| John Milton - 1854 - 534 páginas
...the pole, — directed by the stars at night in their course towards the BOOK II.] PARADISE LOST. 65 Hangs in the clouds, by equinoctial winds Close sailing...bring Their spicy drugs : they on the trading flood 640 Through the wide Ethiopian to the Cape Ply, stemming nightly toward the pole: so seemed Far off... | |
| William Wordsworth - 1854 - 776 páginas
...the mind in its activity, for its own gratification, contemplates them as hanging. " As when far off at Sea a Fleet descried Hangs in the clouds, by equinoctial...Close sailing from Bengala, or the Isles Of Ternate or Tidore, whence Merchants bring Their spicy drugs ; they on the trading flood Through the wide Ethiopian... | |
| 1854 - 750 páginas
...in the clouds, always an impressive object, becomes exquisitely poetic in its associations, when — They on the trading flood, Through the wide Ethiopian...to the Cape, Ply stemming nightly towards the pole. These trade winds are the great evaporating winds of the ocean ; and, as we learn from the investigations... | |
| Arthur Christopher Benson - 1907 - 276 páginas
...said, was a test of poetic instinct. He used to praise Milton's similes, especially As when far off at sea a fleet descried Hangs in the clouds, by equinoctial winds Close sailing from Bcngala— (Bk. ii. 634) saying, " What simile was ever so vast as this ? " As an instance of a liquid... | |
| Alan W. Bellringer, C. B. Jones - 1980 - 176 páginas
...activity, for its own gratification, contemplates them as hanging. 'As when far off at sea a licet descried Hangs in the clouds, by equinoctial winds...Close sailing from Bengala. or the isles Of Ternate or Tidore. whence merchants bring Their spicy drugs: they on the trading flood Through the wide Ethiopian... | |
| Gilbert Highet - 1949 - 802 páginas
...hell (Satan, who later appears as vast as an island mountain) to an entire fleet, which far off at sea Hangs in the clouds, by equinoctial winds Close sailing...the wide Ethiopian to the Cape Ply stemming nightly toward the Pole.54 Several of the most vivid characters of Renaissance epic are imitated from, or partly... | |
| Louis Lohr Martz - 1986 - 388 páginas
...Winds Close sailing from Bengala, or the lles Of Ternate and Tidore, whence Merchants bring Thir spicie Drugs: they on the trading Flood Through the wide Ethiopian to the Cape Ply stemming nightly toward the Pole. [2.636-42] Here again the mention of drugs may seem to suggest a harmful possibility:... | |
| David Quint - 1993 - 448 páginas
...from epic voyager to chance adventurer by depicting Satan as a commercial traveler: As when far off at sea, a fleet descried Hangs in the clouds, by equinoctial...winds Close sailing from Bengala, or the isles Of Temate and Tidore, whence merchants bring Their spicy drugs: they on the trading flood Through the... | |
| William Wordsworth - 1994 - 628 páginas
...the mind in its activity, for its own gratification, contemplates them as hanging. As when far off at Sea a Fleet descried Hangs in the clouds, by equinoctial...Close sailing from Bengala or the Isles Of Ternate or Tydore, whence Merchants bring Their spicy drugs; they on the trading flood Through the wide Ethiopian... | |
| Forest Pyle - 1995 - 240 páginas
...by Wordsworth as a paradigmatic instance of "the full strength of the imagination": As when far off at sea a fleet descried Hangs in the clouds, by equinoctial...Close sailing from Bengala, or the isles Of Ternate or Tidore, whence merchants bring Their spicy drugs; they in the trading flood Through the wide Ethiopian... | |
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