...soul. The zephyrs in this and the four preceding lines arc evidently copied from these fine verses : now gentle gales, Fanning their odoriferous wings,...and whisper whence they stole Those balmy spoils. Milton, as Warton suggests, here remembered his Elegy on Bishop Andreses, once master of Pembroke College,...

...[a] Milton, in his Paradise Lost> B. IV- ha* very successfully introduced the same image : " — — now gentle gales, Fanning their odoriferous wings.,...and whisper whence they stole Those balmy spoils." STEEV, Receiveth as the sea, nought enters there, Of what validity and pitch soever, But falls into...

...and powerful, and reaches so far, as to remind one of the famous picture in Paradise Lost : — ' ' As when to them who sail Beyond the Cape of Hope,...north-east winds blow Sabean odours from the spicy shore Of Araby the blest ; with such delay Well pleased they slack their course, and many a league, C'heer'd...

...his beams Than in fair evening cloud, or humid bow, When God had showVd the earth ; so lovely seem'd That landscape : and of pure now purer air Meets his...inspires Vernal delight and joy, able to drive All s .dness but despair ; now gentle gales Fanning their odoriferous wings, dispense Native perfumes,...

...extensive and delightful, the region more tranquil, the atmosphere he breathes more aethereal: 453 From pure now purer air Meets his approach, and to the...Vernal delight and joy, able to drive All sadness*. The progress of a Christian is not only " from strength to strength," but from anxiety to a peaceful...

...his beams Than in fair evening cloud, or humid bow, When God bad shower'd the earth; so lovely seem'd That landscape: and of pure now purer air Meets his...Mozambic, off at sea north-east winds blow Sabean odour from the spicy shore Of Araby the blest; with such delay Well-pleas'd they slack their course,...

...the banks of the canal, from the perfumes exhaled by the gardens with which these are surrounded. " As when to them who sail Beyond the Cape of Hope,...north-east winds blow Sabean odours from the spicy shore Of Araby the blest ; with such delay Well pleased, they slack their course, and many a league, Cheered...

...revert for a moment to Milton, the following similitude will appear very remarkable. Book IV. v. 159. As when to them who sail Beyond the Cape of Hope,...north-east winds blow Sabean odours from the spicy shore Of Araby the blest, with such delay Well pleased they slack their course, and many a league Cheered...

...revert for a moment to Milton, the following similitude will appear very remarkable. Book IV. v. 159. As when to them who sail Beyond the Cape of Hope, and now are past Mozambic, oft' at sea north-east winds blow Sabean odours from the spicy shore Of Araby the blest, with such...

...backwards shrunk appalled. Even Milton has indulged himself in the same license of expression— .... As when to them who sail Beyond the Cape of Hope,...are past Mozambic, off at sea north-east winds blow Sabtean odour from the spicy shore Of Araby the blessed; with such delay Well pleased, they slack their...