 | Henry Coppée - 1881 - 522 Seiten
...time, not content to limit its claims to the Peninsula, regales us with the following couplet : — " Do not talk of the Court of Baghdad and its glittering...their manifold advantages ; For there is no spot on earth like Cordova, nor in the whole world men like the Beni Hamdin." 1 Cordova had its Kass;ibah,... | |
 | Joseph Krauskopf - 1886 - 280 Seiten
...praise, thus begins in the sweet tones of the poetic Arabic tongue: "Do not talk of the court of Bagdad and its glittering magnificence. Do not praise Persia...their manifold advantages, For there is no spot on earth like Cordova, Nor in the whole world beauties likes its beauties." To which our guide instantly... | |
 | 1897 - 844 Seiten
...conqueror. An Arab poet has written on Cordova the following distich : "Do not talk of the court of Bagdad and its glittering magnificence ; do not praise Persia...their manifold advantages ; for there is no spot on earth like Cordova, nor in the whole world men like the Beni Hamdin." One believes in the truthfulness... | |
 | Reinhart Pieter Anne Dozy - 1913 - 856 Seiten
...1 Letter from Chasda'i to the King of the Khozars, iu Carmoly, Des Khosan au A"e tieele, p. 37. - " Do not talk of the court of Baghdad and its glittering...their manifold advantages ; for there is no spot on earth like Cordova," sings an Arab poet, q. by Makkart, i. 202 (transl.). 3 Hroswitha : Pass. S. Pelagit,... | |
 | Reinhart Pieter Anne Dozy - 1913 - 820 Seiten
...1 Letter from Chasda1 to the King of the Khozars, in Carmoly, Des Khoxars au Xe siecle, p. 37. 2 " Do not talk of the court of Baghdad and its glittering...China and their manifold advantages ; for there is uo spot on earth like Cordova," sings an Arab poet, q. by Makkar1, i. 202 (transl.). 3 Hroswitha: Pass.... | |
 | Reinhart Pieter Anne Dozy - 1913 - 822 Seiten
...Letter from Chasdai' to the King of the Khozars, in Carmoly, ties Khozart au Xe siecle, p. 37. - " Do not talk of the court of Baghdad and its glittering...and China and their manifold advantages ; for there in no spot on earth like Cordova," sings an Arab poet, q. by Makkari, i. 202 (trausl.). 3 Hroswitha:... | |
 | 1913 - 856 Seiten
...from Chasdai to the King of the Khosars, iu Carmoly, l)c* k- ••-art au .\'e tirclr, p. 37. : " Do not talk of the court of Baghdad and its glittering magnificence; do not praise Persia aud China and their manifold advantages; for there is no spot on earth like Cordova," sings an Arab... | |
 | Reinhart Pieter Anne Dozy - 1913 - 836 Seiten
...Letter from Chasda'i to the King of the Khozars, in Carmoly, I>et Khoxarg au A'e sieclf, p. 37. 2 " Do not talk of the court of Baghdad and its glittering magnificence ; do not praise Persia aud China and their manifold advantages ; for there is no spot on earth like Cordova," sings au Arab... | |
 | Gabriel Bie Ravndal - 1921 - 120 Seiten
...(quoting Chasdar's letter to the king of the Chazars). M Draper. » "Do not talk of the court of Bagdad and its glittering magnificence; do not praise Persia...their manifold advantages; for there is no spot on earth like Cordova," sings an Arab poet. The fame of Cordova penetrated even distant Germany; the Saxon... | |
 | Henry Dwight Sedgwick - 1925 - 462 Seiten
...pearl is to glass beads; and Cordova was "the cupola of Islam." "Do not talk of the court of Bagdad and its glittering magnificence; do not praise Persia...their manifold advantages; for there is no spot on earth like Cordova." Students from all the world flocked thither "to learn the sciences of which she... | |
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Do not talk of the court of Baghdad and its glittering magnificence ; do not praise Persia and China and their manifold advantages ; for there is no spot on earth like Cordova, 
