Cleopatra, Act II, sc. 2 The mystic-sounding kyaphi was kept by special slaves in containers... | |
 | Stephen Weir - 2005 - 264 ページ
...hungry Where most she satisfies. The barge she sat in, like a burnished throne, burn'd on the water; the poop was beaten gold, purple the sails, and so...strokes. For her own person, it beggar'd all description. — Shakespeare, Antony and Cleopatra MARC ANTONY Isn't it odd that Cleopatra, the last of the Ptolemies,... | |
 | Andrew Hadfield - 2005 - 392 ページ
...successor instinctively avoided) : The barge she sat in, like a burnished throne, Burned on the water; 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'erpicturing that... | |
 | T. S. Eliot - 2006 - 300 ページ
...River to Antony (11. 192-206): The barge she sat in, like a burnished throne, Burned on the water: 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'erpicturing that... | |
 | Frederick William Sternfeld - 2005 - 392 ページ
...rather closely, has reduced the band to a single family of instruments, the amorous flute (Il.ii) : The poop was beaten gold ; Purple the sails, and so...beat to follow faster, As amorous of their strokes. . . . There is a similar musical economy in Shakespeare's treatment 1 Kittredge SP 880 and 943 ; NS... | |
 | Colin Butler - 2005 - 217 ページ
...Antony's first meeting with Cleopatra: The barge she sat in, like a burnish 'd throne, Burnt on the water. The poop was beaten gold, Purple the sails, and so...beat to follow faster, As amorous of their strokes. . . . (2.2) Enobarbus's sumptuous tableau vivant is an accumulation of color, sensuousness, wealth,... | |
 | Lawrence Rainey - 2005 - 1217 ページ
...River to Antony (1l. 192-206): The barge she sat in, like a burnished throne, Burned on the water: the poop was beaten gold; Purple the sails, and so...winds were lovesick with them; the oars were silver, 80 85 90 95 100 105 110 Held up by standards wrought with fruited vines From which a golden Cupidon... | |
 | Oscar Wilde - 2000 - 552 ページ
...echoes Enobarbus's description of Cleopatra's barge in Shakespeare's Antony and Cleopatra ( 1 606-7): 'the oars were silver, | Which to the tune of flutes...made | The water which they beat to follow faster' (n. ii.). The phrase had considerable resonance for W; it appears, for example, in CAA (CWks viii.... | |
 | Timothy Morton - 2006 - 304 ページ
...overpowering on the flowing and erotic: 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...beggar'd all description. She did lie In her pavilion, cloth-of-gold, of tissue, O'erpicturing that Venus where we see The fancy out-work nature. On each... | |
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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... 
