 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...  Elements of Criticism - Page 332by Lord Henry Home Kames - 1842 - 504 pagesFull view - About this book
 | John Oldmixon - 1728 - 484 pages
...Cloud, or humid Sow When God hathjbower'd the Earth j So lovely feem' A The Landskip : And offure, now purer Air Meets his Approach, and to the Heart inspires Vernal Delight and Joy, abk to drive AllSadnefs but Despair: now gentle Gales Fanning their odoriferous Wings, difpenfe Native... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1788 - 442 pages
...WAR.BCRTON. Milton, in his Paradise Lest, b.iv. has very success, fully introduced the image : " — now gentle gales, " Fanning their odoriferous wings,...perfumes, and whisper whence they stole . . " Those balmy«poils." STEEVENS. ,6. — i — That breathes upon a bank of violets — ] Here Shakspere makes... | |
 | John Milton - 1795 - 316 pages
...evening cloud, or humid bow, When God hath show Vd the earth; so lovely secm'd That landskip : and of pure now purer air Meets his approach, and to the...wings dispense Native perfumes, and whisper whence the)' stole Those balmy spoils. As when to them who sail Beyond the Cape of Hope, and now arc past... | |
 | John Milton, Samuel Johnson - 1796 - 610 pages
...cloud, or humid bow, 1 5 1 When God hath show'r'd the earth : so lovely seem'd That landskip : and of pure now purer air Meets his approach, and to the...heart inspires Vernal delight and joy, able to drive 155 All sadness but despair : now gentle gales, Fanning their odorif'rous wings, dispense Native perfumes,... | |
 | John Milton - 1800 - 300 pages
...ev'ning eloud, or hundd how, Wlien God hath shower'd the earth; so lovely secm'd That landscape, and of pure, now purer air . Meets his approach, and to the heart inspires , Vernal delight and joy, ahle to drive All sadness hut despair: now gentle gales Fanning their odorif rous wings, dispense Native... | |
 | John Milton - 1801 - 396 pages
...evening cloud, or humid bow, When God hath show'r'd the earth ; so lovely seem'd That landskip : and of pure now purer air Meets his approach, and to the...heart inspires Vernal delight and joy, able to drive 155 All sadness but despair : now gentle gales Fanning their odoriferous wings, dispense Native perfumes,... | |
 | Joseph Addison - 1804 - 578 pages
...evening cloud or humid bow, When God hath show'r'd the earth, so lovely seem'd That landscape : And of pure now purer air Meets his approach, and to the...delight, and joy able to drive All sadness but despair, &c. thing in this world, and its incapacity of producing any solid or substantial happiness. As discourses... | |
 | English literature - 1804 - 188 pages
...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,...are past Mozambic, off at sea north-east winds blow Sabtean odour from the spicy shore Of Araby the blest ! with such delay Well pleas'd, they slack their... | |
 | 1804 - 574 pages
...Fcrm-->;! du paradis U'i agrates remparts, D'eu l'eeil dans les vallons plongeait de tcutes farts.' Fanning their odoriferous wings, dispense Native perfumes,...and whisper whence they stole Those balmy spoils." Now gentle gales, ' Là, mille frais zcpkyrs sur leur aile embaumée, Faisaient -vola têtfleurs l'essence... | |
 | James Malcolm (land surveyor.) - Agriculture - 1805 - 532 pages
...evening cloud, or humid bow, When GOD hath shower'd the earth; so lovely seem'd That landscape : and of pure now purer air Meets his approach, and to the...delight, and joy able to drive All sadness but despair, &c. MILTON'S Par. Lost. Note. The smallest growing trees should be planted at 40 feet, and so increase... | |
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