...of Shakespeare, which is copied from Plutarch's original recital, is in no way overdrawn :— • ' The barge she sat in, like a burnish'd throne, Burn'd...beat to follow faster, As amorous of their strokes. From the barge A strange invisible perfume hits the sense Of the adjacent wharfs. The city cast Her...

...them. Meanwhile Antony, looking out into the audience at the imagined barge approaching him, says, The barge she sat in, like a burnish'd throne Burn'd...beat to follow faster, As amorous of their strokes. The chorus then, using their rehearsed movements and words, offer Antony different temptations. He...

...up the river in full regalia, "O'er-picturing that Venus where we see/ The fancy out-work nature": The barge she sat in, like a burnish'd throne Burn'd...beat to follow faster, As amorous of their strokes (Antony and Cleopatra II. 2). unkind, reaction of a Parisian compelled to serve as consul today in...

...^nobarbus' description of Cleopatra's galley : — " The barge she sat in, like a burnished throne, Burnt on the water; the poop was beaten gold: Purple the...with them. The oars were silver, Which to the tune of lutes kept stroke." " You see," said Jeffrey, " that tlwugh the sails were purple and the oars silver,...

...wealth, in her elegance becomes transcendence: The barge she sat in, like a burnish'd throne, Burnt on the water. The poop was beaten gold, Purple the...beat to follow faster, As amorous of their strokes. (2.2.191) Sex, drink, idleness, luxury, waste, and other palace vices are transformed by language like...

...purple, and the owres of silver, which kept stroke rowing after the sounde of the musicke of flutes ..." The barge she sat in, like a burnish'd throne Burn'd...beat to follow faster, As amorous of their strokes . . . (II. ii. 191-7) Shakespeare's Cleopatra is a biological magnet that draws all the elements of...

...by 'pretty dimpled boys, like smiling Cupids': The barge she sat in, like a burnished throne Burned on the water. The poop was beaten gold; Purple the...beat to follow faster, As amorous of their strokes. (II.ii.198) In those last lines he figures what he takes to be Antony's masochistic obsession, which...

...(1670, trans. 1688), rev. A.). Krailsheimer (1966). The barge she sat in, like a burnished throne Burned on the water. The poop was beaten gold; Purple the...beat to follow faster, As amorous of their strokes. WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE, (1564-1616) British dramatist, poet. Enobarbus, in Antony and Cleopatra, act 2,...

...compare Antony and Cleopatra, II ii 195—2.00: The barge she sat in, like a burnished throne, Burned on the water. The poop was beaten gold; Purple the...and made The water which they beat to follow faster, TSE has 'golden' (7), 'beat' (5), and 'faster' (24). He later refashioned Enobarbus's speech, both...

...devised well for her. ENOBARBUS I will tell you. 200 The barge she sat in, like a burnished throne Burned on the water. The poop was beaten gold; Purple the...winds were lovesick with them. The oars were silver, 200 At this point in Hall's production Michael Bryant 'came round and sat confidently in Antony's chair'...