 I instantly attacked this passage, since " purple " was the word that had so pleased the writer of the article, to see if there might not be some literary reason for its use. It will be seen that I succeeded amply; and I am bound to say I think the passage...  letters and miscellanies - Seite 247von robert louis stevenson - 1902Vollansicht - Über dieses Buch
 | Edward Berwick - 1813 - 584 Seiten
...BLACKWELL, vol. ii. p. 228. * Agrippa, Royal wench, She made great Csesar lay his sword to bed. Enob. The barge she sat in, like a burnished throne Burnt on the water. of youth and beauty; and the uncontrouled dominion she held over the mind of Antony from that time... | |
 | 1838 - 588 Seiten
...voyages, harmonizes with the gorgeous splendor by which her court and person were always surrounded. ' The barge she sat in, like a burnished throne, Burnt on the water: the poop was beaten gold, Purple the Fails, and so perfumed, that The winds were love-sick with them ; the oars were silver,... | |
 | Queen - 1846 - 670 Seiten
...she said I must leave her, did I know how dear she had become ,to her poor Sanchiza !" CHAPTER III. " The barge she sat in, like a burnished throne, Burnt 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... | |
 | Stephen Olin - 1854 - 370 Seiten
...pearls. I was reminded of the triumphant procession of Cleopatra on the bosom of the Cydnus, when " The barge she sat in, like a burnished throne, Burnt on the water, the poop was beaten gold ; Purple the sails, — the oars were silver ; Which to the tune of flutes kept stroke." It was by... | |
 | 1857 - 716 Seiten
...should bo stationed in the bows. He commences with the general outward appearance of the barge : "Tho barge she sat in, like a burnished throne, Burnt on the water : the poop was beaten gold; Purple the soils, , the oars were silver." Then follows a sketch of the interior and of the occupants,... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1870 - 192 Seiten
...Cydnus. Arjr. There she appeared indeed; or my reporter devised well 4 for her. Eno. I will tell you. 5 The barge she sat in, like a burnished throne, Burnt 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... | |
 | Frederic William Farrar - 1879 - 726 Seiten
...with the Roman Triumvir which Shakspeare has immortalised, when she rowed up the silver Cydnus, and " The barge she sat in like a burnished throne Burnt on the -water ; the poop was beaten gold, Purple the sails, and so perfumed that The winds were love-sick with them." Yet it continued to flourish... | |
 | National Eclectic Medical Association of the United States of America - 1881 - 580 Seiten
...formerly restricted exclusively to functionaries of high rank, which is illustrated in these lines : " The barge she sat in, like a burnished throne, Burnt on the water; the poop was beaten gold. Purple the sails, and so perfumed that The winds were love sick." — Antony and Cleopatra. With the... | |
 | Alfred Hix Welsh - 1882 - 538 Seiten
...Blushed at itself.'' Cleopatra, voluptuous, ostentatious, haughty, dazzling, child of air and fire: 'The barge she sat in, like a burnished throne, Burnt on the water; the poop was beaten gold, Purple the sails, and so perfumed, that The winds were love-sick.'1 What a picture! — 'Age cannot... | |
 | Alfred Hix Welsh - 1882 - 1108 Seiten
...Itself.1* Cleopatra, voluptuous, ostentatious, haughty, dazzling, child of air and fire: 'The bnrge she sat in, like a burnished throne. Burnt on the water; the poop was beaten gold. Purple the sails, and so perfumed, that The winds were love-sick.'' What a picture! — 'Age cannot... | |
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