The World's Great Classics: OrientalTimothy Dwight, Julian Hawthorne Colonial Press, 1899 Library Committee: Timothy Dwight ... Richard Henry Stoddard, Arthur Richmond Marsh, A.B. [and others] ... Illustrated with nearly two hundred photogravures, etchings, colored plates and full page portraits of great authors. Clarence Cook, art editor. |
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... fell , and the last Sassanian king , Yezdegird III , met his end , these Arabs became nominally supreme . Persia had been conquered - but not the Persian spirit . Even though Turkish speech reigned supreme at court and the Arabic script ...
... fell , and the last Sassanian king , Yezdegird III , met his end , these Arabs became nominally supreme . Persia had been conquered - but not the Persian spirit . Even though Turkish speech reigned supreme at court and the Arabic script ...
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... fell . In his simplicity of heart he says very tenderly of his own work : - " We give advice in its proper place , Spending a lifetime in the task . If it should not touch any one's ear of desire , The messenger told his tale ; it is ...
... fell . In his simplicity of heart he says very tenderly of his own work : - " We give advice in its proper place , Spending a lifetime in the task . If it should not touch any one's ear of desire , The messenger told his tale ; it is ...
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... their utmost strength , Down from his enemy's dragon - grasp soon fell The luckless son of royal Kaiúmers , Vanquished and lifeless . Sad , unhappy fate ! 7 Disheartened by this disastrous event , the army immedi- ately Kaiúmers.
... their utmost strength , Down from his enemy's dragon - grasp soon fell The luckless son of royal Kaiúmers , Vanquished and lifeless . Sad , unhappy fate ! 7 Disheartened by this disastrous event , the army immedi- ately Kaiúmers.
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... fell into the pit , and his legs and arms being broken by the fall , he shortly expired . O righteous Heaven ! that father too , whose ten- derness would not suffer even the winds to blow upon his son too roughly and that son , by the ...
... fell into the pit , and his legs and arms being broken by the fall , he shortly expired . O righteous Heaven ! that father too , whose ten- derness would not suffer even the winds to blow upon his son too roughly and that son , by the ...
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... fell asleep . Zohák , in the meanwhile , had despatched an en- voy , with an escort of troops , to the Khakán of Chín , and at that moment the cavalcade happened to be passing by the tower where Jemshid was reposing . The envoy ...
... fell asleep . Zohák , in the meanwhile , had despatched an en- voy , with an escort of troops , to the Khakán of Chín , and at that moment the cavalcade happened to be passing by the tower where Jemshid was reposing . The envoy ...
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Afrásiyáb Arjásp arms army arrows art thou Balkh Barzú Bashútan battle beautiful behold blood brave brother Byzun champion charms chiefs command crown damsel Dárá Dáráb daughter death Demon dervishes dreadful dust earth elephant enemy eyes fate father fell Ferámurz Feridún fight Firdusi Fríburz Gersiwaz grief ground Gúdarz Gushtásp Háfiz hand head heard heart Heaven heroes horse Húmán Iblis Irán Irij Isfendiyár javelin Jemshid Kábul Kai-khosráu kamund Káús Khakán Khosráu king kingdom Kurugsar Lohurásp mace Mázinderán mighty Mihráb Minúchihr monarch mother mountain Nauder never night o'er Omar Khayyám Persian Pírán prince Rakush replied returned rose royal Rubáiyát Rúdábeh Rúm Rustem Sa'di Saiáwush Sám saying sent Shiraz Sikander Simurgh Sistán slain smiles Sohráb soon sorrow soul Súdáveh sword thee thine thou art thou hast thought thousand throne told troops Túr Túrán Túránian Tús vengeance warriors whilst wild wine youth Zábul Zál Zohák
Beliebte Passagen
Seite 350 - Come, fill the Cup, and in the fire of Spring Your Winter-garment of Repentance fling; The Bird of Time has but a little way To flutter— and the Bird is on the Wing.
Seite 351 - I SOMETIMES think that never blows so red The Rose as where some buried Caesar bled; That every Hyacinth the Garden wears Dropt in her Lap from some once lovely Head.
Seite 350 - Some for the Glories of This World; and some Sigh for the Prophet's Paradise to come; Ah, take the Cash, and let the Credit go, Nor heed the rumble of a distant Drum! XIV Look to the blowing Rose about us —
Seite 357 - The Moving Finger writes ; and having writ, Moves on : nor all your Piety nor Wit Shall lure it back to cancel half a Line, Nor all your Tears wash out a Word of it.
Seite 355 - A Moment's Halt — a momentary taste Of BEING from the Well amid the Waste — And Lo! — the phantom Caravan has reach'd The NOTHING it set out from — Oh, make haste!
Seite 352 - There was the door to which I found no key, There was the veil through which I could not see; Some little talk awhile of ME and THEE There was — and then no more of THEE and ME.
Seite 351 - Ah, my Beloved, fill the Cup that clears TO-DAY of past Regrets and Future Fears : To-morrow! — Why, To-morrow I may be Myself with Yesterday's Sev'n thousand Years.
Seite 355 - You know, my Friends, with what a brave Carouse I made a Second Marriage in my house ; Divorced old barren Reason from my Bed, And took the Daughter of the Vine to Spouse. LVI For 'Is' and 'IS-NOT' though with Rule and Line, And 'UP-AND-DOWN...
Seite 360 - And much as Wine has play'd the Infidel, And robb'd me of my Robe of Honour — Well, I wonder often what the Vintners buy One half so precious as the stuff they sell.
Seite 357 - I sent my Soul through the Invisible, Some letter of that After-life to spell: And by and by my Soul return'd to me, And answered, "I Myself am Heav'n and Hell...