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Side xxx
... called ' Mantik et Teyr , the Logic of Birds . ' In this the feathered creatures are made to contend in a curious way on the causes of existence , and the Source of Truth . Hudhud , ' the All- Knowing magical bird of Solomon , is ...
... called ' Mantik et Teyr , the Logic of Birds . ' In this the feathered creatures are made to contend in a curious way on the causes of existence , and the Source of Truth . Hudhud , ' the All- Knowing magical bird of Solomon , is ...
Side 5
... called from Jalal - u - din , one of the king's names ) -a computation of time , ' says Gibbon , which surpasses the Julian , and approaches the accuracy of the Gregorian style . ' He is also the author of some astronomical tables ...
... called from Jalal - u - din , one of the king's names ) -a computation of time , ' says Gibbon , which surpasses the Julian , and approaches the accuracy of the Gregorian style . ' He is also the author of some astronomical tables ...
Side 11
... called ) are independent Stan- zas , consisting each of four Lines of equal , though varied , Prosody ; sometimes all rhyming , but oftener ( as here imitated ) the third line a blank . Sometimes as in the Greek Alcaic , where the ...
... called ) are independent Stan- zas , consisting each of four Lines of equal , though varied , Prosody ; sometimes all rhyming , but oftener ( as here imitated ) the third line a blank . Sometimes as in the Greek Alcaic , where the ...
Side 82
... called him the ' ALLEGORY , ' with a long white beard- rare Appendage in those days - and a Face the colour of which seemed to have been baked in , like the Faces one used to see on Earthenware Jugs . In our Country - dialect Earth ...
... called him the ' ALLEGORY , ' with a long white beard- rare Appendage in those days - and a Face the colour of which seemed to have been baked in , like the Faces one used to see on Earthenware Jugs . In our Country - dialect Earth ...
Side 97
... called JÁMÍ in the Book of Song . " 1 He was celebrated afterwards in other Oriental Titles- " Lord of Poets " - " Elephant of Wisdom , " & c . , but latterly liked to call himself " The Ancient of Herát , " where he mainly resided ...
... called JÁMÍ in the Book of Song . " 1 He was celebrated afterwards in other Oriental Titles- " Lord of Poets " - " Elephant of Wisdom , " & c . , but latterly liked to call himself " The Ancient of Herát , " where he mainly resided ...
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ABSÁL Æsop AGAMEMNON Argos Bacon Baghdad beauty better blood blow breath call'd called Carlyle CASSANDRA CHIG Chivalry CHORUS clay CLYTEMNESTRA Crabbe dark Divine Doctor doth drink Dust Earth Euphranor Ev'n eyes Fate Father Fitzgerald friends genius Glory Gods Goethe Háfiz hand head heart Heaven Honour human Jámí King Lexilogus light lips live look Lord Lycion Malik Shah man's matter Menelaus mind Moon Moral Muezzin Naishápúr nature never Nicolas night Nishapur Omar Khayyám once Pantheism passion perhaps Persian Phidippus Plato Poems Poet Poet's Polonius poor Priam Quatrain remember rose Rubáiyát SALÁMÁN says scarce SHAH Song Soul Stanza story Súfi Sultan suppose sweet tell thee thine things thou thought Throne thyself tion tomb Troy true truth turn'd verse Whinfield Wine wise woman young Youth Zeus
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Side 59 - With Earth's first Clay They did the Last Man knead, And there of the Last Harvest sow'd the Seed: And the first Morning of Creation wrote What the Last Dawn of Reckoning shall read.
Side 434 - ... certain it is that, whosoever hath his mind fraught with many thoughts, his wits and understanding do clarify and break up in the communicating and discoursing with another: he tosseth his thoughts more easily ; he marshalleth them more orderly; he seeth how they look when they are turned into words: finally, he waxeth wiser than himself; and that more by an hour's discourse than by a day's meditation.
Side 73 - Ah Love! could you and I with Him conspire To grasp this sorry Scheme of Things entire, Would not we shatter it to bits — and then Re-mould it nearer to the Heart's Desire!
Side 48 - 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 t he Vine to Spouse.
Side 20 - Awake! for morning in the bowl of night Has flung the stone that puts the stars to flight: And lo! the hunter of the east has caught The sultan's turret in a noose of light.
Side 76 - The seasons alter : hoary-headed frosts Fall in the fresh lap of the crimson rose, And on old Hiems' thin and icy crown An odorous chaplet of sweet summer buds Is, as in mockery, set.
Side 362 - Plain living and high thinking are no more : The homely beauty of the good old cause Is gone ; our peace, our fearful innocence, And pure religion breathing household laws...
Side 33 - Ah, make the most of what we yet may spend, Before we too into the Dust descend; Dust into Dust, and under Dust to lie, Sans Wine, sans Song, sans Singer, and — sans End!
Side 429 - A strange thing, that that part of an orator which is but superficial, and rather the virtue of a player, should be placed so high above those other noble parts of invention, elocution and the rest; nay almost alone, as if it were all in all. But the reason is plain. There is in human nature generally more of the fool than of the wise; and therefore those faculties by which the foolish part of men's minds is taken are most potent.
Side 410 - Studies serve for delight, for ornament, and for ability. Their chief use for delight, is in privateness and retiring ; for ornament, is in discourse; and for ability, is in the judgment and disposition of business.