 | 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... | |
 | John Milton - 1753 - 356 psl.
...bedeck'd, ornate, and gay, Monies this way failing Like a ftately mip 3f Tarfes, bound for th* fles 71 j Of Javan or Gadire With all her bravery on, and tackle trim, Sails fill'd, and ftreamers waving, Courted by all the winds that hold tfeem play, An amber fent of odorous... | |
 | John Milton - 1759 - 414 psl.
...bedeck'd, ornate, and gay, Comes this way failing Like a ftately fhip Of Tarfus, bound for th' iles 715 Of Javan or Gadire With all her bravery on, and tackle trim, Sails fill'd, and ftreamers waving, Courted by all the winds that hold them play, An amber fent of odorous... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1779 - 320 psl.
...ornate, and gay, Comet Comes this way failing Like a ftately mip Of Tarfus, bound for th' lies 715 Of Javan or Gadire With all her bravery on, and tackle trim, Sails fill'd, and ftreamers waving, Courted by all the winds that hold them play, An amber fent of odorous... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1779 - 320 psl.
...ornate, and gay, Comet Comes this way failing Like a ftately fhip Of Tarfus, bound for th' iles 715 Gf Javan or Gadire With all her bravery on, and tackle trim, Sails fill'd, and ftreamers waving, Courted by all the winds that hold them play, An amber fent of odorous... | |
 | John Milton - 1785 - 360 psl.
...bedeck'd, ornate, and gay, Comes this way failing Like a ftately fhip Of Tarfus, bound for th' iles Of Javan or Gadire With all her bravery on, and tackle trim, Sails fill'd, and ftreamers waving, Courted by all the winds that hold them play, An amber fent of odorous... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1785 - 456 psl.
...bound for the isles " Of Javan cr Gadier, " With all her bravery on, and tackle trim, " Sails fill'd, and streamers 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.
...bedeck'd, ornate, and gay, Comes this way sailing Like a stately ship Of 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... | |
 | English poets - 1790 - 342 psl.
...bedeck'd, ornate, and gay, Comes this way failing Like a ftately fhip Of Tarfus, bound For th' iles 715 Of Javan or Gadire With all her bravery on, and tackle trim, Sails fill'd, and ftreamers waving, Courted by all the winds that hold them play, An amber fcent of odorous... | |
 | 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.... | |
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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... 
