The Hindee Moral Preceptor: Or, Rudimental Principles of Persian Grammar, as the Hindoostanee Scholars' Shortest Road to the Persian Language, Or Vice Versa; Rendered as Plain and Easy as Possible, Through the Medium of Sixty Exercises in Prose and Verse; Including the Celebrated Pundnamu, Or, Ethics of Shuekh Suudee

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Black, Kingsbury, Parbury and Allen, 1821 - 349 Seiten
 

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Seite xi - Immodest words admit of no defence; For want of decency is want of sense.
Seite 122 - Whence contest thou, and whither dost thou go? To kill, unfeeling, with thy form divine. In flowery meadows, if thou heedless roam, Each fond narcissus lifts its eyes to view, Thy mouth more luscious than the honeycomb, Or virgin rose-buds set with pearly dew. Like some keen fowler, here you plant a snare, And wanton there, with kisses raise a flame ; Then with portentous glance thy bows prepare ; Hold, archer ! say, what means this cruel aim ? Thy jetty eye-brows lunar crescents seem In beauteous...
Seite 57 - HT bhar, adj . Full, as much as, as far as, up to, whole, all, bulk, size, every, each.
Seite 67 - Were heaven's bright spheres placed in the miser's hands, To roll obsequious at his high commands ; If all the wealth of Croesus were his own, Or this huge globe became the wretch's throne ; Fortune, his slave, could not produce one claim, To crown her lord with Fame's exalted name. What are their hoards of gold but dross the whole, Who lack that glowing mine, a feeling soul ? Poor sordid worms may crawl for years in pain, By land or sea, and look to Heaven in vain. Religion says : ' Sure nought...
Seite 75 - As storms destroy bright autumn's cheerful robe, So foul injustice desolates the globe ; Such ruthless kings as by oppression reign, Their empire's crescents prematurely wane. Crush not the man, whose hopes on you depend, Ah, think betimes...
Seite 122 - ... raise a flame ; then with portentous glance thy bows prepare ; hold archer, say, what means this cruel aim ? thy jetty eye-brows lunar crescents seem, in beauteous arches o'er bright stars to bend, whence rays like fatal arrows swiftly gleam ; ah ! spare me now, and to my prayer attend...
Seite 121 - Say, blooming maid, with bosom fair as snow, High o'er our heads like some majestic pine, Whence earnest thou, and whither dost thou go, To kill unfeeling with thy form divine? In flowery meadows, if thou heedless roam, Each fond narcissus lifts its eyes to view Thy mouth more luscious than the honeycomb, Or virgin rosebuds set with pearly dew. Like some keen fowler here you plant a snare, Then with portentous glance thy bows prepare. Thy jetty eyebrows...
Seite 89 - GRAMMAR. 89 • • welcome its waters ! as an angel fair, thrice blessed ! this antidote to worldly care, peace to the saints ! who, warm in pious zeal, glow with each wish for man's eternal weal, all hail ! to...
Seite 89 - Ï the milk of human nature in each vein, [strain.) • and friends to serve, who every nerve would] joy to departing spirits on the wing, who panting rise to join their parent spring, and burst with rapture from this mortal cell, with light and truth through endless time to dwell.

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