 | Literature - 1909 - 502 pages
...already ! Behold him in this state calamitous, and turn His labours, for thou canst, to peaceful end. But who is this? what thing of sea or land — Female...stately ship Of Tarsus, bound for the isles Of Javan or Gadire, With all her bravery on, and tackle trim, Sails filled, and streamers waving, Courted by all... | |
 | Pierre Coustillas - Literary Collections - 1968 - 210 pages
...full of such similes and metaphors; we need only cite his ironic description of Clem as sweeping on 'like a stately ship of Tarsus, bound for the isles of Javan or Gadire'. A good example of his use of classic metaphor occurs later in the same book where he calls... | |
 | Owen Barfield - Language Arts & Disciplines - 1973 - 244 pages
...is aware of its nautical tang; for we find it in that wonderful description of Dalilah's approach : But who is this, what thing of Sea or Land? Female of sex it seems, That so bedeckt, ornate, and gay, Comes this way sailing Like a stately Ship Of Tarsus, bound for th' Isles... | |
 | Harvard University - Education - 1874 - 378 pages
...me ? But I Believe not these suggestions, which proceed From anguish of the mind and humours black. Like a stately ship Of Tarsus, bound for the isles Of Javan or Gadirc. Archers and slingers, catophracts and spears. Like that sflf-begottcn bird In the Arabian woods... | |
 | Margaret W. Ferguson, Maureen Quilligan, Nancy Vickers - History - 1986 - 464 pages
...seductiveness, as the chorus attempts to focus its masculine gaze upon a constellation of gender signs: But who is this, what thing of Sea or Land? Female of sex it seems, That so bedeckt, ornate, and gay, Comes this way sailing Like a stately Ship Of Tarsus, bound for th'Isles... | |
 | John Milton - Drama - 1988 - 244 pages
...to peaceful end. But who is this, what thing of Sea or Land? Femal of sex it seems, That so bedeckt, ornate, and gay, Comes this way sailing Like a stately Ship Of Tarsus, bound for th' Isles Of Javan or Gadier With all her bravery on, and tackle trim, Sails fill'd, and streamers... | |
 | David George Pitt - Tales - 1990 - 196 pages
...though blind, saw clearly with his inward eye the temptress Delilah, mighty Samson's femme fatale: But who is this, what thing of Sea or Land? Female of sex it seems, That so bedeckt, ornate, and gay, Comes this way sailing Like a stately Ship. . . With all her bravery on,... | |
 | Edith P. Hazen - Literary Criticism - 1992 - 1172 pages
...my hunger what hast thou to do? (II, 1. 378-389) FaBoPV 317 POETRY QUOTATIONS Samson Agonlstes 110 YAP; LiTA; LiTM; NoAM; NOBA; OxBA; TAP Luclnda Matlock...many a flower and medicinal weed — Shouting to the Gadier With all her bravery on, and tackle trim. Sails filled, and streamers waving, (1. 710—718)... | |
 | Ellen Spolsky - Literary Criticism - 1993 - 292 pages
...strange power" (1003). She is not merely beautiful, she is something like the principle of beauty itself: Like a stately ship Of Tarsus, bound for the isles Of Javan or Gadire, With all her bravery on, and tackle trim, Sails filled, and streamers waving, Courted by all... | |
 | John Milton - Poetry - 1994 - 630 pages
...turn His labours, for thou canst, to peaceful end. But who is this, what thing of sea or land? 710 Female of sex it seems, That so bedecked, ornate,...way sailing Like a stately ship Of Tarsus, bound for th' isles Of Javan746 or Gadire,747 With all her bravery on and tackle trim, Sails filled, and streamers... | |
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But who is this, what thing of sea or land? Female of sex it seems, That so bedecked, ornate, and gay, Comes this way sailing Like a stately ship Of Tarsus, bound for the Isles Of Javan or Gadire With all her bravery on, and tackle trim, Sails filled... 
