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" All sadness but despair : now gentle gales, Fanning their odoriferous wings, dispense Native perfumes, and whisper whence they stole Those balmy spoils. "
A System of English Grammar - Page 167
by Charles Walker Connon - 1845 - 168 pages
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Epic and Empire: Politics and Generic Form from Virgil to Milton

David Quint - 1993 - 448 pages
...for the cape is balanced in Book 4 (4.159-65) by the simile that likens the archfiend outside Eden to "them who sail / Beyond the Cape of Hope, and now are past / Mozambic." These similes at either end of Satan's trip invoke the Indian Ocean world of Camoes' epic.9...
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Handbook of Arabian Medicinal Plants

Shahina A. Ghazanfar - 1994 - 276 pages
...gales Fanning thir odoriferous wings dispense Native perfumes, and wisper whence they stole Those baume spoils. 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 spicie shore Of Arabie the blest,...
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A Voyage to Surat in the Year 1689

John Ovington - 1994 - 354 pages
...so called because the Portuguese discovered it on the 'Dia de Anno Bom', New Year's Day, 1473. 'Cf. 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...
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The Silent Word: Textual Meaning and the Unwritten

Robert Young, Kah Choon Ban, Robbie B. H. Goh - 1998 - 190 pages
...to a simile that points to the Indian Ocean world that constitutes the locus of Camoes' epic poem: As when to them who sail Beyond the Cape of Hope, and now are past Mozambic, off at Sea North-East winds blow Sabean Odors from the spicy shore Of Araby the blest, with...
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The Arts of Empire: The Poetics of Colonialism from Raleigh to Milton

Walter S. H. Lim - 1998 - 292 pages
...to a simile that points to the Indian Ocean world that constitutes the locus of Camoes's epic poem: As when to them who sail Beyond the Cape of Hope, and now are past Mozambic, off at Sea North-East winds blow Sabean Odors from the spicy shore Of Araby the blest, with...
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Milton and the Natural World: Science and Poetry in Paradise Lost

Karen L. Edwards - 2005 - 284 pages
...is more to be said, however, about Milton's representation of the commodity itself: now gentle gales Fanning their odoriferous wings dispense Native perfumes,...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 Arabie the blest,...
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De la syntaxe à la narratologie énonciative

Marc Arabyan - 2001 - 362 pages
...presque enivré par les parfums et senteurs « naturels » (« Native perfumes ») qui en émanent : As when to them who sail Beyond the Cape of Hope, and now are past Mozambic, off at sea-noth-east winds blow Sabean odours from the spicy shore Of Arabie the blest, whith...
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Old Worlds: Egypt, Southwest Asia, India, and Russia in Early Modern English ...

John Michael Archer - 2001 - 268 pages
...he savors the scent of the Garden like European traders anticipating the lucrative spices of Asia: As when to them who sail Beyond the Cape of Hope, and now are past Mozambic, off at Sea North-East winds blow Sabean Odors from the spicy shore OfAraby the blest. (4:160-63)...
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Paradise Lost (Hughes Edition)

John Milton, Merritt Yerkes Hughes - 2003 - 388 pages
...inspires Vernal delight and joy, able to drive 15i All sadness but despair: now gentle gales Fanning thir odoriferous wings dispense Native perfumes, and whisper...who sail Beyond the Cape of Hope, and now are past ieo Mozambic, off at Sea North-East winds blow Sabean Odors from the spicy shore Of Araby the blest,...
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The Major Works

John Milton - 2003 - 1012 pages
...joy, able to drive All sadness but despair: now gentle gales Farming their odoriferous wings dispense0 Native perfumes, and whisper whence they stole Those...them who sail Beyond the Cape of Hope, and now are past0 160 Mo2ambique, off at sea north-east winds blow Sabean odours from the spicy shore0 Of Araby...
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