 | William Hazlitt - English poetry - 1824 - 1062 pages
...approach, and to the heart inspires Vernal delight and joy, able to drive All sadness but despair: now / Those balmy spoils. As when to them who sail Beyond the Cape of Hope, and now are past Mozambie, off... | |
 | John Milton - 1824 - 472 pages
...35O. He has expressed the very same idea in the Paradise Lost in the following lines, iv. 156. — now gentle gales Fanning their odoriferous wings dispense Native perfumes, and whisper whence they stole Those balmy spoils : and by this little specimen one may see, as I observed before, that our poet's... | |
 | Henry John Todd - Poets, English - 1826 - 460 pages
...that happy place : Whieh is good poetry enough, though too light for him : And Milton has it, " Now gentle gales, " Fanning their odoriferous wings, dispense " Native perfumes, and whisper whence they stole " Those balmy spoils." In 1688 the opinion and encouragement of lord Spmers occasioned the handsome... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1826 - 548 pages
...flowery fields.' 2 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 halmy spoils.' Shakspeare, in his Ninty-ninth Sonnet, has made the violet the thief. ' The forward... | |
 | John Milton - 1826 - 484 pages
...that happy place : Which is good poetry enough, though too light for him: And Milton has it, " Now gentle gales, " Fanning their odoriferous wings, dispense " Native perfumes, and whisper whence they stole " Those balmy spoils." * In 1688 the opinion and encouragement of lord Somers occasioned the handsome... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1826 - 544 pages
...flowery 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... | |
 | Christian Cann - 1828 - 570 pages
...receive their odours, as if from that happy place ;" and hear what the author himself says : — Now gentle gales, Fanning their odoriferous wings, dispense Native perfumes, and whisper whence they stole Those balmy spoils." As the origin of Paradise Lost may not be wholly uninteresting to the reader,... | |
 | Mrs. Monkland - British - 1828 - 302 pages
...approach, and to the heart inspires Vernal delight, and joy, able to drive All sadness, but despair : now gentle gales, Fanning their odoriferous wings, dispense Native perfumes, and whisper whence they stole Those balmy spoils. PARADISE LOST. WHEN the fleet was within a few days' sail of the Cape of Good Hope,... | |
 | Henry Phillips - Botany - 1829 - 398 pages
...Natural Order Campanaceee. Cisti et Violeee, Juss. A. Genus of the Pentandria Monogynia Class. • Now gentle gales, Fanning their odoriferous wings, dispense...and whisper whence they stole These balmy spoils. MILTON. . Let the beauteous Violet Be planted, which, with purple and with gold Richly adorned, ' And... | |
 | Thomas Curtis - Aeronautics - 1829 - 842 pages
...pride «poils many graces. Taylor. This mount, With all his verdure spoiled, and trees adrift. Milton. Gentle gales, Fanning their odoriferous wings, dispense Native perfumes, and whisper whence they stole Those balmy spoil'. U. Go and speed ! Ilavock, and .</IM/, and ruin are my gain. • Id. He that gathered... | |
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All sadness but despair : now gentle gales, 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... 
