 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...  The Miscellaneous Works of Oliver Goldsmith.. - Page 427by Oliver Goldsmith - 1806Full view - About this book
 | United States - 1845 - 648 pages
...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."... | |
 | Eliphalet L. Rice - American literature - 1846 - 432 pages
...their odorilerous 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 odors from the spicy shore Of Araby the bless'd... | |
 | Literature - 1909 - 502 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 Sabean odours from the spicy shore Of Araby the Blest, with such delay Well pleased they slack their... | |
 | 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 course,... | |
 | Nineteenth century - 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...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... | |
 | Louis Lohr Martz - Poetry - 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 - Anxiety in literature - 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,...are past 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... | |
 | David Quint - Literary Criticism - 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 - Health & Fitness - 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,...are past Mozambic, off 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... | |
 | John Ovington - History - 1994 - 354 pages
...so called because the Portuguese discovered it on the 'Dia de Anno Bom', New Year's Day, 1473. 'Cf. 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... | |
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