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Go back to [[Shoring Up Fragments Against Our Ruin: Quotations and Allusions]] Go to [[The Waste Land Text]] ==T.S. Eliot Reading "A Game of Chess"== <videoflash type=youtube>DMoZVfH8_sU</videoflash> ==Lines 77-96== ===William Shakespeare=== The Chair she sat in, like a burnished throne, Glowed on the marble, where the glass Held up by standards wrought with fruited vines Lines 77-79 The lines here are from the play ''Antony and Cleopatra II.ii'' Enobarbus The barge she sat in, like a burnished throne, Burn'd on the water: the poop was beaten gold; Purple the sails, and so perfumed that ===Virgil=== In vials of ivory and coloured glass Unstoppered, lurked her strange synthetic perfumes, Unguent, powdered, or liquid—troubled, confused And drowned the sense in odours; stirred by the air That freshened from the window, these ascended In fattening the prolonged candle-flames, Flung their smoke into the laquearia, Stirring the pattern on the coffered ceiling. Lines 86-93 Taken from Virgil's ''Aeneid'' From a translation by Robert Fagles translated works of the ''Aneid'' They light the lamps, hung from the coffered ceilings sheathed in gilt, and blazing torches burn the night away. ==Lines 97-103== ===John Milton=== Above the antique mantel was displayed As though a window gave upon the sylvan scene Lines 97-98 From John Milton's ''Paradise Lost''. A Silvan Scene, and as the ranks ascend Shade above shade, a woodie Theatre Of stateliest view. ===Ovid=== ==Lines 104-110== ==Lines 111-127== ===William Shakespeare=== Those are pearls that were his eyes. Line 125 From ''The Tempest'' Go to: ==Lines 128-18== ==Lines 139-172== ===William Shakespeare=== Go back to [[Shoring Up Fragments Against Our Ruin: Quotations and Allusions]] Go to [[The Waste Land Text]]
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