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" compares Paradise Lost, v. 285 :— " Like Maia's son he stood And shook his plumes, that heavenly fragrance filled The circuit wide." P. 174, 1. 446. Cf. Paradise Lost, iv. 156 :— " Gentle gales Fanning their odoriferous wings, dispense Native perfumes,... "
The Poems of William Cowper - Page 683
by William Cowper - 1905 - 741 pages
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Twelfth night. Winter's tale

William Shakespeare - 1788 - 442 pages
...hearer. WAR.BORTON. Milton, in his Paradise Lest, b.iv. has very successfully introduced the image: " now gentle gales, " Fanning their odoriferous wings, dispense...and whisper whence they •stole .: . • " Those balmy*poils." STEEVENS. ,6. That breathes upon a bank of violets—] Here Shakspere makes the south...
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Paradise Lost: With Notes, Selected from Newton and Others, to ..., Volumes 1-2

John Milton, Samuel Johnson - 1796 - 610 pages
...delight and joy, able to drive 155 All sadness but despair: now gentle gales, Fanning their odorif'rous wings, dispense Native perfumes, and whisper whence they stole Those balmy spoils. As when to them who sail Beyond the Cape of Hope, and now are past 160 Mozambique, off at sea north-east...
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The British Essayists, Volume 11

Alexander Chalmers - English essays - 1808 - 398 pages
...description with a circumstance which is altogo. of fancy: ther new, and imagined with the greatest strength ¿—Like Maia's son he stood, And shook his plumes, that heavenly fragrance flhl'd The circuit wide—.--..-——.' Raphael's reception of the guardian angels, his passing through...
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The British Essayists;: Spectator

Alexander Chalmers - English essays - 1808 - 382 pages
...description with a circumstance which is altogc. ther new, and imagined with the greatest strength of fancy: -Like Maia's son he stood, And shook his plumes, that heavenly fragrance filTd, The circuit wide .' Raphael's reception of the guardian angels, his passing through the wilderness...
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The Works of the English Poets, from Chaucer to Cowper: Including ..., Volume 7

Alexander Chalmers - English poetry - 1810 - 564 pages
...approach, and to the heart inspires Vernal delight and joy, able to drive All sadness but despair : now gentle gales, Fanning their odoriferous wings, dispense...and whisper whence they stole Those balmy spoils. As when to them who sail Beyond the Cape of Hope, and now are past Mozambic, off at sea north-east...
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Elements of Elocution in which the Principles of Reading and Speaking are ...

John Walker - Elocution - 1810 - 402 pages
...necessary to observe, that the verse ought in this case to decide. Thus in the following passage : Fanning their odoriferous wings dispense Native perfumes,...and whisper whence they stole Those balmy spoils. Parad. Lost. B. iv. •». 156. Now gentle gales Hold it a fashion and a toy in blood, For Hamlet and...
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Elements of Elocution: In which the Principles of Reading and Speaking are ...

John Walker - Elocution - 1810 - 394 pages
...necessary to observe, that the verse ought in this case to decide. Thus in the following passage : Fanning their odoriferous wings dispense Native perfumes,...and whisper whence they stole Those balmy spoils. Parad. Lost. B. iv. v. 156. Now gentle gales Hold it a fashion and a toy in blood, For Hamlet and the...
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The British Essayists; with Prefaces, Historical and Biographical,: The ...

Alexander Chalmers - English essays - 1810 - 388 pages
...description with a circumstance which is altogether new, and imagined with the greatest strength of fancy : ' Like Maia's son he stood, And shook his plumes, that heavenly fragrance filTd The circuit uide ' .* Raphael's reception of the guardian angels, his passing through the wilderness...
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Paradise Lost, and the Fragment of a Commentary upon it by William Cowper

William Hayley - Poets, English - 1810 - 484 pages
...in Heaven ; the third his feet Shadow'd from either heel with feather'd mail, Sky-tinctur'd grain. Like Maia's son he stood, And shook his plumes, that heavenly fragrance fill'd The circuit wide. Straight knew him all the bands Of Angels under watch; and to his state, And...
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The Works in Verse and Prose

Robert Treat Paine - American literature - 1812 - 572 pages
...zephyrs in this and the four preceding lines are evidently copied from these fine verses : now penile gales, Fanning their odoriferous wings, dispense Native...and whisper whence they stole Those balmy spoils. Milton, as Warton suggests, here remembered his Elegy on Bishop Andrewes, once master of Pembroke College,...
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