 | David Loewenstein - 2004 - 160 Seiten
...Equinoctial Winds Close sailing from Rengala, or the Isles Of Ternate and Tidore, whence Merchants bring Thir spicy Drugs: they on the Trading Flood Through the wide Ethiopian to the Cape Ply stemming nightly toward the Pole. (2.6 36-42 ) Besides evoking a sense of vast distance (a common effect in Paradise... | |
 | Timothy Morton - 2006 - 304 Seiten
...sails south-west towards the Cape of Good Hope. Here Milton uses the trade winds topos: As when far off at sea a fleet descried Hangs in the clouds, by equinoctial...the wide Ethiopian to the Cape Ply stemming nightly toward the pole. (11.636-42) Some editors explain 'the trading flood' as '"where the trade winds blow"'.92... | |
 | Balachandra Rajan, Joseph A. Wittreich - 2006 - 209 Seiten
...presenting India as one of the primary sites of infernality: As when far off at Sea a Fleet descri'd Hangs in the Clouds, by Equinoctial Winds Close sailing...the wide Ethiopian to the Cape Ply stemming nightly toward the Pole. So seem'd Far off the flying Fiend. (PL 2.636-43) Ternate and Tidore are Spice Islands... | |
 | Grace Tiffany - 2006 - 236 Seiten
...his own voyage of discovery through Hell, the soaring fiend resembles "a fleet descried" hanging on the clouds, by equinoctial winds Close sailing from...the wide Ethiopian to the Cape Ply stemming nightly toward the pool. So seemed Far off the flying Fiend. . . . (2.636-42) His flight upward from Hell to... | |
 | Robert Markley - 2006 - 327 Seiten
...Equinotical^ff'm&s, Close sailing from Bengala, or the Isles of Of Ternate and Tidore, whence Merchants bring Thir spicy Drugs: they on the Trading Flood Through the wide Ethiopian to the Cape Ply stemming nightly toward the Pole. So seem'd Far off the flying Fiend[.] (n, 636—43) Balachandra Rajan is right to... | |
 | Elaine L. Robinson - 2006 - 253 Seiten
...the Deep, then soars Up to the fiery conclave tow'ring high. As when far off at Sea a Fleet descri'd Hangs in the Clouds, by "Equinoctial" Winds Close sailing from "Bengala," or the Isles Of "Ternare" and "Tidore," whence Merchants bring Thir spicy Drugs: they on the Trading Flood Through... | |
 | Douglas A. Brooks - 2008 - 17 Seiten
...of merchant ships sailing westward across the Indian Ocean: As when far off at Sea a Fleet descri'd Hangs in the Clouds, by Equinoctial Winds Close sailing...the wide Ethiopian to the Cape Ply stemming nightly toward the Pole. So seem'd Far off the flying Fiend. (2.636-43) Balachandra Rajan aptly observes that... | |
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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... 
