The Living Age, Bind 112E. Littell & Company, 1872 |
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Side 6
... women and children of his family were taken in chains to the Caliph Yezid at Damascus . Gibbon concludes the story thus : " In a distant age and climate , the tragic scene of the death of Hussein will awaken the sympathy of the coldest ...
... women and children of his family were taken in chains to the Caliph Yezid at Damascus . Gibbon concludes the story thus : " In a distant age and climate , the tragic scene of the death of Hussein will awaken the sympathy of the coldest ...
Side 8
... women of the Imam's family whom they are ill - using , burst into tears and repeat their part with sobs . The public is neither surprised nor displeased at this ; on the contrary , it beats its breast at the sight , throws up its arms ...
... women of the Imam's family whom they are ill - using , burst into tears and repeat their part with sobs . The public is neither surprised nor displeased at this ; on the contrary , it beats its breast at the sight , throws up its arms ...
Side 10
... women and children of the holy family , Omm - Leyla , Hussein's wife , the Persian princess , the last child of Yezdejerd the last of the Sassanides ; Zeyneb , Hussein's sister , the offspring , like himself , of Ali and Fatima , and ...
... women and children of the holy family , Omm - Leyla , Hussein's wife , the Persian princess , the last child of Yezdejerd the last of the Sassanides ; Zeyneb , Hussein's sister , the offspring , like himself , of Ali and Fatima , and ...
Side 11
... women of the harem , Kassem . Consider within thyself for a little ; here thou sit- test , and presently thou wilt see the body of Hussein , that body like a flower , torn by arrows and lances like thorns , Kassem . Thou sawest Ali ...
... women of the harem , Kassem . Consider within thyself for a little ; here thou sit- test , and presently thou wilt see the body of Hussein , that body like a flower , torn by arrows and lances like thorns , Kassem . Thou sawest Ali ...
Side 13
... women , all come upon the sakou , press round Hussein , load him with honours . The Christian damsel wakes , and embraces Islam , the Islam of the sect of the Shiahs . These are the martyrs of Kerbela ; and these are the sufferings ...
... women , all come upon the sakou , press round Hussein , load him with honours . The Christian damsel wakes , and embraces Islam , the Islam of the sect of the Shiahs . These are the martyrs of Kerbela ; and these are the sufferings ...
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Side 71 - Like one, that on a lonesome road Doth walk in fear and dread, And having once turned round walks on, And turns no more his head ; Because he knows, a frightful fiend Doth close behind him tread.
Side 141 - ... because he who has received this true education of the inner being will most shrewdly perceive omissions or faults in art and nature, and with a true taste, while he praises and rejoices over, and receives into his soul the good, and becomes noble and good, he will justly blame and hate the bad, now in the days of his youth, even before he is able to know the reason of the thing ; and when reason comes he will recognize and salute her as a friend with whom his education has made him long familiar.
Side 286 - Like the vase, in which roses have once been distilled — You may break, you may shatter the vase if you will. But the scent of the roses will hang round it still.
Side 75 - Their authors are of the same level, fit to represent them on a mountebank's stage, or to be masters of the ceremonies in a beargarden : yet these are they who have the most admirers. But it often happens, to their mortification, that as their readers improve their stock of sense, (as they may by...
Side 50 - Free love — free field — we love but while we may: The woods are hush'd, their music is no more: The leaf is dead, the yearning past away: New leaf, new life — the days of frost are o'er: New life, new love to suit the newer day: New loves are sweet as those that went before: Free love, — free field — we love but while we may.
Side 412 - He went away again the second time, and prayed, saying, O my Father, if this cup may not pass away from me, except I drink it, thy will be done.
Side 258 - Strange to think by the way, Whatever there is to know, That shall we know one day.
Side 70 - Add that whate'er of terror or of love Or beauty, Nature's daily face put on From transitory passion, unto this I was as sensitive as waters are To the sky's influence in a kindred mood Of passion ; was obedient as a lute That waits upon the touches of the wind.
Side 381 - FROM Greenland's icy mountains, From India's coral strand ; "Where Afric's sunny fountains Roll down their golden sand ; From many an ancient river, From many a palmy plain. They call us' to deliver Their land from error's chain.
Side 411 - They, looking back, all the eastern side beheld Of Paradise, so late their happy seat, Waved over by that flaming brand; the gate With dreadful faces thronged and fiery arms. Some natural tears they dropped, but wiped them soon; The world was all before them, where to choose Their place of rest, and Providence their guide.