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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... "
A London Encyclopaedia, Or Universal Dictionary of Science, Art, Literature ... - Page 72
edited by - 1829
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The Plays and Poems of William Shakespeare: Printed from the Text ..., Volume 6

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...
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The Christian Examiner and Religious Miscellany, Volume 48

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, —...
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The Art of Weaving, by Hand and by Power: With an Introductory Account of ...

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)...
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The oriental rambler, or, The papers of Polyphilus

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),...
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The Hellenes: The History of the Manners of the Ancient Greeks, Volumes 1-3

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,)...
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The art of waeving by hand and by power

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)...
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Eclectic Magazine: Foreign Literature, Volume 5

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,)...
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Travels in Europe and the East ...: In the Years 1834, '35, '36, '37, '38 ...

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....
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The Eclectic Magazine of Foreign Literature, Science, and Art, Volume 5

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,...
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Encyclopædia metropolitana; or, Universal dictionary of ..., Volume 15

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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