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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... prepared in the neo - Persian . And then , to complete the tale , in 980 a certain Zoroastrian whose name was Dakiki versified a thousand lines of this neo - Persian Book of Kings . In this very city of Tus , Abul Kasim Mansur ( or ...
... prepared in the neo - Persian . And then , to complete the tale , in 980 a certain Zoroastrian whose name was Dakiki versified a thousand lines of this neo - Persian Book of Kings . In this very city of Tus , Abul Kasim Mansur ( or ...
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... prepared for Zohák the most delicious and savory food imaginable ; for in those days bread and fruit only were the usual articles of food . Iblis himself was the original inventor of the cooking art . Zohák was delighted with the dishes ...
... prepared for Zohák the most delicious and savory food imaginable ; for in those days bread and fruit only were the usual articles of food . Iblis himself was the original inventor of the cooking art . Zohák was delighted with the dishes ...
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... prepared . At that period there lived a man named Kavah , a black- smith , remarkably strong and brave , and who had a large family . Upon the day on which it fell to the lot of two of his children to be killed to feed the serpents , he ...
... prepared . At that period there lived a man named Kavah , a black- smith , remarkably strong and brave , and who had a large family . Upon the day on which it fell to the lot of two of his children to be killed to feed the serpents , he ...
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... preparing for war . " He then wrote a letter to his sons , in which he said : " Your younger brother considers your friendship and esteem of more consequence to him than his crown and throne . He has ban- ished from his heart every ...
... preparing for war . " He then wrote a letter to his sons , in which he said : " Your younger brother considers your friendship and esteem of more consequence to him than his crown and throne . He has ban- ished from his heart every ...
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... prepared a magnificent re- ception for his son . The period of his return had arrived , and he was in anxious expectation of seeing him , when suddenly he received intelligence that Irij had been put to death by his brothers . The ...
... prepared a magnificent re- ception for his son . The period of his return had arrived , and he was in anxious expectation of seeing him , when suddenly he received intelligence that Irij had been put to death by his brothers . The ...
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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...