| James Hervey - 1825 - 460 pages
...the land that is very far off, and see the King,' the * Alluding to those lines ID Milton : ,--.,. AS when to them who sail Beyond the Cape of Hope, and now are past Mosambic, off at sea north -en fit winds blow Sabuain odour, from the spicy shore Of Araby the blest,... | |
| Oliver Goldsmith - 1825 - 448 pages
...him, backwards shrunk appall'd. Even Milton has indulged himself in the same licence of expression — As when to them who sail Beyond the Cape of Hope, and now are past Mozambic, off at sea north-east winds blow Sabaean odour from the spicy shore Of Araby the blest ;... | |
| James Hervey - 1825 - 398 pages
...iii. 6. This put me in mind of some beautiful lines of the great Milton : Now gentle gales, Fawning their odoriferous wings, dispense Native perfumes, and whisper whence they stole Those halmy spoils. The other recalled to my memory part of a divine description, vastly superior to Milton's... | |
| John Milton - 1826 - 318 pages
...heart inspires Vernal delight and joy, able to drive 155 All sadness but despair : Now gentle gales, Fanning their odoriferous wings, dispense Native perfumes,...them who sail Beyond the Cape of Hope, and now are pass'd 160 Mozambic, off at sea north-east winds blow Sabean odours from the spicy shore Of Araby the... | |
| John Milton - 1826 - 312 pages
...sadness but despair : Now gentle gales, Fanning their odoriferous wings, dispense Native vim-fumes, and whisper whence they stole Those balmy spoils. As when to them who sail Beyond the Cajie of Hope, and now are pass'd 160 Mozambic, off at sea north-east winds blow Subean odours from... | |
| James Lawson Drummond - 1826 - 420 pages
...earthly residence. It was such as Milton so beautifully describes in the fourth book of Paradise Lost. As when to them who sail Beyond the Cape of Hope, and now are past Mozarabic, off at sea north-east winds blow Sabaean odours from the spicy shore Of Araby the blest;... | |
| Mrs. Hemans - 1826 - 502 pages
...Though the way through darkness bends ; Our souls are strong to follow them, THE BREEZE FROM LAND. -"As when to them who sail Beyond the Cape of Hope, and now are past Mozambic, off at sea north-east winds blow Sabcan odours from the spicy shore Of Araby the Blest ;... | |
| John Milton - 1826 - 540 pages
...entertainments, has noticed the similarity of the following lines, Par. Lost, B. iv. 156. " now gentle gales, " Fanning their odoriferous wings, dispense " Native...and whisper whence they stole " Those balmy spoils." He might also have cited a beautiful line from our Author's early Elegy, In adventum veris ; " Cinnamea... | |
| William Shakespeare - 1826 - 544 pages
...fields.' 3 Milton has very successfully introduced the same image in Paradise Lost : ' Now gentle gales, Fanning their odoriferous wings, dispense Native perfumes,...and whisper whence they stole Those balmy spoils.' Shakspeare, in his Ninty-ninth Sonnet, has made the violet the thief. ' The forward violet thus did... | |
| Henry John Todd - 1826 - 460 pages
...: Whieh is good poetry enough, though too light for him : And Milton has it, " Now gentle gales, " Fanning their odoriferous wings, dispense " Native...and whisper whence they stole " Those balmy spoils." In 1688 the opinion and encouragement of lord Spmers occasioned the handsome folio edition of Paradise... | |
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