 | Devonshire Association for the Advancement of Science, Literature and Art - Devon (England) - 1876 - 938 pages
...this ? what thing of sea or land ? Female of sex it seems, That so bedeck' d, ornate, and gay Cornea this way sailing, Like a stately ship Of Tarsus, bound...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... | |
 | William Swinton - Bible - 1876 - 124 pages
...is now obsolete. Like a stately ship Of Tarsus, bound for the Isles Of Javan or Gadier, Bray. Bruit. With all her bravery on and tackle trim, Sails filled, and streamers waving. MILTON, Samson Agonistes. Bray. Though thou shouldst bray a fool in a mortar, .... yet will not his... | |
 | John Vance Cheney, Sir Charles G. D. Roberts, Charles Francis Richardson, Francis Hovey Stoddard, John Raymond Howard - English poetry - 1904 - 930 pages
...Canto I. LORD BYRON. Hearts of oak are our ships, Hearts of oak are our men. Hearts of Oak. D. QARRICK. Sailing Like a stately ship Of Tarsus, bound for the...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. Samson... | |
 | John Ruskin - 1904 - 834 pages
...<_£fc^-z^u«yL»_c£^' f^^- fr^- "f t+*~<s»-fr ^ A PAGE or THE MS. OF "THE HARBOURS OF ENGLAND" (§ 7) Of Javan or Gadire, With all her bravery on, and tackle trim, Sails filled, and streamers waving." l That description could only have been written in a time of vulgar women and vulgar vessels. The utmost... | |
 | John Milton - 1909 - 476 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...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... | |
 | 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... | |
 | 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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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... 
