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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... "
The Birds of Aristophanes - Page 201
by Aristophanes - 1864 - 236 pages
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Familiar Quotations: Being an Attempt to Trace to Their Source Passages and ...

John Bartlett - Quotations - 1874 - 798 pages
...That so bedeck'd, ornate, and gay, Comes this way sailing Like a stately ship Of Tarsus, hound for th' isles Of Javan or Gadire, With all her bravery on, and tackle trim, Sails fill'd, and streamers waving, Courted by all the winds that hold them play, An amber scent of odorous...
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Familiar Quotations ...

John Bartlett - Quotations - 1875 - 890 pages
...so bedeck'd, ornate, arid gay, Comes this way sailing Like a stately ship Of Tarsus, bound for th' isles Of Javan or Gadire, With all her bravery on, and tackle trim, Sails fill'd, and streamers waving, Courted by all the winds that hold them play, An amber scent of odorous...
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Transactions of the Devonshire Association for the Advancement of ..., Volume 8

Devonshire Association for the Advancement of Science, Literature and Art - Devon (England) - 1876 - 934 pages
...Dalila ? — ' Bat who is this ? what thing of sea or land t Female of sex it seems, That BO bedeck' d, ornate, and gay Comes this way sailing, Like a stately...Gadire, With all her bravery on, and tackle trim, Sails fill'd and streamers waving, Courted by all the winds that hold them play. \ An amber scent of odorous...
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Robert Herrick: A Biographical & Critical Study

Frederic William Moorman - 1910 - 262 pages
...Arabia. The Herrick-mistress is Milton's Dalila, bearing down upon us like a stately ship of Tarsus : With all her bravery on, and tackle trim, Sails filled, and streamers waving, Courted by all the winds that hold them play ; An amber scent of odorous perfume Her harbinger, a damsel...
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Calendar, Part 3

University of Calcutta - 1911 - 760 pages
...and gay comes this way sailing like a stately ship of Tarsus bound for the isles of Javan or Gadiro with all her bravery on and tackle trim sails filled and streamers waving courted by all the winds that hold them play an amber scent of odorous perfume her harbinger a damsel...
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Psychology: A New System, Based on the Study of the Fundamental ..., Volume 1

Arthur Lynch - Psychology - 1912 - 416 pages
...who is This, what thing of sea or land ? Female of sex it seems, That so bedecked, ornate, and gay, t Comes this way sailing Like a stately ship Of Tarsus,...and tackle trim, Sails filled, and streamers waving, Courted by all the winds that hold them play, An amber scent of odorous perfume Her harbinger, a damsel...
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Das persönliche Geschlecht unpersönlicher Substantive bei John Milton und ...

Adam Reusse - English language - 1913 - 140 pages
...das Maskulinum für geeigneter gehalten. 2. Schiffe und Schiffsteile. Milton. 1. ship, fem. SA. 714: „Like a stately ship „Of Tarsus, bound for the...Gadire, „With all her bravery on, and tackle trim" Ebenso PLst. IX 513 fem. Auch in. der Prosa fem. 1. 84 (47) : — „one (ship) of them escap'd to...
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Selections from the drama

George Alexander Kohut - Bible - 1913 - 728 pages
...That so bedeck'd, ornate, and gay, Comes this way sailing Like a stately ship Of Tarsus, bound for th' isles Of Javan or Gadire, With all her bravery on, and tackle trim, Sails fill'd, and streamers waving, Courted by all the winds that hold them play, An amber scent of odorous...
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Jail Journal: Commenced on Board the "Shearwater" Steamer, in Dublin Bay ...

John Mitchel - Ireland - 1913 - 632 pages
...water that, " kerchiefed in a comely cloud," comes this way sailing like a stately ship of Tarshish, bound for the isles of Javan or Gadire, with all her bravery on. I have visions of crystal brooks, and my ear and brain are filled with the murmuring of the Roe and...
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Flags of the World, Past and Present: Their Story and Associations

William John Gordon - Flags - 1915 - 410 pages
...holding a ragged staffe," and the rest of its length " powdrid full of raggid staves," " A stately ship, With all her bravery on, and tackle trim, Sails filled, and streamers waving." Machyn tells us in his diary for August 3rd, 1553, how " The Queen came riding to London, and so on...
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