 | Richard Green Moulton - 1899 - 200 sayfa
...a double relation between the things compared : this of itself would be fatal to pictorial effect. I am black — but comely . . . As the tents of Kedar — as the curtains of Solomon. When Virgil has to deal with sunburnt beauty he uses vivid expressions : He's dark; what then? the... | |
 | Samuel Rutherford Crockett - 1904 - 438 sayfa
...burnished sun' ! While a young minister just newly off the irons gave it as his opinion that I was 'dark, but comely as the tents of Kedar, as the curtains of Solomon.' Whereupon I reminded him that the word in the Bible had used to be 'black.' But he assured me (staking... | |
 | Richard Green Moulton - 1913 - 200 sayfa
...a double relation between the things compared : this of itself would be fatal to pictorial effect. I am black — but comely . . . As the tents of Kedar — as the curtains of Solomon. xxi When Virgil has to deal with sunburnt beauty he uses vivid expressions : He's dark; what then?... | |
 | Clarence Edward Andrews - 1922 - 312 sayfa
...some in vivid magenta and some in bright saffron, caught up in the middle with huge girdles. "They are black but comely, as the tents of Kedar, as the curtains of Solomon." They wear their hair in long braids and have big plugs of silver in one ear, and their names are five... | |
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Maiyotte. who is black, but comely as the tents of Kedar, as the curtains of Solomon, seems to be aware of the fact. 
