 | Henry Edward Krehbiel - Operas - 1917 - 712 pages
...her in this relation. St. Chrysostom set the fashion and Milton followed it : — But who is this ? What thing of sea or land — Female of sex it seems — That, so bedeck'd, ornate and gay Comes this way sailing Like a stately ship Of Tarsus, bound for the isles... | |
 | John Milton - English literature - 1925 - 442 pages
...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 of sex it seems, That so bedeckt, ornate, and gay, Comes this way sailing Like a stately Ship Of Tarsus, bound for th' Isles... | |
 | Boston Symphony Orchestra - 1913 - 1308 pages
...whose domestic experience was sour, accepted the theory of Chrysostom most cheerfully. But who is this? What thing of sea or land? Female of sex it seems. That so bedeck'd, ornate and gay, Comes this way sailing Like a stately ship Of Tarsus, bound for th' isles... | |
 | Literature - 1918 - 916 pages
...in the other direction compare the august entrance of Dalila in "Samson Agonistes": But who is this, what thing of Sea or Land?— Female of sex it seems,...and gay, Comes this way, sailing Like a stately ship With all her bravery on, and tackle trim, Sails filled, and streamers waving, — compare this, we... | |
 | Owen Barfield - Language Arts & Disciplines - 1973 - 244 pages
...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... | |
 | Margaret W. Ferguson, Maureen Quilligan, Nancy Vickers - History - 1986 - 464 pages
...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... | |
 | David George Pitt - Tales - 1990 - 196 pages
...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,... | |
 | Achsah Guibbory - Literary Criticism - 2006 - 304 pages
...description of Dalila evokes the conventional association of idolatry with seduction. 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... | |
 | Henry Coleman Folkard - Transportation - 2000 - 586 pages
...END OK PABT VI. 34!) PART VIL SAILING CHARIOTS AND ICE YACHTS. SAILING CHABIGTS ' But who is this, what thing of sea or land ? Female of sex it seems, That tO bedeekt, ornate, and gay, Coniea this way, tailing Like a stateIy ship Of Tarsus, bound for th'... | |
 | Samuel Taylor Coleridge - 2001 - 528 pages
...hand soft touching, whisper'd thus : Awake. My fairest," &c. — Book v. ver. 8. t " But who is this, what thing of sea or land ? Female of sex it seems, That so bedeck'd, ornate, and gay, Comes this way sailing Like a stately ship Of Tarsus, bound for the isles... | |
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Tarsus, bound for the 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... 
