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" As when far off at sea a fleet descried Hangs in the clouds, by equinoctial winds Close sailing from Bengala, or the isles Of Ternate and Tidore, whence merchants bring Their spicy drugs : they on the trading flood, Through the wide Ethiopian to the Cape,... "
The first four books of Milton's Paradise lost, with notes, by J.R. Major - Page 88
by John Milton - 1835
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A System of Elocution: With Special Reference to Gesture, to the Treatment ...

Andrew Comstock - Elocution - 1855 - 444 pages
...Explores Ais solitary flight : 1 sometimes He scours the righi hand coast, | sometimes the left; i Now shaves with level wing the deep, | then soars Up to the fiery concave I towering high. | As when far off at sea a fieet descried | Hangs in the clouds, I by equinoctial...
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The Criterion; art, science and literature, Volume 1

1856 - 430 pages
...equally good translation. That it ia a. better word in this place, see Milton : 90 THE CRITERION. 91 "As when far off at sea a fleet descried, Hangs in the clouils." It is to be noted, of this particular passage, as of the whole poem, that the proof of plagiarism...
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The Poetical Works of John Milton

John Milton - 1857 - 664 pages
...adversary of God and man, Satan, with thoughts inflamed of highest design, Puts on swift wings, and toward the gates of Hell Explores his solitary flight: sometimes...then soars Up to the fiery concave towering high. As when far off at sea a fleet descried Hangs in the clouds, by equinoctial winds Close sailing from...
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The Central literary magazine, Volume 4

Birmingham central literary assoc - 1879 - 456 pages
...monarchal pride, Conscious of highest worth," II. 420. " With thoughts inflamed of highest design, Puts on swift wings, and towards the gates of hell Explores his solitary flight ; " II. 630. how he encounters his daughter Sin, " the Portress of Hell " with her progeny Death and...
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Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 72

England - 1852 - 798 pages
...seemed alone the antagonist of Heaven," stands or moves alone. " Meantime the adversary of God and man Puts on swift wings, and towards the gates of Hell Explores his solitary flight." I suppose, sir, there may be several reasons. One is, that it is the business of Poetry lojind representative...
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Merriam-Webster's Dictionary of Synonyms: A Dictionary of Discriminated ...

Merriam-Webster, Inc - Antonyms - 1984 - 950 pages
...implication of abrasion but rather in some contexts suggests a dangerous approach or a narrow escape <now shaves with level wing the deep, then soars up to the fiery concave— Milton) <three hansoms shaved him by an inch—Barni-) Skim (see also FLY) also implies a light touch...
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Beautiful Sublime: The Making of ‘Paradise Lost,’ 1701-1734

Leslie Moore - Poetry - 1990 - 256 pages
...with her plumes winnows the buxom air (to use Milton's style.) Sometimes She scours the right-hand coast, sometimes the left, Now shaves with level wing the deep, then soars Up to the empyraean tow'ring high. (WJR, 252, my emphasis) The movement of the Satanic character appears to be...
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Epic and Empire: Politics and Generic Form from Virgil to Milton

David Quint - Literary Criticism - 1993 - 448 pages
...reduction of Satan 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...
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Selected Poems

William Wordsworth - Fiction - 1994 - 628 pages
...such an appearance, 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 winds Close sailing from Bengala or the Isles Of Ternate or Tydore, whence Merchants...
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The Ideology of Imagination: Subject and Society in the Discourse of Romanticism

Forest Pyle - Literary Criticism - 1995 - 240 pages
...Paradise Lost cited 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 winds Close sailing from Bengala, or the isles Of Ternate or Tidore, whence merchants...
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