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... A London Encyclopaedia, Or Universal Dictionary of Science, Art, Literature ... - Page 72edited by - 1829Full view - About this book
| William Shakespeare - 1844 - 554 pages
...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,...beat, to follow faster, As amorous of their strokes. For her own person , It beggar'd all description : she did lie ID her pavilion , (cloth of gold, of... | |
| 1850 - 536 pages
...was beaten gold ; Purple the sails, and so perfumed that The winds were lovesick with them ; the oars were silver ; Which to the tune of flutes kept stroke,...beat to follow faster, As amorous of their strokes.' — SHAKSPBABB. " Flutes in the sunny air ! And harps in the porphyry halls! And a low, deep hum, —... | |
| Clinton G. Gilroy - 1844 - 674 pages
...beaten gold ; Purple the sails, and so perfumed, that The winds were lovesick with them ; the oars were silver, Which to the tune of flutes kept stroke,...beat to follow faster, As amorous of their strokes. For her own person, It beggared all description ; she did lie In her pavilion (cloth of gold of tissue)... | |
| Polyphilus (pseud.) - 1844 - 268 pages
...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,...beat to follow faster, As amorous of their strokes. For her own person, It begjjar'd all description : she did lie In her pavilion (cloth of gold, of tissue),... | |
| James Augustus St. John - 1844 - 1382 pages
...beaten gold ; Purple the Bails, and so perfumed, that The winds were love-sick with "em : the oars were silver ; Which to the tune of flutes kept stroke,...beat to follow faster, 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,)... | |
| Clinton G. Gilroy - 1845 - 680 pages
...beaten gold ; Purple the sails, and so perfumed, that The winds were lovesick with them ; the oars were silver, Which to the tune of flutes kept stroke,...beat to follow faster, As amorous of their strokes. For her own person, It beggared all description ; she did lie In her pavilion (cloth of gold of tissue)... | |
| John Holmes Agnew, Walter Hilliard Bidwell - 1845 - 604 pages
...beaten gold ; Purple the sails, and so perfumed, that The winds were lovesick with them : the oars Which to the tune of flutes kept stroke, and made...beat, to follow faster, As amorous of their strokes. For her own person, It beggared all description : she did lie In her pavilion, (cloth of gold, of tissue,)... | |
| Valentine Mott - 1845 - 470 pages
...was beaten gold ; Purple the sails, and so perfumed that The winds were lovesick with them : the oars were silver ; Which to the tune of flutes kept stroke,...made The water which they beat to follow faster." Three or four of his favourites accompanied him. The other barges contained the rest of his court.... | |
| 1845 - 606 pages
...was beaten gold ; Purple the sails, and so perfumed, that The winds were lovesick with them: the oars were silver ; Which to the tune of flutes kept stroke,...made The water, which they beat, to follow faster, Aa amorous of their strokes. For her own person, It beggared all description : she did lie In her pavilion,... | |
| Encyclopaedia - 1845 - 850 pages
...Purple the sailes ; and so perfumed that The winde« were loue-sicke With them, the owcrs were eiluer, Which to the tune of flutes kept stroke, and made The water which they beatc, to follow faster ; As amorous of their strokes. SkaJapeare. ¿iutony and Cleopatra, fol. 347.... | |
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