 | Robert Treat Paine - 1812 - 572 pages
...soul. The zephyrs in this and the four preceding lines arc evidently copied from these fine verses : now gentle gales, Fanning their odoriferous wings,...and whisper whence they stole Those balmy spoils. Milton, as Warton suggests, here remembered his Elegy on Bishop Andreses, once master of Pembroke College,... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1810 - 434 pages
...[a] Milton, in his Paradise Lost> B. IV- ha* very successfully introduced the same image : " — — now gentle gales, Fanning their odoriferous wings.,...and whisper whence they stole Those balmy spoils." STEEV, Receiveth as the sea, nought enters there, Of what validity and pitch soever, But falls into... | |
 | New Church gen. confer - 1874 - 608 pages
...and powerful, and reaches so far, as to remind one of the famous picture in Paradise Lost : — ' ' As when to them who sail Beyond the Cape of Hope,...north-east winds blow Sabean odours from the spicy shore Of Araby the blest ; with such delay Well pleased they slack their course, and many a league, C'heer'd... | |
 | Lord Henry Home Kames - 1816 - 452 pages
...his beams Than in fair evening cloud, or humid bow, When God had showVd the earth ; so lovely seem'd That landscape : and of pure now purer air Meets his...inspires Vernal delight and joy, able to drive All s .dness but despair ; now gentle gales Fanning their odoriferous wings, dispense Native perfumes,... | |
 | John Bowdler - 1816 - 370 pages
...extensive and delightful, the region more tranquil, the atmosphere he breathes more aethereal: 453 From pure now purer air Meets his approach, and to the...Vernal delight and joy, able to drive All sadness*. The progress of a Christian is not only " from strength to strength," but from anxiety to a peaceful... | |
 | Henry Home (lord Kames.), Lord Henry Home Kames - 1817 - 532 pages
...his beams Than in fair evening cloud, or humid bow, When God bad shower'd the earth; so lovely seem'd That landscape: and of pure now purer air Meets his...Mozambic, off at sea north-east winds blow Sabean odour from the spicy shore Of Araby the blest; with such delay Well-pleas'd they slack their course,... | |
 | 1817 - 708 pages
...the banks of the canal, from the perfumes exhaled by the gardens with which these are surrounded. " As when to them who sail Beyond the Cape of Hope,...north-east winds blow Sabean odours from the spicy shore Of Araby the blest ; with such delay Well pleased, they slack their course, and many a league, Cheered... | |
 | William Beloe - 1817 - 400 pages
...revert for a moment to Milton, the following similitude will appear very remarkable. Book IV. v. 159. As when to them who sail Beyond the Cape of Hope,...north-east winds blow Sabean odours from the spicy shore Of Araby the blest, with such delay Well pleased they slack their course, and many a league Cheered... | |
 | William Beloe - 1817 - 402 pages
...revert for a moment to Milton, the following similitude will appear very remarkable. Book IV. v. 159. As when to them who sail Beyond the Cape of Hope, and now are past Mozambic, oft' at sea north-east winds blow Sabean odours from the spicy shore Of Araby the blest, with such... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1818 - 290 pages
...backwards shrunk appalled. Even Milton has indulged himself in the same license of expression— .... As when to them who sail Beyond the Cape of Hope,...are past Mozambic, off at sea north-east winds blow Sabtean odour from the spicy shore Of Araby the blessed; with such delay Well pleased, they slack their... | |
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As when to them who sail Beyond the Cape of Hope, and now are past Mozambic, off at sea north-east winds blow Sabean odours from the spicy shore Of Araby the Blest; with, such delay Well pleased they slack their course, and many a league Cheer'd with... 
