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 201by Aristophanes - 1864 - 236 pagesFull view - About this book
| 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... | |
| 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... | |
| 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... | |
| 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... | |
| 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... | |
| 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... | |
| 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... | |
| 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... | |
| 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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