John Bartlett (1820–1905). Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. 1919.
1852 William Shakespeare 1564-1616 John Bartlett
| NUMBER: | 1852 |
| AUTHOR: | William Shakespeare (1564–1616) |
| QUOTATION: | 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 which they beat to follow faster, As amorous of their strokes. For her own person, It beggar’d all description. |
| ATTRIBUTION: | Antony and Cleopatra. Act ii. Sc. 2. [text] |
| WORKS: | William Shakespeare Collection. |