| John Milton - 1843 - 444 Seiten
...their odoriferous wings, dispense Native perfumes, and whisper whence they stole Those balmy spoils. As when, to them who sail Beyond the Cape of Hope, and now are past Mozambique, off at sea north-east winds blow Sabean odours from the spicy shore Of Araby the Blest;... | |
| François-René vicomte de Chateaubriand - 1843 - 592 Seiten
...their odoriferous wings , dispense Native perfumes, and whisper whence they stole Those balmy spoils. As when to them who sail Beyond the cape of Hope , and now are pass'd Mozambic , off at sea north-east winds blow Sabean odours from the spicy shore Of Araby the... | |
| John Aikin - 1843 - 830 Seiten
...their odoriferous wings, dispense Native perfumes, and whisper whence they stole Those balmy spoils. s night: under his burning wheels The stedfast arc past Mozambic, off at sea north-east winds blow Sabean odors from the spicy shore 50 PARADISE LOST.... | |
| James Augustus St. John - 1844 - 1382 Seiten
...land, was wafted out many leagues from the shore. To this Milton alludes in the well known lines : * As when to them who sail Beyond the Cape of Hope,...Mozambic, off at sea north-east winds blow Sabaean odours from the spicy shore Of Araby the Blest : with such delay Well pleased they slack their course,... | |
| English poetry - 1844 - 110 Seiten
...their odoriferous wings, dispense Native perfumes, and whisper whence they stole Those balmy spoils. As when to them who sail Beyond the Cape of Hope,...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... | |
| 1894 - 856 Seiten
...Balm of Gilead and the' gum called Bdellinm in the Bible are obtained. In " Paradise Lost" we read how to them who sail Beyond the Cape of Hope, and now are past Mozambic, off at sea north-cast winds blow Sabean odors from the spicy shore Of Araby the blest, with such delay Well pleased... | |
| Joseph Payne - 1845 - 490 Seiten
...their odoriferous wings, dispense Native perfumes, and whisper whence they stole , Those balmy spoils. As when to them who sail Beyond the Cape of Hope,...Mozambic, off at sea north-east winds blow Sabaean odours from the spicy shore Of Araby the blest ; with such delay Well pleased they slack their course,... | |
| 1845 - 608 Seiten
...to be the mast Of some great admiral, were but a wand," &c. And the celebrated simile in Book IV. " As when to them who sail Beyond the Cape of Hope and...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... | |
| John George Cochrane - 1845 - 562 Seiten
...to be the mast Of some great admiral, were but a wand." &c. And the celebrated simile in Book IV. " As when to them who sail Beyond the Cape of Hope and...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... | |
| 1845 - 648 Seiten
...strong odoriferous scent it casts. The latter half of this sentence recalls the fine lines of Milton : "As when to them who sail Beyond the Cape of Hope and now are past Mozambique, off at sea, north-east winds blow Sabean odors from the spicy shore Of Araby the Blest."... | |
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