 Fanning 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 Mozambic, off at sea north-east winds blow Sabean odours from the spicy shore...  Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine - Page 4871817Full view - About this book
 | Saturday magazine - 1840 - 1078 pages
...dispense Native perfumes, and whisper whence they stole Those balmy spoils. As when to them who nil Beyond the Cape of Hope, and now are past Mozambic,...blow Sabean odours, from the spicy shore Of Araby the blest'd ; with such delay Well pleased, they slack their course; and many a league Cheer'd with the... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1840 - 504 pages
...backwards shrunk appall'd. 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 Sabaean odour from the spicy shore Of Araby the blest ; with such delay Well pleae'd they slack their... | |
 | John Milton - 1841 - 492 pages
...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 son visage. Trois fois il pâlit de colère , d'envie et de désespoir. De tels désordres n'altérèrent... | |
 | 1853 - 588 pages
...alive with happy thoughts, all the happier because it was the Sabbath morning. He recited the words : " As when to them who sail Beyond the cape of Hope, and now are past Mozambic, off at sen northeast winds blow Sabean odors from the spicy shore Of Arabic ihe blest '' " Take out Milton,"... | |
 | Heinrich Mutschmann - 1924 - 80 pages
...dispense Native perfumes, and whisper whence they stole Those balmy spoils. As when to them who sail 160 Beyond the Cape of Hope, and now are past 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... | |
 | 1894 - 1074 pages
...Balm of Gilead and the gum called Bdellium in the Bible are obtained. In Paradise Lost we read how ... to them who sail Beyond the Cape of Hope, and now...a league Cheered with the grateful smell old ocean emiles. Milton then goes on to speak of the fiend Asmodeus, and thepassage introduces 'so curious a... | |
 | Louis Lohr Martz - 1986 - 388 pages
...poet, or any normal human being, as Milton goes on to make clear in one of his most effective similes: As when to them who sail Beyond the Cape of Hope, and now are past Mozambic, off at Sea North-East windes blow Sabean Odours from the spicie shoare Of Arable the blest, with such delay Well pleas'd... | |
 | John S. Tanner - 1992 - 226 pages
...Fanning their odiferous 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 Sabean Odors from the spicy shore Of Araby the blest, with such delay Well pleas'd they slack their course,... | |
 | 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 1 should... | |
 | Shahina A. Ghazanfar - 1994 - 276 pages
...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,...at Sea North-East winds blow Sabean Odours from the spicie shore Of Arabie the blest, with such delay Well pleas 'd they slack thir course, and many a... | |
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