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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."
Philadelphia Reflections: Shakspere Society of Philadelphia admin 2009
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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."
Archive 2009-11-01 admin 2009
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"The barge she sat in, like a burnish'd throne, burn'd on the water," Banks whispered.
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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
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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
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The leaves of burnish'd gold, the fruits that thereon grow
The Growth of English Drama Arnold Wynne
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I have read a fiery gospel writ in burnish'd rows of steel:
Scouting For Girls, Official Handbook of the Girl Scouts Girl Scouts of the United States of America 1918
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In the spring a livelier iris changes on the burnish'd dove;
A Book of Natural History Young Folks' Library Volume XIV. Various 1891
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The glistening beads above, the burnish'd leaves beneath.
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But ceaseless round the burnish'd ramparts glides;
Old Spookses' Pass, Malcolm's Katie, and other poems Isabella Valancy Crawford 1868
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