| Edward Bysshe - 1710 - 620 psl.
...Proud of her gawdy Trim, comes this Way failing, With all her Brav'ry on, and Tackle trim, Sails fiU'd, and Streamers waving. Courted by all the Winds that Hold them Play. Milt. This floating Ram did bear his Horns above, • •* AH L All ty'd with Ribbands, ruffling in... | |
| William Shakespeare - 1785 - 456 psl.
...Comes this way sailing " Like a stately ship " Of Tarsus, bound for the isles " Of Javan cr Gadier, " With all her bravery on, and tackle trim, " Sails...waving, " Courted by all the winds that hold them play." This was an image familiar with the poets of that time. Thus Bqaumont and Fletcher, in their play of... | |
| John Bell - 1788 - 628 psl.
...Tarsus, bound for th' iles 715 Of Javan or Gadire With all her bravery on, and tackle trim, Sails lili'd, and streamers waving, Courted by all the winds that hold them play, An amber sent of odorous perfume 7z0 Her harbinger, a damsel train behind ; Volume III. K Some rich Philistian... | |
| Samuel Johnson - 1805 - 924 psl.
...a noble vessel. Shatj^t-^t, A stately ship With all her bravery err, and tac/tlc trim, Sjils fAYd, and streamers waving, Courted by all the winds that hold them play. Miltn. As for tacHc, the Bffiotians invented the air; Dxdalus, and hit son Icarus, the masts and sails.... | |
| John Milton - 1807 - 434 psl.
...bedeck'd, ornate and gay, Comes this way sailing Like a stately ship Of Tarsus, bound for th' iles Of Javan or Gadire With all her bravery on, and tackle...waving, Courted by all the winds that hold them play, An amber scent of odorous perfume 720 Her jlarbiuger, a damsel train behind ; Some rich Philutian matron... | |
| William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray (IV), Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle) - 1834 - 558 psl.
...rhythm,, — ' 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...fill'd, and streamers waving, Courted by all the winds tliat hold them play, — An amber scent of odorous perfume Her harbinger, a damsel train behind ?... | |
| Alexander Chalmers - 1810 - 560 psl.
...and gay, Come* this way sailing Like a stately ship Of Tarsus; bound for the i*ta Of Javan or fiadire With all her bravery on, and tackle trim, Sails fill'd,...waving, Courted by all the winds that hold them play, An amber scent of odorons perfonie Her harb'nger, a damsel train behind ; Some lieh Philistian matron... | |
| William Hayley - 1810 - 418 psl.
...bound for the isles Of Javan or Gadire With all her bravery on, aud tackle trim, Sails fill'd, aud streamers waving, Courted by all the winds that hold them play, An amber scent of ordorous perfume Her harbinger, a damsel train behind; Some rich Philistian matron she... | |
| John Milton - 1813 - 270 psl.
...ornate, and gay, Comes this way sailing Like a stately ship Of Tarsus, bound for th' isles 715 Of Javanor Gadire, With all her bravery on, and tackle trim, Sails fill'd, and streamers waving, Courted by alt the winds that hold them play, Ao amber scent of odorous perfume 7!^0 Her harbinger, a damsel train... | |
| John Aikin - 1820 - 832 psl.
...gay, Comes this way sailing Like a stately ship Of Tarsus, bound for the isles Of Javan or Gait! re h one system can they all be blest. amber scent of odorous perfume Her harbinger, a damsel train behind ; Some rich Philistian matron she... | |
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