 | 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...flutes kept stroke, and made The water which they beat to follow faster, As amorous of their strokes. For her own person, It beggared all description:... | |
 | 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...flutes kept stroke, and made The Water which they beat to follow faster, As amorous of their strokes. For her own person, It beggared all description:... | |
 | 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...flutes kept stroke, and made The water which they beat to follow faster, As amorous of their strokes. . . . (2.2) Enobarbus's sumptuous tableau vivant... | |
 | 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 kept stroke and made | The water which they beat to follow faster' (n. ii.). The phrase had considerable resonance for W; it appears, for example,... | |
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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,... 
