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" But now how stands the wind ? Into what corner peers my halcyon's bill ? * Ha! to the east ? yes: see, how stand the vanes ? East and by south: why then I hope my ships I sent for Egypt and the bordering isles Are gotten up by Nilus... "
Specimens of English Dramatic Poets who Lived about the Time of Shakespeare ... - Page 29
by Charles Lamb - 1845 - 466 pages
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Proceedings of the Royal Philosophical Society of Glasgow, Volume 46

Royal Philosophical Society of Glasgow - 1915 - 312 pages
...cadences within each strophe. Leigh Hunt quotes from Marlowe's "Jew of Malta " the passage concluding Mine argosies from Alexandria Loaden with spice and...Candy shore To Malta through our Mediterranean sea. and points out the obvious beauty of the vowel music in the lines, their delicacy of alliteration,...
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The Ethics of Criticism and Other Essays

Norbert Hardy Wallis - 1924 - 244 pages
...IV, Sc. 1. 90 interest, save in some fine descriptive passages, such as— " Why then I hope my ships I sent for Egypt and the bordering isles, Are gotten up by Nilus winding banks ; Mine argosy from Alexandria, Loaden with spice and silks, now under sail Are smoothly gliding down by Candy-shore...
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Themes and Conventions of Elizabethan Tragedy

M. C. Bradbrook - 1980 - 284 pages
...same flexibility: Why, then, I hope my ships . . . Are gotten up by Nilus' winding banks, Mine argosy from Alexandria, Loaden with spice and silks, now...Candy shore To Malta, through our Mediterranean Sea. (ii 4iff) The jerky laboured movement of the first line is set in opposition to the slurred glide of...
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The Plays

Christopher Marlowe - 2000 - 564 pages
...Ha! To the east? Yes. See how stand the vanes — 40 East and by south: why, then, I hope my ships I sent for Egypt and the bordering isles Are gotten up by Nilus' winding banks; Mine argosy from Alexandria, Loaden with spice and silks, now under sail, Are smoothly gliding down by Candy-shore...
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Renaissance Go-betweens: Cultural Exchange in Early Modern Europe

Andreas Höfele, Werner von Koppenfels - 2005 - 312 pages
...in return for the argosies 'from Alexandria, / Loaden with spice and silks,' that Barabas envisions 'smoothly gliding down by Candy shore / To Malta, through our Mediterranean sea' (1.1.4-47). Though his stock includes 'cellars of wine and solars full of wheat,' it is his 'Warehouse...
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The Book of Poetry: Collected from the Whole Field of British and ..., Volume 4

Edwin Markham - 1927 - 388 pages
...halcyon's bill? Ha! to the east? yes; see how stand the vanes? East and by south. Why then, I hope my ships I sent for Egypt and the bordering isles Are gotten...Candy shore To Malta, through our Mediterranean Sea. The Vaunts of Tamburlaine FROM "TAMBURLAINE THE GREAT" Milton never surpassed the elevation of the...
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Queen's Quarterly, Volume 26

1919 - 506 pages
...in, and not merely gloat over, the flowing tide of his riches: "Mine argosies from Alexandria, Laden with spice and silks, now under sail, Are smoothly...Candy shore To Malta through our Mediterranean sea." What exquisite modulation in that last line. Everyone must read the passage with more pleasure in melody,...
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The Merchant of Venice

William Shakespeare - 1911 - 296 pages
...the wind? Ha! to the east? yes: see how stand the vanes? East and by south: why then I hope my ships I sent for Egypt and the bordering isles Are gotten up by Nilus' winding banks: Mine argosy from Alexandria, Loaden with spice and silks, [cf. 33, 34] now under sail, Are smoothly gliding...
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