Burn'd

He replies with his smashing plead about Cleo's boat upon a Nile, which "like a burnish'd throne/Burn'd upon a water."

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He replies with his smashing plead about Cleo's boat upon a Nile, which "like a burnish'd throne/Burn'd upon a water."

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In The Waste Land, T.S. Eliot "stole" the famous opening of Shakespeare's barge passage, "The barge she sat in, like a burnish'd throne,/Burn'd on the water" becoming "The Chair she sat in, like a burnished throne,/Glowed on the marble."

On Plagiarism 2002

In The Waste Land, T.S. Eliot "stole" the famous opening of Shakespeare's barge passage, "The barge she sat in, like a burnish'd throne,/Burn'd on the water" becoming "The Chair she sat in, like a burnished throne,/Glowed on the marble."

On Plagiarism 2002

Burn'd down his bridges, and abridg'd half his story.

On the Burning of the French Bridges Over the Danube, by the Austrians 1809

Martyr at the Stake, seeing the Book of the REVELATION thrown by his no less Profane than Bloody Persecutors, to be Burn'd in the same Fire with himself, he cryed out, _O Beata Apocalypsis; quam bene mecum agitur, qui tecum Comburar!

The Wonders of the Invisible World Being an Account of the Tryals of Several Witches Lately Executed in New-England, to which is added A Farther Account of the Tryals of the New-England Witches Cotton Mather 1695